Lemon Rosemary Chiffon Cake with Elderflower Glaze and Cream Cheese Frosting

Lemon Rosemary Chiffon Cake with Elderflower Glaze and Cream Cheese Frosting is a perfect cake. Funny enough, making it is how I spent my summer. Ok, not quite, but I rarely tweak a recipe over and over until it’s perfect these days. I rely on instinct, semi-homemade, go to favorites, and takeout if I’m being honest. But this summer I decided I wanted to make a perfect cake. Here it is: Lemon Rosemary Chiffon Cake with Elderflower Glaze and Cream Cheese Frosting. What is a Chiffon Cake and Why is it so Great? For me, a chiffon cake is the ultimate. Chiffon cakes rely on beating egg whites separately from the rest of ingredients to achieve an almost sponge cake like texture. I prefer the chiffon family to the sponge cake family because chiffon cakes don’t skip the fat. This chiffon cake uses butter a combination of butter and olive oil to achieve a best of both worlds taste and texture. I also layer citrus on citrus throughout this cake, sometimes in unexpected places. My Lemon Rosemary Chiffon Cake with Elderflower Glaze and Cream Cheese Frosting could use store bought buttermilk, but instead, I combine milk with lemon juice so … Continue reading

Anniversary Carrot Cake

Today, Marc and I are celebrating our 8th wedding anniversary, so I made Marc a carrot cake. Not just any carrot cake, no, an Anniversary Carrot Cake with Buttermilk Glaze. And he swears it’s the best one yet; after years and years of carrot cakes, this may be “the one.” Why is this cake so good? Well, probably because it has two kinds of frosting on it, you know, that stuff that’s made of butter and sugar? First, it gets soaked in an amazing buttermilk glaze, and then it gets topped with that cream cheese frosting that you were expecting. The frosting. This frosting is serious business. And there’s a lot of it. In fact, I’ve made this cake in two 8x8s before and frosted it like a two-layer cake. This frosting is the reason I’ve cut down on a lot of the sugar and oil in the cake. That said, if you love cream cheese frosting, leave it alone. But if you’d like a little more cake to frosting ration check out the notes at the bottom on cutting it down a little. But not too much. Because that’s why Marc and I are so happily married. Not really. … Continue reading