Not chocolate

Today's creation was banana layer cake with German icing - which I assumed was German CHOCOLATE icing, but wasn't. There is walnuts and coconut and a bunch of other stuff in there. The cake batter called for sliced bananas but we substituted those with banana puree (?) which explains the bright yellow colour that is not of nature. I love anything banana-flavoured, but would definitely make this with real bananas and - you guessed it - chocolate icing next time.

Carrots & cream cheese

Baking school is back! I forgot to photograph last week's pound cake, but it was pretty simple-looking anyway. In other news, I made marzipan carrots today:


This week: Carrot cake with cream cheese icing. Vegetables and desserts are not two things that go hand-in-hand, if you ask me, but the method used to make this was different from a typical batter-type cake. Eggs and sugar were heated over a double boiler and then whipped. Vanilla, lemon juice and rum was added and then shredded carrots and a mixture of graham crumbs, flour, ground almonds, cinnamon and baking powder were mixed in by hand (meaning I was elbow-deep in goo). I'll probably try a slice tomorrow - it actually smelled amazing coming out of the oven, so maybe I'll be sold on the idea then.