Challenge #2 Completed

Since I have not made this recipe before I thought I would follow it as written. I went out and bought everything and started. Everything went as it was supposed to, from the batter to the baking and even the icing! After assembling the cake, I was excited to try it. We cut into it, and what do I see? I forgot to put the preseves in the layers! Oh well, onward we go. We got our forks ready and dug in. To say the least, I was very dissapointed in the flavor. I guess I am not as fond of lemon as I thought. The cake as it is, was very firm yet moist and held up well. I would definately try this again, but no lemon at all! I think blood oranges might be my next step. Looking forward to challenge #3.

The start.

In between the french bread, I made chocolate covered pretzels for my daughter's class for valentines day and I also made homemade lasagna (even the noodles were homemade). It was nice to have some other things to do inbetween the long process of the bread.

Now off to check on the Pretty Party Cake that is in the oven for my second challenge! Happy Easter to all.

# 2 in the oven...

Now that I have the time while DB challenge #2 is baking in the oven, I am going to finally upload the pictures from the 1st challenge as promised.

French Bread and More

Now that I am home from the hospital and can sit upright (finally) after major abdominal surgery, I can post my first DB challenge. I finished in the beginning of February, but could not post until now. I can say it was overwhelming and amazing at the same time and look forward to many more. My end result was wonderful, except for the shape of my loaf being abnormal, all was great. Other that my insane idea of doing more than one project in one day, I was very happy with all my results. I am looking forward to the Party Cake for this month since I am all about cakes. I will try and upload pictures of some of my completed cakes for all to see. On to another day in the kitchen. Take care all!