Preseason

During exams, I found only one thing could relieve my immense stress: baking. First, I made the delicious Three Cities of Spain Cheesecake from Gourmet (recipe can be found here). It was absolutely fabulous; although it was still a bit lumpy when I put it in the crust, it came out perfectly creamy. I did, however, fail to take pictures. I'm not sure if cheesecake really counts as a cake, but no matter, this came before this whole one-cake-every-two-weeks business anyway.


The cake that really precipitated my summer plan was this. It didn't turn out exactly as I had hoped: the cake wasn't extremely chocolatey, the frosting was extremely buttery, and the instructions not to cut off the rounded tops of the cakes meant I had to load all the frosting between the layers to fill in the gap. I ended up doing the decorations with your standard powdered sugar buttercream instead.