I really only bake a cake every few years and I baked this one to prevent myself from going to jail for a serious crime. I like baking but food is more my thing, I am not exact when cooking and the exactness of baking is what gets to me. I moved office this past week, just from one end of a building to the other end of the same building and it was an epic mess. Everything was planned to a T and then derailed. The painters were late, which held up a whole string of events, like actually moving over, which moving eventually had to proceed even with the wet paint on the walls and the paint fumes in the air. The telephone lines were switched over to the new bigger space, so that the IT people could co-ordinate with the cabling people to get the WiFipeople and computer server people to do what they needed to do to get my office up and running and it worked. Only for a split second. Between moving Day 1 and @&$)@&$&: moving Day 2, the telephone lines just died. There we were, half in and half out and no connectivity and now indication from the service provider when and where a technician will grace us with his presence to fix the lot. We unpacked whatever we could, I sent the staff home and literally sat and watched the paint dry, hung on walls what needed to be up there unpacked again, reshuffled and can still not work at the office-NO CONNECTIVITY.
That is when I started baking. To fix my muddled brain with a bit of exactness and to prevent me from killing someone, a painter, a cabling man, an IT person or whoever was unlucky enough to be close by. Between aforesaid moving Day 1 and @&$$)$)()5;()& moving Day 2 (and pardon for repeating myself, but moving Day 2 should never have been a moving day if it was not for the for THE PAINter people !) , I could of course not sleep and fantasized about the Italian Orange Cake posted by Chef Mimi. So that is what I baked this weekend as a thank you to my husband, my sister and brother-in-law who helped me through this epic mess.I deviated slightly from the original recipe by using buttermilk instead of milk and made a frosting with cream cheese.
For cake ingredients and method, see Italian Orange Cake posted by Chef Mimi (and thank you for keeping me out of jail) and the cream cheese frosting I made as follows:
Mix together until smooth:
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1 cup icing sugar(confectioners’ sugar)
1 cup cream cheese
1 t vanilla extract( I replaced it with a teaspoon of orange blossom extract)
Thank you also to fellow bloggers bakering , mrschoux and polianthus for the nominations, this cake is also for you! I am better at asking questions than answering them so I will rather present this cake to you as a token of appreciation.
Random Photo:
Another kitch but stunning Cape Town sunset to keep me sane for a little longer.
Fantastiese post sussie!! Het lekker gelag ook! Dit was ‘n plesier om te help en die koek was heerlik!!!!
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Nou moet ons net hoop die technician person daag op anders moet ek weer bak
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Beautiful cake…looks positively delicious! That sunset is absolutely gorgeous – must be a perfect sight to end a bad day!
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These sunsets keep me grounded.
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Pragtige koek en lyk heerlik!
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Kan jy glo ek bak. Moet iets doen vir sanity!
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Your courage paid off. Beautiful and delicious looking cake. Way to go! 🙂 And the random photo of a sunset… great God, it’s breathtaking! I would probably have stayed there for hours just to gaze at it. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
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I never get tired of the sunsets in Cape Town. Always something different and it keeps me out of jail!
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I wouldn’t get tired either if that’s the kind of sunset I get to see everyday. Have a lovely day. 🙂
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How could you make such beautiful cake under these circumstances? Looks delicious, would like to try a piece at this precise moment… 😉 Take care, and stay out of jail for the coming days as well. grrrrrrrr :I
xxx
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Just hopy the technician pitches tomorrow otherwise a lot of baking will have to be done….
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I feel your pain, but the resulting cake is beautiful. Onward and upward!
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Thank you. There may have to follow a lot of baking to stay out of jail…
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Presumably you’re in the right job to defend yourself if the worst happens … but maybe baking is a better way to go.
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Less expensive me thinks!
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At least something positive came from all the ordeal. The cake looks stunning! 🙂
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Ja, sometimes one just “needs” to bake! Thank you.
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Great cake looks fab I want to try it hehe how many slices did you have! I’ve re blogged this to my scrapbook to try some time xx
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Well I had to level the cake as I wanted a flat top so the round pieces I cut away just sort of disappeared into mu mouth. And then the cream cheese icing job had a lot of benefits. By the time I was finished I had a substantial helping to make me feel better! Try it, the cake is really good.
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Reblogged this on Justine's scrapbook and commented:
Cake to try
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Double hurray for you for successfully avoiding going to jail and baking a beautiful cake! 🙂
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We shall see what this new day brings…..
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What a beautiful sunset and cake to get you through your trying times.
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Thank you! I am almost back in my body.
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Haha, baking in the name of crime prevention 🙂 I say the world needs more cakes like this one! 🙂
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Ha! Serious crime prevention baking. Maybe more baking required for this week…
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That is a seriously beautiful cake. I love the photographs showing the layers. Just gorgeous. And you’re so right – sometimes one just needs to bake….
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Thank you. That was baking for public safety…..
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You are like me…I rarely bake a cake too and when I do it’s epic! Your cake is definitely epic. Sounds delicious and looks therapeutic too.
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Thank you. I am actually afraid of linking the baking thing too much, waste line and all….
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Thanks for the cake! 🙂
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Bg pleasure!
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🙂
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What a beautiful cake (and a gorgeous view!). Best, Shanna
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SUCH a great and engaging post and I love your humour as well as this GLORIOUS cake! It looks and sounds amazing as are the photos too……Karen
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Thanks Karen! When the going gets tough the tough goes baking!
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A stunning creation – you know we are thinking of moving offices – the whole thing to a new town. Given the chaos that reigns on any normal working day in my place I dread to think what is going to happen if we do actually move!
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Start baking now!
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Heh, heh…Sorry to chuckle but I had to when I read this. It sounds like your no connectivity went even worse than mine. Now I feel a little foolish going on and on about my modem/WiFi not working for a few hours.
This cake is so beautiful. I’m not a baker either for the same reasons that you outlined but when I find myself needing to make a birthday cake, I know where to look.
Now, I am going to drink my first cup of coffee for the day, close my eyes and muster up the image of your sunset.
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Oh the IT woes…always a love- hate relationhip! Thank you, I am thinking I should take up the baking thing to make me find my centre I tell you. Enjoy your first coffee, which incidentally is the best part of my day.
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