Here is the link to the recipe I was following for this cake: HalfBakedHarvest
This cake did not turn out well. It was 100% my fault. For my birthday this year I decided to make my own birthday cake since I've been on such a cooking/baking spree lately. I settled on this cake because the pictures made it look delicious. I am also not a huge fan of heavy chocolate cakes, so this one seemed perfect.
The recipe was fairly easy to follow. It is not vegan- contains eggs, butter, and milk. I choose to use almond milk, and vegan butter as my swaps. For the buttercream frosting, I added way too much milk/chamomile and then I ran out of powdered sugar half way through. So I made a meringue to try and make it thicker- it didn't work. It was super thin, but tasted great.
The actual cake was yummy. I messed up the top layer because I realized after it cooled that it did not cook thoroughly, so I put it back in the oven to try and fix it. It ended up sticking to the pan and started crumbling. That's why the top layer looks so bad.
So for assembly I just slapped it all together to take a quick photo and dug in. I want to try this recipe again, except I will make it a two layer cake or cupcakes. I would still do the same frosting, just more powdered sugar this time!
The cake was light and fluffy. I loved the strawberry jam in the actual cake. The chamomile gave the frosting an interesting flavor which worked really well with the strawberries. Loved it (minus my own mistakes)!
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