Lemon Beer Party Cake with Rum Lime Whipped Cream
Lemon Beer Party Cake with Rum Lime Whipped Cream
I’m supposed to sit here and write about a cake when all I want to do is cry.
I’m supposed to sit here and write about a cake when people are dead for terrible reasons.
I’m supposed to sit here and write about a cake when my friend had to sit down her ten-year-old son and explain that he has to be calm and not get upset even when a police gun is in his face, even if he did nothing wrong, because his skin makes him seem guilty and because she wants him to come home alive.
I’m supposed to sit here and write about a cake when good people are killed because someone who looks like them did something bad.
I’m supposed to sit here and write about a cake when a uniform doesn’t keep you safe, not if you’re in it or if it’s on someone who swore to protect you.
I’m supposed to sit here and write about a cake when it seems like #NoLivesMatter.
I’m supposed to sit here and write about a cake when I feel like I can’t breathe in a world so full of hate.
I’m supposed to sit here and write about a cake when it seems like nothing and no one is safe, nothing is sacred and peace does not exist.
I’m supposed to sit here and write about a cake when people think the answer to innocent lives lost is more innocent lives lost.
I’m supposed to sit here and write about a cake.
Lemon Beer Party Cake with Rum Lime Whipped Cream
Ingredients
For the cake:
- 2 tablespoon lemon zest
- 2 cups 400g sugar
- 1 cup 228g unsalted butter
- 4 large eggs
- 3 tablespoons 66g lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon 5g vanilla extract
- ½ cup 108g whole milk
- ¾ cup 88g wheat beer
- 3 cups 360g all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon 5g baking powder
- 1 teaspoon 6g salt
For the whipped cream
- 2 teaspoons 5g lime zest
- 1 cup 120g powdered sugar
- 2 cups heavy 464mL cream
- 2 tablespoons 30mLdark rum
- 1 teaspoon lime 5mL juice
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325F.
- Add the lemon zest and sugar to the bowl of a stand mixer. Mix on high to help the zest release it’s oils.
- Add the butter and beat until well combined with the sugar, light and fluffy.
- Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well between additions.
- Stop the mixer and add the lemon juice, vanilla, milk and wheat beer, stir until combined.
- Add the flour, baking power, and salt, stir until just combined.
- Grease and flour a 9X13 baking dish, pour the batter into the pan in an even layer. Bake at 325 for 35-40 minutes.
- Remove from oven allow to cool.
- In a large bowl add the lime zest, powdered sugar and cream. Beat with a hand mixer on high until soft peaks form. Add the rum and lime juice, beat until well combined.
- Frost the cake with the whipped cream. Chill until ready to serve.
Comments
Tracy July 8, 2016 um 2:12 pm
I know. (((HUG)))
Colleen Lynn Davidson July 8, 2016 um 9:36 pm
Sometimes all I want to do is cry. I don’t understand the violence. I don’t understand how a society that, not so long ago, has seen the negative effects of violence toward people because of something as irrelevant as race can repeat this fatal mistake over and over again. All we can do is try to spread as much love and understanding as we can. Sometimes that means showing up at rallies or protests for support. Sometimes that means sharing your passion and frustration in a blog and providing people with the comfort of a cake recipe.
Tania| My Kitchen Stories July 9, 2016 um 4:39 am
Yeah. It’s all just ……just so hard to understand. Cake helps for 5 minutes
Lauralie July 9, 2016 um 5:04 am
Thank you for writing about cake, too. The world still needs cake, if only to show that there is hope. *hugs*
Audrey Urban July 9, 2016 um 7:16 am
((HUGS))
And as sadly true as this is, it is very poetic.
Becky Dale July 9, 2016 um 10:46 am
Hear hear.
Sandy Stevenson July 11, 2016 um 7:11 am
No more hate online or offline. Bless you Beeroness, bless us all.
Amanda @ Cookie Named Desire July 11, 2016 um 3:09 pm
Yes, cake can seem trivial during times like this, but if you were able to go and give people a slice of cake and put a smile on their faces. Even if it’s just a small smile. A weak smile. It still helps in its own small way. But still. There shouldn’t be a need for it. You’d think that in 2016, we would have learned to love and acceept more and find peaceful resolutions.. that we could trust the people we give positions of power to.
Melissa July 16, 2016 um 6:39 am
I’ve stopped listening to the news for the most part. It’s like anything else… best in moderation.
Except for that cake! It looks delicious. I want to EAT IT ALL!!
Amanda Jane Mitchell August 16, 2016 um 7:53 am
Thank you for writing about cake. It was needed. It is still needed – and some day, when we are all, as a society, able to see the horrors inflicted & know that the thought process behind the horrors is truly abominable, we will use this cake to celebrate.
Love to you.
Jackie August 16, 2016 um 8:51 am
Thank you, Amanda <3