TCS ~ Aug 2013 ~ Maple Pecan Chiffon Cake

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baked our 2nd last cake from

~ Vintage Cakes by Julie Richardson ~

I really do love this cake book and am sorry that our

baking from it ends with our final cake in October

I am looking forward to the new book and another year

of fabulous baking joy with my fellow TCS bakers!

~ Maple Pecan Chiffon Cake ~

at half the recipe

Check out this video on how to remove your chiffon cake

 from the pan by using your hands only!

 Click HERE for the recipe!
note: since I baked mine in smaller pans:
the smaller two pans came out at 25 mins
and the large one came out at 30 mins
instead of 55 mins for a 10 inch pan

 and a quarter of the original recipe

for

~ Brown Butter Icing ~

in case you are wondering....

I sandwich the two small cakes with the same frosting

thus giving me an option of both a frosted cake and a plain one!

 that's what I call ~ having my cake and eating it too! ;)
All cut up and packed for distribution!

I had no mishap (this time ~ with no ingredient left behind)

with this cake and the frosting

(my DH likes this cake (ate it w/o the frosting!) and said to save 

some for his visit with the grandchild)

except perhaps I find the frosting a bit gritty and a tad too sweet...

BUT

(1)

I had a bonfire in my oven cos some oil had spill down from the

hob onto the metal tray just above the gas fire thingy

and I had to spend half an hour cleaning up before proceeding.

(2)

while making the brown butter - there were some

burnt bits at the bottom of the pot and most of them stuck!

so there was another half hour at washing up time spent scrubbing!