Ookings of d00m

This is a family tradition. It's too sweet for pretty much anyone except me and my dead grandmother, so I'm the one who makes it now.

Bottom crust:
1 cup flour
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup brown sugar

cream sugar and butter together, fold in flour.

grease pan
pat down mixture in the bottom of the pan
bake at 350 F for 12 minutes, watching it until it is golden brown.
Take out and let cool to room temp

Top layer:

Beat 2 eggs (the recipe says by hand, but it works just fine in my stand mixer.) until fluffy
Slowly add in 1 cup of brown sugar
Add a pinch of salt
Stir in 2 level tablespoons of flour and 1/2 tsp of baking powder

Add 3/4 cup of walnuts or pecans
Add in 1/2 to 3/4 cup of shredded coconut (unsweetened)

Make sure it's all stirred up.
Pour over the cooled bottom layer
Put back in 350 F oven, bake for 20 min or so, until it passes the toothpick test.

Let it cool again.
Make frosting out of 4 tbsp butter, icing sugar and condensed milk. Dye it the brightest pink you can. Because family tradition says you have "red" frosted dreamcake and green frosted brownies, because Xmas. No, I don't know why you would frost your brownies. I sure don't.
Anyway, frost your dreamcake with your pink icing, then put some red crystal sprinkles on top. Eat in small pieces to avoid insulin shock.

A week or so ago, I had a sudden taste pop into my head. A gooey, sticky cake full of whiskey and honey, with pecans and notes of vanilla.

Tonight, I finally attempted to create it.

I used this as a base.

What I ended up with was:

1 cup PC gluten free all-purpose flour
1 1⁄2 tsp baking powder
1⁄4 tsp salt
1⁄2 tsp ground cinnamon
1⁄4 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp lemon zest
3⁄4 cup butter
3⁄4 cup white sugar
3 egg
1⁄4 cup milk
1 cup chopped pecans

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9 inch square pan. Combine the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and lemon zest. Set aside.


2. In a large bowl (I used the stand mixer), cream together the butter and 3/4 cup sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the milk, mixing just until incorporated. Add the vanilla. Stir in the pecans.


3. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake in the preheated oven for 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool for 15 minutes, then poke with toothpick all over. Pour honey syrup over the cake.

The cake took way less than 40 minutes. More like 25-25?

For the sauce:

1 cup brown sugar
1 cup honey
1 cup Bowmore single malt scotch whisky
1 tsp lemon juice

Put ingredients in a pot, heat to boil, simmer for 2 minutes.

I'm letting the cake and sauce get to know each other for a while before tasting.