I was thinking how I have jam that needs using, so I made a sponge cake and sandwiched it with strawberry jam. It’s Alice Medrich’s hot milk sponge this time because I kept wanting to make it after my last hot milk sponge, which wasn’t as good. I was only going to eat a half slice of this, but it’s so light and delicious that I quickly scarfed down the whole thing. Alice’s recipe truly is the best.
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I made my third iteration of the tigerkaka today.
This was a full recipe in a 9"x5" pan. It barely fit, and took almost two hours to bake. It came out fine, but going forward, and if I’m baking a large cake, I’d like to try this in a bundt pan and see if it doesn’t speed up the baking process a bit. A half-recipe in an 8"x4" pan it takes 60 minutes.
This cake has rocketed to the top of my “favorite cakes” list based yum-factor, eye-appeal, and how well it holds up with an olive oil base.
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The pattern looks like those humongous tongs that icehouse workers or farmers use for hauling out blocks of ice or moving hay bales.
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Or a smiley face. 
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Actually I’m seeing a smiley puppy face now 
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Ha ha. We have a dog friend with whom we meet up and play occasionally while walking at the park. He’s a white Husky. He would devour this cake in 30 seconds flat.
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Remind us where this recipe came from ?
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I springboarded off of two recipes: Alice Medrich and true-north-kitchen.com. Original post is here:
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My first thought was, that’s a puppy with an extra big smile! Whatever it is, the pattern is so beautiful!
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Coworkers devoured it!
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In using up some juice I had saved from a can of sweet potatoes; I added brown sugar, shredded apples, cinnamon and nutmeg for this creation. The finished product was a tasty & moist cake. I added some green food coloring and the last of the sweet potato juice to my butter cream frosting recipe to top it. I know “Green” is the theme for the WFD thread, but I’m guessing a little “green” in the Baking thread won’t hurt.
*** Note to mods *** Feel free to move this post to the March 2024 Baking thread once one is created. Thanks!!
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What’s cooking in your oven as we tiptoe into spring?
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The first BCOTM of the year is still going strong if you haven’t jumped in yet:
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Whole orange and olive oil cake, one that I frequently bake with a lot of iterations. Started out as Meyer lemon and gets many different additions. Serving this later today with pineapple ice cream and a pineapple rum sauce.
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This cake is calling my name! 
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I will rename it the Barney cake!
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Why, thank you Ma’am!
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King Arthur’s marble rye, inspired by the thread on rye bread.
I took one major shortcut by scaling the dough and adding the black chocolate to half BEFORE the first rise. I know it’s not prudent to do this as chocolate can inhibit the yeast, but given the small amount (1 T.), and some testimony from the comments, I decided to give it a go. It worked out fine, and I got a good rise out of both halves. For the darker part, I used a slurry of black chocolate, rye flour, and water. I should note the slurry required an additional 2 T. of water not called for in the recipe, so I added a spoonful of rye flour to that half of the dough to accommodate.
The only other changes I made were to sub 40 g. of the water with pickle brine, adding 1/2 t. of prepared yellow mustard and doubling the caraway seeds from 1 T. to 2 T.
My dough temperature was up there, both from warming the liquid in the microwave and the friction from the stand mixer. I used a proofing oven for both proofs, and found things moved pretty quickly. Keep an eye on it if your dough and kitchen are warm!
I baked in a 13” Pullman pan (loosely tented with foil but sans the Pullman lid). While the dough doubled in size during the proof, there was not a lot of further oven spring.
Fun project! I’m very happy with the results. The bread has everything I wanted – a flavorful loaf with classic rye bread texture and an attractive crumb. I’ll happily make it again. We’ll be using this loaf for open-faced butterbrodt.
(Side note: I can never hear the phrase “marble rye” without thinking of that Seinfeld episode where Jerry has an interesting encounter with an old lady and snatches her marble rye – too funny!)
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A friend loves Seinfeld, keeps watching reruns. I’ve only seen about 20%.
Anyway, he’d start to describe an episode, start laughing hard, would make me laugh hard. Just in the retelling …
I remember one about Kramer spilling hot coffee and the company was going to settle with him and offer him free coffee for life and $10,000.
Kramer went to the meeting, was informed about the free coffee, jumped up, shook hands, thanked them, never heard about the $ offer.
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