Comforting Caramel Cake

This caramel cake was comfort food at its best for me. I have always loved crème caramel. Combining it with browned butter was brilliant! I followed the recipe to a “T” and everything came together just right. I have never caramelized sugar with water before and I was so glad that there were detailed instructions warning me about all the sputtering and splattering that was to take place. You can see that I took my caramelized sugar to a pretty deep amber color – it was really flavorful. I didn’t have a deep cake pan so I just made two 9 inch cakes. I think this is even better than a single layer, because I love having a layer of frosting in the middle!

Two things I would do differently: 1) Cut a little off the edge of the top layer so that the frosting would slope down and the caramel drizzles would “drip” down the sides in a more appealing manner and 2) Take my cake out earlier – I got distracted and so the cake went a little longer than I meant for it to – just a tiny bit dryer than I wanted it to be.

My girls and I ate cake two evenings in a row and cut the rest in slices for the freezer. What a decadent treat to pull out of the freezer every so often! The remaining sugar syrup is being used to flavor steamed milks and my morning yogurt. What a delicious fall dessert to make.

- Robin

November Daring Bakers Challenge - Caramel Cake

We, humans, tent to think, that certain things are given forever. But from time to time things go missing. And that includes people, too.

There are many reasons for that. Most often it’s an accident. This is out of our control. But sometimes it’s possible to help to avoid that. By treating depression, talking to teenagers or simply having strong, real contact with people we love or just like and have a real friendship with.

In order to restore those, sometimes lost in this fast and rushy world, bounds, one of the NGO in my country called to organize a Tea for friends and family. Also they asked for donation during it, because it’s their way of found-raising. It was called for this last week and became for me a perfect occasion to ask my dear friends to try CARAMEL CAKE WITH CARAMELIZED BUTTER FROSTING. And they liked it. And they were generous. So thanks for hosts of the November Daring Bakers’ challenge, Dolores of Chronicles in Culinary Curiosity, Alex of Blondie and Brownie and Jenny of Foray of Food for choosing Shuna Fish Lydon’s Caramel Cake with Caramelized Butter Frosting. For great recipe that raised quite a lot of money for people who look for their loved ones.

- Borgia