85/99: Baby Lemon Cheesecake

I started to make these almost every day this week but it didn't actually work out until last night. It's been an incredibly busy week with midterms but I did well and now they are behind me! Hooray!

But the most exciting new is that my strawberries flowered and my tulips are about to bloom!!!  No lie. I haven't killed them and so it's time to celebrate.


Enter cake.

82/99: Golden Lemon Almond Cake

I feel really behind on my cakes.

After this one, I have another one that I haven't posted yet so that means I have 16 cakes to make in the next 48 days. I'm getting a little worried because I'll be gone for spring break and I have midterms coming up. But I am going to make it.  I am determined.  I set a goal and I am going to meet it- no extension or exceptions.

I think my problem is that I'm getting a little sick of it.  I absolutely love it when I'm doing it but I think it's the planning part that I don't like- grocery store trips, prepping, mixing, baking, cooling, cleaning, photographing, blogging. Add that to 18 hours of upper level courses and my to do list gets pretty long.  But i'll stop complaining... no one wants to hear that. On to the cake:

Candied Fruit

I decided to make the fruitcake wreath yesterday and opened up the recipe to see if I could put it together really quickly.  Lo and behold, the first step is to soak the fruit in vodka for a week before starting the cake.  I looked at what type of fruit I needed:

"Glacéed mixed fruit, preferably lemon and orange peel" and "glacéed red cherries."

I had to idea what "glacéed" meant but soon discovered that it means candied fruit. Then I read Rose's blurb and it said that she recommended high quality glacéed fruit from France because it tastes the best.  I'm impatient and cheap so I decided to make my own candied fruit.

53/99: Lemon Poppy Seed-Sour Cream Cake

While I was sitting on the floor of my bathroom this morning blow drying my hair, I had a visitor. I wasn't paying much attention to anything but the blow dryer in my hand since I still hadn't had my daily cup of coffee.  My housemate, Elizabeth, walked in behind me unnoticed and sat on the edge of my bathtub.   When she finally spoke I almost fell over from the shock of someone else being in the bathroom with me.  This week is rush week so she's not supposed to be in a good mood but something was apparently very good by her expression.

It was the cake.

44/99: Lemon Meringue Cake

 

I have a new venue for my cakes.  For every home football game this season, I am assigned to bring one of my cakes to the grove for the Highlands tent. So, since this one has been on my schedule for awhile, The Lemon Meringue Cake was the final decision.  Don't worry though, I'll make the next ones a little bit more Ole Miss festive.

36/99: Woody's Lemon Luxury Layer Cake

The Lemon Luxury Layer Cake was quite a hit.

30/99: Lemon Canadian Crown

 

 The Lemon Canadian Crown cake was surprisingly easy to do and turned out to be really pretty.  There is nothing I love more than finishing up a pretty cake.

Once I made the Ladyfingers and let them cool, I assembled them in a greased springform pan and let them freeze overnight.

My ladyfingers baked together in the oven so I didn't separate the ones that I used for the outside.  I did use a knife to push down on the creases first though so they looked as if they had been separated from the outside.  I think that helped them stay together.