Let There Be Cake!

Ta-da! The finished Chocolate Cherry Angel Food Cake! It was (and still is) delicious!!

The lengthy recipe is from the Moosewood Book of Desserts (wonderful cookbook!) and I actually found the recipe published online here.
It was my very first angel food cake and I was quite nervous that it wouldn't turn out, especially since I only had a bundt cake pan and not the traditional angel food cake pan. It came out of the oven looking perfect.
Then the most scary part! Turning the pan upside down (I was so afraid the cake might fall out and I'd have to make chocolate cherry trifle) and allowing it to cool on the neck of a bottle.
The cream cheese and cherry filling was easy to make and delicious and the final assembly fairly easy.

However, the glaze made from melted chocolate and cherry juice sort of globbed on, which is why we had to prettify the cake with pansies and violas. They sort of distracted from the brown in brown look...

Next time, I think we'll use a little more cherry juice in the glaze to thin it just a little. And, if we make the cake only for adults, we thought it would be good sprinkling the bottom layer of the cake with just a little bit of kirsch. I guess it's because the taste of the cake reminded us of Black Forest cake...

I had fun decorating the dinner table with a few recent finds from the thrift store - the pretty embroidered table cloth and the silver candle holder.
I love that tiny vase with the violets, and the shells from the beach.
Dinner was delicious and the company delightful!
I hope you are all having a restful weekend! I am planning to visit your blogs in the next couple of days...