For the next year I am doing a project - a different cake each week
for an entire year - following the book All
Cakes Considered: A Year's Worth of Weekly Recipes Tested, Tasted and
Approved by the Staff of NPR's All Things Considered. You can read
about the start of my project here
and look at each week to date here.
The recipe: Argroves Manor Coffee Cake
Wow, this one was sweet. The actual cake part was good but there was a stewed fruit syrup that you cut through the batter. It should have been great but it was so sweet it actually gave us each a stomachache.
Recipients: No one, thankfully. :) We each ate a couple slices thinking it had to be better than we imagined. Nope, this cake ended up finding the trash bin.
Verdict: Way too sweet. If I do ever make it again I'll use 1/4 of the sugar required for the fruit.
Up next: Miss Saigon Cinnamon Almond Coffee Cake
The recipe: Argroves Manor Coffee Cake
Wow, this one was sweet. The actual cake part was good but there was a stewed fruit syrup that you cut through the batter. It should have been great but it was so sweet it actually gave us each a stomachache.
Recipients: No one, thankfully. :) We each ate a couple slices thinking it had to be better than we imagined. Nope, this cake ended up finding the trash bin.
Verdict: Way too sweet. If I do ever make it again I'll use 1/4 of the sugar required for the fruit.
Up next: Miss Saigon Cinnamon Almond Coffee Cake