This month's cake from Dorie's Anytime Cakes by Dorie Greenspan is a bit different -- it's a savory cake.
It's almost like a 'kitchen sink' cake, since it contains three types of cheese (fontina, mozzarella Parmesan), pancetta, ham, or bacon, chives or scallions, roasted peppers, and honey. Aside from a lot of chopping, the batter is easy to put together, and it bakes in a loaf pan.
While it's an interesting cake, flavor-wise, it didn't thrill me. I put most of the slices in the freezer to revisit at a later date. Maybe toasting them will help; maybe the flavors will be better melded.
There were mixed reviews from the bakers as well, so be sure to check them out at the Tuesdays with Dorie website.
6 comments:
oh man--looks like the perfect loaf. I hope they emerge from their freezer slumber a bit improved.
It is so interesting…I feel like you and I were the only ones with this “ok” reaction hahaha. Everyone else seemed to love it. I had four other people try it and everyone said the same thing. Mine looked fine and very similar to yours so I am not sure what happened haha. Just not our thing I guess 🤷♀️😂😂 (Kim)
Maybe you can share the extras at book club etc. Kim had the same experience. I loved it toasted the next day.
Sorry you didn't like this. Toasting it definitely gives some more depth of flavour. I also have some stashed in the freezer!
Sorry you didn’t enjoy this cake - onwards! I did enjoy it despite not normally liking savoury cakes.
Wow, for someone who didn't much care for this ham and cheese loaf, you certainly have a stunning photo of it all...I could easily raid that freezer and come away with it. Since there are just two of us here to eat a whole loaf, I did find a variety of uses for it, as I really dislike throwing things away that I worked so hard on, so Mark was happy with the variety of things we did with it and he would like to see it reappear (which is why I would love to raid that freezer of yours). Beautiful photos.
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