Starting a new blog

I've enjoyed this blog but I've decided it's time for a change. I am starting a new blog and this one will be more about every day life, the things I am facing, learning, trying to figure out. I am not linking this blog to facebook so if you want to keep up with what's going on with me follow the new blog: Lalashore.blogspot.com
I will still up date this blog as new experiences come up, I will also continue to update the cake blog as I complete more projects.

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Southern Cakes: James McNair's Peanut cake.

This cake was made with Katie in mind. It's a peanut cake, with peanut butter icing. I did change the recipe some. I am not a fan of cream cheese icing so instead of the peanut butter-cream cheese icing I made a peanut butter butter cream icing. The consensus from wiigue was that the icing was great and next time I should fill it with a chocolate filling.

Southern cakes: Lemon-Filled Coconut Cake

For Scott's first pick he went with the Lemon-Filled Coconut cake. This cake took a bit more work than the others I have done from this book so far. I did "cheat" and use pre shredded coconut. I did make the lemon custard and everything else from scratch though.

I am not a fan of lemon filled anything, but the cake it self tasted really good. And once again Wiigue really enjoyed it.

Southern Cakes: Shenandoah Valley Blue Berry Cake

Chris picked out this cake, the Shenandoah Valley Blueberry cake. I would argue that it's more of a sweet bread than cake but that's besides the point. I am not a fan of baked fruit, unless it's pumpkin pie. But, this cake smelled sooooooooo good while it was baking! The recipe was really simple and Chris loved it. Next time I think I will add even more blueberries. So far I am really enjoying this book, so is wiigue as they get to try out all the experiments.

Southern cakes: Mississippi Mud Cake

I am very slowly continuing to bake my way through this book . In our wiigue we are taking turns picking cakes we want to try out. This one was one of the ones Justin wanted to try: The Mississippi Mud Cake.
It's a rich almost brownie like cake with nuts, covered in melted marshmallows then topped with a chocolate icing. I am not a fan of marshmallows so I didn't try this one but everyone who did enjoyed it. I just wish I had a better picture of it.

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