So, my work wife was leaving work for Bosnia. Which made David incredibly sad. So, my response was to bake her a goodbye cake. I was torn between a mocha cake and a caramel cake. After talking it over with her, we settled on caramel because while some people might love a a mocha cake, others would dislike it. Caramel would be a winner overall.
Here was the final result:
Not my prettiest work of art, but it got me back into cake making. I used a trader joe’s caramel sauce to make the butter cream then drizzled some on the top for decoration. If I were to do that again, I’d make scoring lines for the caramel to rest on top of rather then running all over.
It was so tasty, even the office diabetic had a slice and was devoured by my office:
Not bad for my my first foray back into caking in years.