Thursday Thirteen #76 Mmmm...Cake Edition

[xakara]

Greetings, Kittens!

I ventured out for errands and came back home intent on using the last of my excess energy to bake a cinnamon swirl cake with lemon cream cheese frosting. I was all set and then it turned out that I didn't have enough powdered sugar to make the frosting, (yes, I make my own frosting because it's the only way I'll eat it), so the cake had to wait. It's been on my mind all night and as a result you get to visually indulge in yummy images of 13 Cakes.

Factoid: The term cupcake did not originally mean the miniature delights we think of now. It was used to distinguish the difference between a cake whose ingredients were measured out with measuring cups and one whose ingredients were measured out by weight. Most modern cakes are cupcakes. *grin*

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Homemade frosting sounds delicious! Happy baking and happy TT!
- Darla

[xakara.livejournal.com]

Homemade frosting is vital! I haven't eaten frosting since I was a child. Some 98% of the time I'd just scrape it off, but this year as I got back into baking, I also made my own butter cream and cream cheese frostings and it was beautiful! Being able to control the exact amount of sugar is priceless!

~X