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| 10 May 2004 - Back on the Cake Treadmill
It seems as though I can no longer allow a weekend to pass by without filling my belly (and everyone else’s around me) with some delectable dessert. Recently, having veered off the cake course (at my mother’s request) I delved into mini bundt cakes and mini banoffee pies (probably hoping that they’re being mini might make them less filling). Both of which were delicious, but certainly not cake…well, the bundt cakes were, but they weren’t iced with delicate flowers or intricate swirls, so they don’t count in my twisted brain. This weekend, I got back on the cake treadmill (not quite as good for you as a regular treadmill) and spent Friday afternoon getting to know Deb’s CakeWalk Submission: The Freckled Mocha Cake. I had been itching to try this recipe for a few weeks, and was very happy with how simple it was to make. It turned out to be a good cake (not one I particularly loved, but everyone else certainly did – my mother went so far as to say it was the best yet), with a nice crumb, light and not too buttery or sweet. It did have a definite coffee flavour to it (which S. diagnosed as tasting like peanutbutter for some reason), and would have gone rather nicely yesterday with my morning cup of that particular bittersweet beverage, but I was caked, carbed, fooded and full-stomached out by then. In fact, there is surprisingly a large chunk of it still on our kitchen table…wondering to itself, “why oh why doesn’t anyone love me?”. I did reassure it this morning before I left the house that we did in fact love it, and that S. would undoubtedly snag it and love it tenderly after his softball game this evening. After dinner on Saturdays, the usual drill is to clear the table, allowing my brother to bring his camera and lighting kit up so he can photograph my dessert donation. This weekend everyone was too tired (not sure why), too grumpy and obviously much too in need of cake immediately to allow this sort of delay. After most of the cake had been scarfed down I managed to save one nice looking slice to be it’s own star in this weekend’s photo shoot. I ended up liking one picture in particular so much that I used it as my new “logo”. Oh,
and did you happen to notice the new-ish design? Check out the About
page…there’s even a picture of me (and no, I don't always
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