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This cake is crazy dense. I think I heard that something like a dozen eggs were sacrificed to create this monster. It has a nutmeg flavor with a citrus aftertaste and leaves a buttery feeling on your tongue and lips. There are michigan transparent apples and dried cherries in it. I saw some almonds go in too but they seemed to have disappeared into this crazy dense cake. The density of this cake makes it feel borderline too dry, but overall it is really nice.
Sadly, there weren’t any black walnuts at the Ann Arbor Farmer’s market this week. Looking at Real Time Farms, it appears they chose this week to be absent. Anyhow, this cake was sugary sweet and delicious. It is suggested you eat the cake warm, which is weird for cake. Being warm helps the cake taste extra sugary. The buttery maple glaze doesn’t hurt, either. If I can find any faults in this warm cake it is that it is too sweet. I think a great counterpart would be some black coffee or bitter tea. There is always breakfast!
Erin’s cake this week has a fairly non-PC name, Araby Spice Cake. It is a bundt cake with chocolate in it. You slice the cake like a layer cake and put the frosting in the middle. As one taster said of this cake: “Finally some fucking frosting!”. The All Cakes Considered has been very light on the frosting thus far. This cake was delicious. It was like a coffee cake with the coffee built in. The cake itself didn’t have a ton of flavor in it, but maybe it was because the coffee frosting overpowered it.
A solid 4/5, I’d say.
Elizabeth 11:12 pm on June 24, 2010 Permalink
This sounds amazing. Jealous!