to try to explain just how unusual my behavior had become, "Doctor Sara, the prednisone made me buy a giant crockpot and a 32 dollar bundt cake pan. I stayed up cooking and baking till all hours. " Clearly I was whack.
On one such late night was born my version of Lemon Lulu Cake. I wanted to take a pic of the original fat little Lemon Lu when she popped out but I grabbed a fork instead. I made another Lemon Lu last week but the fork won out again. with apologies for the stock photo...
Lemon Lulu Cake
(recipe found in newspaper)
-1 Duncan Hines lemon supreme cake mix plus oil and eggs for mixing
-1 additional egg
-3/4 cup additional oil
-1 box instant lemon pudding
-1 cup confectioner's sugar
-3 Tbsp lemon juice
optional: raspberry extract, raspberries or blackberries
>heat oven to 350 degrees. grease and flour bundt pan.
>follow directions on cake mix box to prepare batter, and add additional egg, oil and pudding mix.
>pour into prepared pan.
>bake 55-60 minutes. allow cake to cool before removing from pan.
>combine sugar and juice to make a glaze; also great with raspberry extract mixed in; drizzle over warm cake.
>garnish with berries.
serves 12.
or 1.
cake meanderings....
the art of playing with your cake, taken to new levels....I Do, I Don't
This is an artist's book which unfolds to become a boardgame. It's created by artist Jen Thomas and available at her shop. Fabricated with handmade cotton/flax paper, screen- and letterpress-printed in a limited edition of 10, it is described as a game that "takes players on a romantic journey through a fairytale courtship..." in which you "wind your way through a few dates from hell before eventually finding Mr. Right and planning the 'perfect' wedding." Although out of my price range, this paper cake is a lulu of a gift for that special bride, especially one who has everything.
Speaking of cake art....
...the maestra to whom we all bow and say, "I AM NOT WORTHY" is Margaret Braun...
"For Michelangelo it was marble, for Giacometti it was bronze. Margaret Braun is a Sugar Artist Extraordinaire" - Food & Wine. She has been called the Gianni Versace of baking, the Decorative Diva of high pastry art, the Picasso of cake decorating. In her work you see inspiration from fashion, architecture, '50's design, symbols and relics from the history of art.
The book Cakewalk is a lush painterly journey through her confections. I often fall asleep with it; if I'm going to have nightsweats, at least let me awaken in sugar-soaked deliria. The drawings and sketches throughout the book are treasures, leaving no doubt she was originally trained as a painter....and the book is a little more affordable than ordering the real thing. Her cakes are said to top out at $25,000.
her work is sick.
...and then there's Colette. my fave book out of several she has published is Colette's Birthday Cakes. check this out, another sick cake:
starry night amen.
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