Yesterday, I bid adieu to the awkward, tumultuous, transitional, and often difficult yet wonderful year that was 25 and said hello to a new year, yet to be defined: 26. All I really wanted for my birthday was for there to be a plan, preferably one that included good food, good cake and good friends. [...]
Someone recently asked what happened to all the cake baking around here and the answer is: my waistline. My waistline happened. It can’t take it anymore. As much as I love all the cake, I had to put my baking on hold for awhile to slim up a little bit for the summer. But. There [...]
Well, the Key lime cake was finally made. Aforementioned, super-elusive Key limes were found, the cake was made, and honestly? It fell a bit short of totally amazing for me. And I say for me in Italics for two reasons. A) Everyone in my brood seemed to really like it (I don’t tend to go [...]
I’m not even sure what to say about this cake. Everything I want to say, like “Dear god, this is the most delicious cake EVER.” and “Forget about every other cake I’ve ever made, this one is the BEST!” pretty much just sounds like what I said here. And here. And here. The problem is, [...]
If I gave you the impression last week that everything is a-okay over here, I sort of led you astray. The feeling of “okay” comes and goes, and for the past few days especially, I’ve been in a bit of a cloud. Or maybe I was numb before, and now it’s all very real. Who [...]
If you walked into my house last week, you’d be quite liable to hear me audibly sigh, and say: Oh sweet potato pound cake. How you teased me. How you hurt me. How you tricked me into thinking I had this cake making stuff in the bag. That maybe I had mastered the skills and [...]
I ended up being off for MLK day after all, which gave me time to tackle another cake in my great cake making adventure. Last week it was this sour cream pound cake, this week it’s this lovely brown sugar pound cake laced with crunchy pecans and topped with a cream cheese frosting. Delicious doesn’t [...]
I guess I haven’t much tried to hide my love for cake here on this here blog (love may be an understatement, but we’ll get to that), though you may have gotten a whiff of it a few days ago when I went on and on about venturing all the way to the North End [...]
Well, we’re back from a great long weekend of eating and carousing with family new and old. And now it’s out with the giving of the thanks and in with the receiving of the gifts! I don’t know if it’s coincidence or merely convenience, but I’ve been crushing on a bunch of different cookbooks lately. [...]
Dancing until we were out of breath, Eating until we were out of breath. And yes. Of course there was cake. Party, replete with squealing little girls, And new friends. And the coming together, Of two different worlds. Then memorial after memorial, And pictures and museums, On the prettiest of pretty fall days. Wherein shadows [...]
