Romy's Baking and Cake Decorating

Pineapple Upside Down Cake. On a recent nice summer evening my French conversation group met at our house for a Summer potluck.  This Summer has flown by, and we've hardly had a chance to host people on our patio. I tried to organize something with this group a couple of weeks ago, but had to cancel due to the weather. I rescheduled and had amazing luck with beautiful weather on the new day! I considered making eclairs, because with 12 people coming it would have been an opportunity to make a large-batch dessert and they would have enjoyed it. But ultimately, I realized I wasn't going to have time. So looking at old recipes I hadn't made in a while, I decided to try Pineapple Upside Down Cake . It's very good, summery, and an old-fashioned recipe you don't see often. I used Sally's Bake Blog  recipe . I'd used it before, and when I checked her blog it had been updated.  I went with the new version, using cake flour and egg whites only to make a less-dense ca...

My Birthday Cake 2024 My birthday was coming around again, yikes! While flipping through my recipe binder, I spotted a recipe for a buttercream I wanted to try: Pineapple Buttercream . That gave me the idea to make a Pineapple Cake . It would be something different, and it would give me a chance to decorate the cake like a pineapple, something I'd been wanting to try. Since I wanted to make a 6-inch cake, I looked for a recipe for pineapple cupcakes. I found  this one  in a website I'd never tried before, called "Baked by an Introvert".  Usually, a recipe for 12 cupcakes will yield two thick 6-inch cake layers that make for a cake tall enough to decorate.  The recipe I was wary when I saw that the recipe called for using crushed pineapple and its juice. I was worried this would yield a dense cake, but I followed the recipe as is. After 32 minutes the two cake layers were done. I was surprised to see how thin they were! It seemed like they barely rose in the oven at a...