Return of the bake

[petronia]

Made Smitten Kitchen's recent spiced applesauce cake, but instead of cream cheese frosting (which would've just gotten calorie-related complaints), covered the top of the cake with overlapping thin slices of Honey Crisp apple, and covered that with a mix of brown sugar, granulated sugar, and cinnamon. So it looked like... a pie... on top of a cake... ahahaha. Well, it turned out very nicely. Took 45 minutes to finish baking, but there's an extant warning that it's supposed to be a wet cake and also the butter was "light" butter which I'd entirely forgotten I'd purchased simply to see if my ill-formed suspicions were borne out (isn't it a contradiction in terms?). I added a couple of tablespoons extra, and it creamed up well with the brown sugar, but the texture after the eggs went in was extremely alarming. Things panned out in the end, but I wouldn't try the stuff for more delicately-textured desserts.

...Am blogging this because I forgot to bring a slice to work and now I am VERY HUNGRY and have no money. :/

Comments

[dipping_sauce]

WILL THERE BE SOME LEFT FOR WEDNESDAY THIS IS AN IMPORTANT QUESTION

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Probably not, and I might not be coming Wednesday anyway. But this is definitely a cake that could enter the standard repertoire, so I would stay tuned. XD

[dipping_sauce]

;_____; I GUESS I WILL SURVIVE WITHOUT CAKE

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[petronia.livejournal.com]

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[uminohikari.livejournal.com]

W-what kind of alarming?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Gritty, like curdled custard! I'd never seen that happen to batter before, but apparently lesstraveled got that too?

[uminohikari.livejournal.com]

:O :O :O I'm surprised it ended well then...

[lesstraveled.livejournal.com]

I used actual butter and the texture after the eggs was still sort of curdled, so I don't think it was just you/light butter!

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Wow, okay - it seems so weird though, I'd never seen that happen to batter before. XD;

[lesstraveled.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing it was just the graininess of the applesauce that made it look weird? Like, I think apples don't have acid in them so it probably wasn't actual curdling.... I originally hit post comment to say that I love the idea of putting apples/crumb topping on top -- I was going to toss in apple chunks in the batter to make it more substantial before realizing I had no apples, whoops.

[asiamorela.livejournal.com]

That sounds super yummy and makes me want to start baking again! (Really I SHOULD.)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I recommend this recipe if you like apples and cinnamon. :)