unconventional cake

11/4/2020

"When I got to France, I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it..." - Julia Child

The only kinds of cakes I knew growing up were ones that my mom whipped together from a box. I remember her banging each cake pan on the linoleum countertop, as I would wince while trying to sneak a peek at what she was making. She dropped them from what sounded like at least 2 feet in the air; supposedly getting rid of all of the air bubbles hiding in each layer before she would carefully place them in the oven.

I've never really liked conventional cake. Everything I always ate at birthday parties or celebrations was always too dry or there was too much frosting so I would tend to shy away from baking it in general. Until I got a little older and wiser, and realized that there were so many endless possibilities.

These cakes are my ode to that. Cake exploration at it's finest.