Culinary Adventures with Camilla

One of  September's challenges  for the  Jamie Oliver Food Revolution  Ambassadors ( I'm the Monterey #FRD2014 rep! ) is to celebrate! Celebrate...with cake! Late last year, my kitchen elves wanted to help me for a blogging event and voted for cake. Hummingbird Cake. Since Jamie will be sharing his, I decided to share mine. One of the boys had ordered a slice of Hummingbird Cake somewhere at sometime. I did some reading about Hummingbird Cake and a friend who lives in Tennessee sent me an article along with a recipe. Hummingbird cake is a spiced banana pineapple cake with cream cheese frosting that's been a southern favorite since the mid-19th century. The first known publication of the recipe was in the February 1978 issue of  Southern Living.  Click to see:  the original recipe .  That same year, it won the 'Favorite Cake' award at the 1978 Kentucky State Fair. Here's our version... Ingredients Cake 2 C white whole wheat ...

Thoughts from this month's judge - Maggie Daniel Caldwell - were posted today. Maggie blogs at  Life in a Skillet   and was our guest judge for this month's  Cook the Books . Click to read: Thoughts (and a Winner!) from Maggie Daniel Caldwell .  Maggie did a phenomenal job of reading, reflecting, and writing comments on each and every entry. How sweet! First, here's what she wrote about my entry ( Hummingbird Cake ) Camilla: I'd never heard of Hummingbird Cake before and enjoyed the scan of that original recipe. It reminds me a bit of the pineapple upside down cake that Mom always makes for my dad's birthday. Your Kitchen Elves are quite accomplished at marzipan - I'm jealous! Then, after going through all of our entries, Maggie shared this... With all of these great blog posts, you can see that it was difficult to choose a winner. But I awoke very early this morning, before dawn, with a very clear notion of who should be the winner: Culin...