OMG food porn....

[e_phemerart]

I'm frosting the cakes and I had to do a "quality control" taste test.  Took a bite sized scrap of the green tea flavored cake and put a bit of the lemon-ginger frosting on it to sample.

Damn, this combination of flavors/recipes definitely goes in the save and make again file! (If I do say so myself, and hope others agree with me.)



Lemon-Ginger Frosting recipe (my own)

2 sticks butter
1 cup vegetable shortening

cream together

add 1/2 ts powdered ginger

gradually add 1.5 lbs powdered sugar

add 4 TB lemon juice

makes enough to frost two  (9 inch round) (three layer) cakes

Comments

[wolfmare.livejournal.com]

Oh geez... At this point, I've gotten so used to cake without icing that even thinking about it makes my teeth hurt! What can I say though, less WW points without the icing. Meh. Does sound awesome though!

[e-phemera.livejournal.com]

heheh...but I'm just tasting it for culinary purposes and carbo loading....

[wolfmare.livejournal.com]

True enough. I usually nab a corner of every cake I make, even if I'm not planning to eat a full piece. Simply because if it turns out bad, I'm not forcing it on anyone else.

Fun icing you might try sometime... Look up a recipe for cajeta. We made some last night, after I'd baked a cake. I tried some on it and OMG yum. I'm bad about using odd honeys the same way, orange blossom and blueberry are great for topping a slice of cake with... and far less calories.

Except on chocolate cake. I haven't found a lower calorie topping for that which doesn't taste awful :(

[ryokara.livejournal.com]

I wanna taste it!