Xyz cake (x-tra yummy zesty cake)
Cakes
One of my most favorite jobs ever was as substitute teacher at the local preschool. And one of my favorite units of the curriculum was Alphabet Snack (surprise, surprise.) The XYZ Cake always made an appearance at all the big events – Spring Tea, and the Moving Up Ceremony in particular. Some of you may have been following my Twitter and Facebook marathon pound cake endeavors recently – I’ve made an embarrassment of pound cakes, trying to adapt and perfect my recipe. I think I finally got it. Thanks go to hardlikearmour and betteirene, who guided me in the ways of pound cake. It’s a simple in appearance but problematic beast of a cake, what with all the beating found in most recipes. The greatest success I found with Rose Levy Beranbaum’s mixing technique (thx hla!), which seems counterintuitive for a pound cake-type cake, but it really works great. <br />Surprisingly, I’m not sick of this cake yet, and not so surprisingly, my family thinks I’m a little nutty with this latest obsession, although I’ve yet to hear any complaints among all the pound cake sampling. I guess, technically, this isn’t a pound cake at all, as it doesn’t use a pound each of flour, butter, eggs and sugar. I also use leavener, where traditional pound cakes solely rely on the power of the beaten sugar, butter and eggs to leaven the cake. So let’s call it what it is – the very delicious XYZ Cake.
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