County Fair Cake Entry
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Here is a recipe that sounds about right, everyone wants it for their birthday.
Southern Caramel Cake Recipe - Add a Pinch
Southern Caramel Cake Recipe - Add a Pinch
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Here is a recipe that sounds about right, everyone wants it for their birthday.
Southern Caramel Cake Recipe - Add a Pinch
Southern Caramel Cake Recipe - Add a Pinch
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I challenge all of you QB bakers out there to enter a cake in your own, county fair. We're not competing with each other and it would be fun to share tips and ideas. Our fair is in September, as I think that most county fairs are, so there's plenty of time. Go for it!
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I just found a very interesting cake recipe on the Food Network's site: Chocolate Tahini Cake with Tahini Frosting, https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/...osting-5580236
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Thanks, Onebyone. Hummm...those are expensive, gourmet ingredients. Do ya think that they are worth the cost? I'll have to consider those options.
I find vanilla paste at Tuesday Mornings, Khols, Home Goods, etc. for a reasonable price. i would definitely say the Saigon cinnamon is wonderful and worth the cost. One sniff and you are in a bakery. McCormick has a good Saigon cinnamon. It's getting hard to find though. When a store has it I buy four or five jars. I'm on my last jar so have been looking. I make snickerdoodles, cinnamon bread, cinnamon toast, and cinnamon buns so I use a lot of the cinnamon. I tried the Cylon cinnamon but like Saigon the best. And the organic cinnamon does not have the best flavor.
I find vanilla paste at Tuesday Mornings, Khols, Home Goods, etc. for a reasonable price. i would definitely say the Saigon cinnamon is wonderful and worth the cost. One sniff and you are in a bakery. McCormick has a good Saigon cinnamon. It's getting hard to find though. When a store has it I buy four or five jars. I'm on my last jar so have been looking. I make snickerdoodles, cinnamon bread, cinnamon toast, and cinnamon buns so I use a lot of the cinnamon. I tried the Cylon cinnamon but like Saigon the best. And the organic cinnamon does not have the best flavor.
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A couple of years ago, I wanted to enter a Strawberry cake in the fair, so I found a recipe that called for freeze dried strawberry powder that would enhance the flavor. I tried it, but frankly, I thought it tasted awful! It gave the cake a very artificial taste, even though it was just dried strawberries.
I am going to try the vanilla paste and Saigon Cinnamon though. Once, I find the kind of cake that I want to bake, I'll make some trial, miniature cakes, using my smaller, 6" pans. I can make some with special additives and some without and see how they taste. This is going to be a fattening summer.
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Here's some cool tips about making a better cake:
https://www.tasteofhome.com/collecti...-from-grandma/
and
https://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitc...e-better-cakes
https://www.tasteofhome.com/collecti...-from-grandma/
and
https://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitc...e-better-cakes