Notes about Recipes in this book

• Coconut buttermilk pound cake

  • jdjd99 on August 16, 2020

    Delicious. Used the second loaf in a tropical trifle and it was perfect.

• Vanilla buttermilk cake with chocolate-buttermilk frosting

  • stef on August 08, 2019

    This is a very nice tender cake. Icing nice and smooth. Baked it in 2 6" pans. Just a nice size for us.

• Grilled browned butter pound cake with berries [browned butter]

  • jdjd99 on September 13, 2020

    To be honest, I didn't grill the slices because it was too hot to turn the stove on again, but I don't think it suffered at all. Very flavorful, moist cake. Put the extra loaf cake in the freezer for maybe a future trifle.

• Orange-cardamom loaves [orange glaze]

  • jdjd99 on October 06, 2020

    Moist, nice citrus flavor. Cardamom was very subtle, in fact I’d probably double it next time.

• Strawberry cream cheese pound cake loaves [strawberry sauce]

  • jdjd99 on July 26, 2020

    Moist, dense cake. Would probably increase the amount of strawberry puree in the cake next time.

• Beaumes-de-Venise cake with apricots

  • apattin on February 09, 2019

    Moist, delicious. Any kind of sweet wine should work. I used a California Moscato wine. I was worried about 1 cup of liquid, but the apricots absorbed just the right amount.

  • sqhall on February 15, 2019

    Delicious, moist buttery cake with plenty of fruit and nice sugary topping. Very good served warm.

• New York style cheesecake

  • jdjd99 on April 23, 2020

    Absolutely delicious. Next time I would increase the amount of crust by 50 or even 100%. The crust on my cake ended up being a little thin it was hard to get the serving knife under the lip of the springform base for serving. Served it with Ina Garten’s raspberry sauce recipe, which was equally delicious.

• Blackberry-almond upside-down cake

  • jdjd99 on July 26, 2020

    One of my favorite cakes. I accidentally left the sliced almonds out of the cake batter, but would do it again the same way because the soft, moist cake texture contests so nicely with the sugary almond topping. Excellent flavor, perfect textures, visually beautiful.