Grown-Up Cakes

Haven't been making any children's party cakes recently.

This was a pretty sweet orange poppy seed tea-cake:

I used the lemon tea-cake recipe from Miette, then substituted oranges (actually, clementines) for the lemons, added poppy seeds to the batter, then sprinkled poppy seeds over the glaze. It was pretty well received.

Made this gingerbread cake (also from Miette) with dinner this evening:

It looks awful in the photo, but it was really great. I used more molasses and less sugar than the recipe called for, which gave it a darker, more sophisticated flavor.  We had it with vanilla ice-cream.  Yeah!