well i ended up making a different cake...

thanks to Renae, i ended up making a "Cinnamon Bun Cake" which was absolutely fabulous! Thankfully i had the insight to package and deliver half of it to a friend before we gorged ourselves on the entire thing, it was THAT good.

I will ask before posting the link to her page...


This morning's venture in baking was Irish Soda Bread...with some delicious low sugar strawberry jam that i canned about 4 weeks ago and a nice steamy pumpkin spice latte. My gods how i love fall flavours. I wish there was a place where it was like fall all year round...

Irish Soda Bread: 1 1/2 cups (195 grams) all-purpose flour 1 1/2 cups (195 grams) whole wheat flour 2 tablespoons (30 grams) granulated white sugar (optional) 2 tablespoons old fashioned rolled oats (optional) 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 1 1/2 cups (360 ml) buttermilk (soured milk) Instructions: Irish Soda Bread: Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) and place the rack in the center of the oven. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. In a large bowl, whisk together the flours, sugar, oats, baking soda, and salt. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and add most of the buttermilk. Using yours hands, or a wooden spoon, mix (adding more buttermilk if necessary) until you have a soft moist dough. Transfer to a lightly floured surface and gentlykneadthe dough into a 7 inch (18 cm) round that is about 1 inch (2.5 cm) thick. Place the round on your prepared baking sheet and then, with a sharp knife or clean kitchen scissors, cut a 1/4 inch deep "X" across the top of the bread. (folklore tells us this is to let the fairies out of the bread) Bake for about 40 -50 minutesor until nicely browned and a toothpick inserted into the center of the bread comes out clean. You can also test that is fully baked by tapping the bottom of the bread - it should sound hollow. Remove from oven. This bread is wonderful when served warm with butter and jam. It also makes great toast. Makes one seven inch (18 cm) round soda bread. and of course a slice warm from the oven with butter...nomnomnom...