It's July which everyone associated with cake hour knows is student cake month. This is our friendly, non-competitive contest for the lab students to show us their cake hour stuff. It is also a surreptitious way to get them to bring in sweets for the rest of us but never mind that! We accept anything but prize homemade goodies a bit more. As a matter of fact if it is not homemade you can't get the highest five star rating. I guess we are a little demanding in that regard.
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| First off with some lemon squares! |
Today's kickoff entry was homemade lemon bars from our Brown Medical School student doing some concurrent research. These baked in a rectangular pan and then cut up into small squares so we suppose that makes them lemon squares. These are tricky since they combine sweet and sour. You have the sugar to lemon balance correct or they end up too tart or the sugar overwhelms the lemon to the point where you don't taste it.
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| Ready for eating and ready for their closeup! |
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| We like the coarseness of the top! |
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| Lemon curd over yellow cake makes for a sweet and sour treat. |
Our student baker nailed it though. These featured the lemon curd-like topping over a thin layer of yellow cake. They were baked well to come out nice and moist and the lemon balance - if we can call it that - was correct. Good job for the first entry and we give our gal 4 stars!!
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