The 13th Dessert

The final dessert of last year's charity auction...pumpkin honey cake.

This cake looks better in person. I've got to find a better background for my pictures, or at least clean the counter off before taking a picture. But I am quite happy with how this cake turned out, especially as I hope it'll help cheer a friend up a little too.

I made this cake a number of years back and remember it turned out overly dense and dry. Since then, quite a few more positive reviews were written for it on the recipe site and I thought I'd try it again. I'm glad I did. The cake turned out light and airy with a fine crumb and a delicious spicy pumpkiny flavour. I'm not really one for cinnamon in sweet things, but it works in this cake. Because there's ground allspice in the icing as well as the pumpkin that went in, I wasn't too concerned about the cake crumbs showing up in the frosting since it already had little specks in it.

I'm glad for the trimmings and leftover icing.

Because of the way this cake is made, I was left with quite a bit of trimming and thought I'd attempt my first petit four. I made quite a mess, so there aren't any pictures. I guess there's a reason why petit fours are always glazed...trying to frost a tiny cake is a (pardon my French) bitch.

The recipe for this cake: Pumpkin Honey Cake