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A quickie, I did have some thoughts but they are dangerous. Now with some metal pans, there's the option of steamed cakes as in the flan cake.

I was playing with cake mixes and borrowed the idea from a blog and took it from there. They come out like pound cakes with good detail.

I posted this photo B4 but here's the ideak. My grandson just loved it w/no frosting. Never made more though but would.

Malay_Steamed_Cake

My thought was you would avoid the darker areas like what that ridge across the top of a roof is called. Or maybe you can set the silicon in a water bath but would have to protect the tops from soggieness, with foil or something, don't know if the silicon pans would be strong enough.

The following pound cake came with the DH mixes back in the 60's, made this one over and over but had been more or less forgotten. There was an orange one but probably lost the little card for it. Just like the chocolate cake only with vanilla pudding mix, you can figure it out.

I modified the glaze recipe which is very simple and fast, tastes good and is a little like a ganache, make the whole thing in a little saucepan. Recommend sifting the powdered sugar, didn't do that for years but makes it silkier imo.

You can't see as well as I'd hoped, but with the spray, the detail came out great. I appreciate your homemade one, but I'll pass for now, too much on my plate. Maybe I posted this one, too, can't remember. And if you go to the link for the how-to's, I have a nasty habit of getting bogged down in minuteae.

Re the spray taste. For a lot of things, I wipe most of it off with a paper towel but has to be pretty liberal for a cake.

https://www.duncanhines.com/recipes/cakes/agless/devils-food-pound-cake-w-chocolate-glaze/

Sorry I haven't been able to keep up, too much to deal with on the personal front right now.

If I don't get back to you sooner, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

And to Yaelle: Happy Hannakuh and warm wishes for a Happy New Year.

yum, that chocolate pound cake looks decadent. And those other cakes are so pretty.

I was reading about that Baker’s Joy spray, and it said that it tended to cause holes in the cakes, which I noticed and was annoyed with. But it also causes burning on the top. So maybe I can eliminate those burnt ridge lines on the roof if I use something else. I don’t what though...The water bath is a great idea. That works for lots of other delicate cakes. I went ahead and splurged and ordered the metal pan, so that would work in a water bath for sure.

Sorry I didn’t get back to your non-cooking pain. As you can tail, I’ve been obsessed with these little village cakes. Making them, researching, finding more pans...The neat thing is that I’ve always loved the little Christmas villages. I put up a tree and my village this year and that is all. I have about eight or 10 houses and I just love looking at them. So when we started talking about the little village cakes, it became an obsession pretty quick.

That pound cake does look dangerous. Dangerously delicious! And about perfect in density. Not like the black hole baby houses I made. Lol. Hope the home life settles for Christmas and you get to enjoy a merry one. Thanks so much, Aliska.

I’m definitely making that chocolate pound cake – recipe saved and printed! It looks decadent but very easy.

And a merry Christmas and happy new year to you also!