for ROSE’S heavenly CAKES: Golden Lemon Almond Cake (page 37), i spent monday night measuring dry ingredients, tuesday night measuring liquid ingredients, wednesday night baking.  ok, monday and tuesday nights were merely a few minutes, mostly reading and researching about ingredient vendors, sources, history, etc.  however, wednesday night was a few hours!  from 10 pm [...]

planning my take on ROSE’S heavenly CAKES: Golden Lemon Almond Cake (page 37).  this is reportedly Rose’s favorite non-chocolate cake in the book.  after having the honor to bake the wedding cake version for the official book launch date, november 2009, i placed the bundt version on low priority. but when I found out that [...]

not long ago, Ceci from Colombia asked me for something new to impress.  i immediately recommended ROSE’S heavenly CAKES:  Golden Lemon Almond Cake (page 37).  making a GOOD butter cake is a bit challenging in Latin America.  some adaptations need to be made to the local flours, milling, heat treating etc. for beginners, Ceci used [...]