For a bit of backstory,
I square dance with Tech Squares
every Tuesday night
(I promise this is relevant).
There are a lot of calls in square dancing
(over 1,000 at the highest level),
and one of them happens to be called Sock It To Me.
This is a reference to the once-extremely-popular TV show Laugh-In.
It also happens that there is a Bundt cake recipe
called Sock It To Me cake,
presumably also a reference to the show.
Of course,
being born 30 years after Laugh-In aired,
I have absolutely no association with the phrase "Sock It To Me"
other than square dancing.
So when I learned of this recipe
with the same hyper-specific name
as a call in the extremely niche group activity I do with my friends
where people often bring baked goods to share --
the next step was obvious.
At first,
I just wanted to make a Sock It To Me cake,
but I didn't have a Bundt pan.
So I bought one for this purpose,
but then it seemed silly to use it for literally one thing only,
and also I felt very powerful with my newfound fun-cake-shape abilities.
And then I couldn't decide what other flavor to make
because there were too many I wanted to try,
and...
this got somewhat out of hand,
and I have made a different Bundt cake
every week (that Tech Squares has met) since then.
So here are pictures of all 41 cakes so far,
which you can click on to enlarge.
There's also a lot more pictures that aren't shown,
some of them showing the baking process,
which you can click the button next to the pictures to see.
Since this was the first one, I hadn't realized the importance of fully cooling before putting on glaze yet, so you can see it was almost completely absorbed. (I have not fully learned my lesson as you will continue to see, as sometimes I make the cake Tuesday afternoon and don't give myself enough time to let it cool :P) I think I used some combination of the linked recipe and
this one.
Possibly overcorrecting, I made the caramel "glaze" way too thick, so it ended up being more like (still tasty!) caramel frosting.
This one has a bit of a backstory -- my first idea was lemon, but my friend who is a very big fan of lemon and makes lemon bars for her dorm at an impressive frequency couldn't come to squares that particular night. So I asked Google for some help:
And this one was for our caller Ted Lizotte's birthday! The candles are arranged in the starting positions of dancers in a square, with the same color scheme as used by
Taminations.
The marbling didn't work exactly as intended, but still looks cool!
I was out of town on Tuesday for Thanksgiving, so I made this (Thanksgiving-themed!) one the day before with a friend, who brought it in my stead.
Continuing the theme, the weirdest flavor so far, which I thought was quite good!
This week was graduation week for the Tech Squares class, where they finished learning all of the calls and became members of the club. So I decided to make a really fancy one, which might be my favorite so far! I recommend clicking the pictures to see them bigger, since I think it looks really pretty.
This one has fresh corn both in the cake and the icing.
To explain that middle picture, I sent it to the Tech Squares Discord server with the caption: "i have left two clues for today's flavor in the picture! one of them is a real clue, and one of them is a tricky red herring. can you solve the puzzle, and deduce which is which?"
Just a few days before this one, the thought occurred to me "ooh, I wonder when the next time April 1st is on a Tuesday is? I could do something funny for that". I did not realize it was the next one! So I made this "Bundt cake," which I impassively claimed to everyone at the dance bewildered by the hole-less, non-circular shape that it was a totally normal Bundt cake, just like I had been bringing the past many weeks. And that I also had accumulated a bunch of holes from punching out the middles of previous Bundt cakes, so I figured I ought to bring those as well. The flavor was also part of the joke, as I told people this was a perfectly vanilla Bundt cake.
If you've never seen a key lime, you might not realize how tiny they are; here's a Bundt cake for scale. I got an entire bag of 18 key limes without even considering that it might not be enough, and ended up having to augment with some more (regular) bottled lime juice.
The recipe said to "use extra mango for garnish" 🤷
This one was supposed to have a jelly filling, but it all sank to the bottom and then stuck to the pan. I did manage to get almost all of it out, and a friend cleverly rebranded it as "raspberry upside-down cake" :D
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