I cannot frost a cake neatly to save my life. But no matter, the cake was delicious.
This month’s challenge is hosted by Morven over at Food Art and Random Thoughts. Thank you so much for picking this challenge! It’s definitely a keeper. The neat thing with this recipe is that there was plenty of room for creativity. The basic cake itself is lemon flavored with layers of jam and a lemony buttercream icing. The rest was up to us.
I used fresh strawberries and strawberry jam. Since I made this for Easter, I thought a pastel spring-like color theme was in order.
In the end this was dubbed my “Horton Hears a Who” cake because of the colors.
I’ve never read any of Dorie Greenspan’s cookbooks but I’m buying the first copy I can get my hands on. She gives the best advice and little hints and tips throughout the recipe. I’ve made egg white based buttercreams exactly 4 times and none of those recipes have ever warned the baker to expect the icing to curdle and separate.
Even after 10 minutes of mixing, this is what mine looked like but all of a sudden it tightened up and turned into a miraculous frosting.
See? That Dorie doesn’t lie, it comes together just fine in the end.
Can’t wait to see what the other DB’ers have made.
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Butta Buns 
