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: Dorie Greenspan's Swedish Visiting Cake



After not loving the last few cakes, I was determined we were going to like this one. And we actually did. It was definitely still on the sweet side but I think the fact that this cake is a lot thinner than most (it has no baking soda or baking powder and was only about an inch high) made us not mind the sweetness as much.

That being said, I'm going to deviate from my original plan to follow the recipes exactly. Starting next week I'm going to decrease the sugar slightly. I think we'll like the cakes that much more if they don't give us a stomach ache after we indulge.

Recipients: We cut into this one not long after I pulled it out of the oven and then picked away at it over the next few days. This one was all us.

Verdict: Good. I'd make this one again, minus some of the sugar.

Up next: Dorie Greenspan's Rum-Drenched Vanilla Cakes