More Cake

I hope you have a bag of cheetos handy whenever you read a food blog. I know that I have to have some kind of snack within reach as I dive through the endless supply of decadent recipes and mouthwatering photos that can be found on internet food blogs. I mean, if you thought that Food Network was food porn, the internet has once again revolutionized the porn industry (food porn that is).

I am a big fan of food porn. I read cookbooks and food blogs all day long. I prefer them to food shows because I often find the hosts obnoxious or boring and it takes away the pleasure of the food. The only two hosts I truly enjoy watching on Food Network are Paula Deen (I don't care what you think haters, I love her because she is bat s*** crazy and is everything I long to be when I'm old) and Nigella Lawson (Again, I don't care what you think haters, she is beautiful and her recipes are easy and tasty and she has one of my favorite brownie recipes ever). Paula makes me laugh and Nigella makes food look sexy. These are also two women who are not ashamed to dive into the food before it's even cooled, they love food like I love food and they look like they will eat what you put in front of them. I like that in a woman. Stop pretending that you only eat salad ladies! Eat a piece of cake!

I found this delicious cake while reading a favorite food blog of mine called The Town Tart. It's a vanilla cake with a creamy frosting, yummy. The cake looked and sounded dreamy , so I whipped it up as part of my 4th of July celebration (I cooked a lot that day and didn't want to put it in one post, no need to overload you). I made a few changes to it, mainly in the frosting. The recipe she used called to add some strawberry preserves to the frosting which I declined to do. You can by all means try it, but I found without it I had one of the most amazing frostings in front of me. It's a combination of cream cheese frosting and whipped cream so it has all the joys of cream cheese but with a lighter texture and flavor. it really could go well with just about any cake, but the combination of vanilla cake and strawberries was to die for. The strawberries are sandwiched between 3 very moist, thick cake layers that had a very delicate vanilla flavor. I think the addition of some vanilla bean would be killer. The moistness is in thanks to the sour cream that's in the batter, which I adore. I know I will enjoy a cake when the recipe calls for either buttermilk or sour cream in the batter.

I could eat this cake every day for the rest of my life and not tire of it. You will love it to and I really think you should try it. You can find the recipe here. Go forth and enjoy!

Roslyn likes cake too.