the cook stack

I made my fifth recipe from Snacking Cakes over the span of two nights after the kids went to bed. The first night I baked the cake, and the second night I made and poured the glaze. As you can see from the picture, my husband and I sampled the cake on the first night sans glaze. The consistency of the cake was much lighter than the other snacking cakes I have made from the book thus far and very pleasant to eat – my husband even asked if it was supposed to be an angel food cake. Unfortunately, by the second night, this light and fluffy texture was gone, and the cake itself was rather tasteless. The grapefruit flavor comes through in the glaze and is much more subtle in the actual cake. The white chocolate flavor is also totally masked by the sweet glaze and is only barely evident in the plain cake. In fact, the cake was so flavorless by the second night that the flavors were all in the overpoweringly sweet glaze.

Taken together, I would probably not make this cake again. Maybe I would make a grapefruit muffin without the white chocolate and do some other topping to make this …. healthy?

I am not totally disappointed by this cake, because I did really like the fresh-from-the-oven texture and subtle flavors. But, not a keeper for us.

Onto the next one!