Baking A Sweet Life

There’s always desserts that linger in the back of our minds as “ones I’d like to make someday” but am too chicken to do it. Why? I don’t know. Just am was. Not anymore! Tuesdays with Dorie member Mari of Mevrouw Cupcake has selected this weeks bake off and creme brulee was it! Off to the races I was.. I couldn’t wait to make it.  I had a girls-night-in with my sweet friends Karen Rose and Stephanie, and thought this would be an appropriate dessert.

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I live in Atlanta. And normally that resonates with the Braves, Turner TV, Delta, Home Depot, Coca-cola, etc, but lately its translated to GAS CRISIS. At this point in time my husband and I have been fortunate enough to regularly come across gas stations with fuel, but yesterday we did end up waiting for just over an hour to get a full tank. All the gas stations near us were totally empty. So we checked our local new station’s web site where they have this gas finder link and we saw that some stations north of us had residents reporting gas recently. We trucked on up. We passed many vacant stations, but finally came across one that had multiple cars there, and NO LINE. We drove on in and when we inquired why these people were there, we were told that the gas station is expecting a delivery before 10pm (its 8pm at this time). There’s only 2 spots left next to actual gas pumps, and we take one. Here’s the sweet folks to the left of us:

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Okay, I’ll be blunt. This dimply plum cake was fantastic! The recipe had very few ingredients for a cake.. and I just wasn’t expecting much.  IMO, what really does this cake in is the orange zest.  Its SO flavorful, and the smell is out of this world.  Because of this recipe and my Greek Celebration bread, I’ve realized just how much I love orange zest.  The two items both smelled so divine.

This weeks Tuesdays with Dorie bake-off is for the Dimply Plum Cake, chosen by Michelle of Bake-En.

I brought this to an evening barbecue as the dessert, and most people were just intrigued that there were plums in it.  Everyone agreed that it tasted fantastic.  I served it with cool-whip because I didn’t have time to make whipped cream from scratch.  The BBQ that I thought started at 6pm actually started at 5pm. OOPS! So hubby and I stopped off at the local grocer on our way there.
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