OK So I know these aren't the biscuits that were assigned for this week and, instead, this is last week's assignment, the Swedish Visiting Cake chosen by Nancy of Dogs Eat the Crumbs. I finally made this dish and now must apologize Melissa of A Love at First Bite to for not completing the Sweet Cream biscuits (which I am actually going to make tonight and hopefully post tomorrow. I hope. Oh, how I hope.)
I totally feel like the class slacker. It's almost as if I'm suffering from a bad case of senioritis and I'm spending all of my time doing make-up assignments in order to grauate. Except I'm not graduating from anything. So this is just depressing.
Also, I have so many posts to catch up on and read, which I have started attacking, but I am nowhere near close. I've got many more delicious posts from my favorite bloggers (all of you!) that I am chugging through. But please, if you do take one note of advice from ever reading this blog, let it be this: Don't read blogs while hungry right before you have to go to a meeting. Your stomach will growl. You will be embarrased. That is all.
I feel even worse slacking on making this recipe because it takes, oh, all of about 5 minutes to put together. No joke. Five minutes, one bowl, great, GREAT taste. Remember that Thomas Keller Almond Cake I posted about last week? That took 30 minutes to make and needed to be made with care. Dorie's cake? Add zest to sugar, whisk in some eggs and extract, add melted butter and flour. Combine. Put in oven. Done.
A comparison? Well, these are pretty much EXACTLY THE SAME CAKE. The textures are slightly different, with Keller's being slightly more delicate, but overall? If you need to make a cake in a pinch that people will love you for? All Dorie, all the time my friends. It's a lesson we all need to learn.
Thanks to Nancy for this great choice! Click here for the recipe, and check out the rest of the TWD non-slackers in the universe!
Ciao ! Your cake looks so great I want to bake it again !!!
Posted by: natalia | April 20, 2010 at 08:51 AM
Your cake looks SO delicious! I didn't get around to baking it, but I want to now!
Posted by: Jennifer | April 20, 2010 at 08:59 AM
Loved this one. I didn't make the biscuits. Ah well.
Posted by: Julessomeone | April 20, 2010 at 10:07 AM
I have been a bigger slacker!!! OOF! I still have to make this and today's recipe! Your cake looks marvelous!
Posted by: sabrina | April 20, 2010 at 01:37 PM
Delicious! I love the way your powdered sugar looks...and any time you can make a cake that's the same as a Keller cake, you have to do it!
Posted by: DailyChef | April 20, 2010 at 02:09 PM
So if I visited you, would you bake this for me? hehehe... Yum!!!
Posted by: jenn (Bread + Butter) | April 20, 2010 at 02:09 PM
Better late than never, right? Thanks for sharing another great recipe featuring almond! I'm definitely going to try this one and the Thomas Keller recipe so I can compare, although I have a feeling the 5 minute one will be my go-to recipe :)
Posted by: Phyllis | April 20, 2010 at 02:43 PM
I have felt like the class slacker for the last several months. :) This was a delicious cake and I am glad you got to make it!
Posted by: Karen | April 20, 2010 at 07:18 PM
It looks gorgeous, and how cool that it's as good as the more complicated recipe! Thanks for saving the rest of us some time!
Posted by: Jill | April 20, 2010 at 10:22 PM
Wonderful photos Teanna!! Your cake is gorgeous. Don't beat yourself up about the slacking - it happens to all of us :)
Posted by: Tracey | April 20, 2010 at 11:27 PM
Lovely cake! Always nice to have a few quick and easy recipes that taste great when I'm in a pinch... I'll keep this one in mind.
Posted by: Jen @ My Kitchen Addiction | April 22, 2010 at 03:05 PM
I am so with you in the slacking department. Don't sweat it, and it's probably a good thing we aren't actually required to do this, LOL.
Your cake looks delish, glad to hear it compares to the more labor intensive cake.
Posted by: Jacque | April 23, 2010 at 08:06 PM
Your cake looks delicious. And I'm raising my hand to join the slacker club. - mary
Posted by: food librarian | April 24, 2010 at 08:28 PM
lovely, like all of your desserts!
Posted by: Fortheloveofyum.wordpress.com | April 25, 2010 at 10:32 PM
I just found this stray tab on my computer with my (never submitted) comment on your Thomas Keller almond cake. So now I see that you baked the SVC too!! Keller's looks so similar to Dorie's cake, and I'm glad that you baked both so now I can just skip the 30-minutes and need-to-have-almond-paste version and stick with the easy peasy Swedish shortcut cake!! Thanks for baking with me - what's a week late between friends?!
Posted by: Nancy (n.o.e.) | April 26, 2010 at 02:58 PM
I just discovered your blog and I love it! This cake looks amazing and I'm sure it tastes even better than it looks! I'm looking forward to visiting here more often :)
Posted by: Nastassia (let me eat cake) | April 27, 2010 at 10:05 PM
I think it would be hard to beat this cake with how easy it is to put together.
Posted by: Carol Peterman | April 29, 2010 at 05:21 PM
I am just now trying to catch up with blogs. I have not had time to post one in a while too! I think I am going to try to do the tart tomorrow. I have to run to the store. Ugh! Wish I could just wish everything to appear and it would. Well, your stuff still looks amazing. This picture is wonderful!
Posted by: carolina little | May 10, 2010 at 06:54 PM
so special cake
Posted by: Nike Shox R4 | May 11, 2010 at 02:13 AM
I made this sucker and for the ease of baking it, it's pure brillance! Loved this!
~ingrid
Posted by: ingrid | May 11, 2010 at 10:44 AM