-! Super Duper Awesome Apple Pie Cake !- You don't even need sheet pan or acetate sheets!

My favourite recipes at the moment are those by Momofuku Milk Bar. I love their confetti birthday cake, the very cake which inspired me to come up with the Oreo Red Velvet Cake. Needless to say, when I was asked to bake a cake for my mum's birthday, I chose a recipe by Momofuku Milk Bar. 

Apple pie cake is a safe choice since everybody enjoys an apple pie once in a while. This cake incorporates apple pie filling and half-baked cheesecake as the filling to the layer cake. You won't miss out on the crunch of the pie crust as pie crumbs are used in the filling and to top the cake. It's really an apple pie converted to a cake. It's genius!

It really isn't that troublesome to bake a Momofuku Milk Bar layer cake. Although their cake recipes require things like sheet pan, acetate sheet and 6" cake ring, you really don't need to go all out to buy those things to make one of their cakes. Firstly, the filling is thick and sturdy enough not to flow down the side of the cake even if you were to just spread the filling without the cake ring and acetate sheet. Secondly, I personally don't like my cake to be too tall. With the cake so tall, you'll only need a small wedge for one serving, especially for Momofuku type of cake which you can't eat a lot because it's so rich and sweet. It becomes problematic when you want to cut a high cake into small wedges. It doesn't stand. Everything just falls out into one big mess. I find that up sizing the pans to 7" or 8" gives you the best size and height for the cake. I bake mine in round cake pans rather than in a sheet pan. 

Coconut Chocolate Butter Cake (by Nasi Lemak Lover)

First off, lest I be accused of stealing, let me make it clear that this recipe is not mine. I'm merely following a fellow blogger's recipe. If you're interested in the original material please visit Nasi Lemak Lover's blog. I've said this before and I'll say it again, her blog is super awesome! There are tons of recipes there and you'll most likely find something you like to bake or cook on her blog. She updates her blog frequently and her recipes never fail to inspire.

Today we are baking a simple coconut chocolate butter cake. Experienced bakers can literally do this with one eye closed. It's like making marble cake but the vanilla goes on top and chocolate on the bottom instead of having swirls of chocolate in the vanilla.

Rose Levy Beranbaum Cream Cheese Butter Cake with Lemon Curd Buttercream

I just had this wonderful cheese butter marble cake which my mum baked from a recipe in The Star newspaper. I was browsing for baking books on Amazon and I came across Baking Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum. They say that she's very pedantic with her recipes and you have to follow her recipes to the letter otherwise prepare to face failed cakes. 


I was browsing the free preview of her book and came across her cream cheese butter cake recipe. I thought of the yummy cheese butter cake my mum baked and wondered how Ms Beranbaum's recipe would match up.


Browsing further there's a photo of the cream cheese butter cake with lemon curd buttercream  in glorious yellow greeting you like beautiful morning sunshine.

See what I mean?


Apart from the wonderful combination of cream cheese and butter cake, I was also curious as to how cake would taste like with sour cream - which is the other reason why I was so inclined to this recipe. And lemon curd buttercream! Doesn't it sound so good, the whole combination itself, cream cheese, butter, sour cream and lemon curd buttercream. Certainly doesn't sound like just any other cake to me. 

Golden Butter Cake - A step by step pictorial guide

Melt in your mouth butter cake

It's nice to go back to basic and make a simple butter cake. Beginners always start with a butter cake as it is the simplest cake recipe and doesn't require many ingredients.