Every bite of food should be a sweet bite
I been so absent with the Avid Baker’s Challenge post, its a wonder that I have not be kicked out by our gracious host Hanaa.
But this weekend was long, it was raining outside, I had caught up with all of DVR viewing and I wanted a yeast cake and ABC choice was a Butterscotch Spiral Coffee Cake.
Butterscotch people!
As in gooey, caramel-y, sticky and sweet. Pair it with a yeast cake filled with layers of butter and cinnamon, and the cake had me at “hello”.
When we arrived last Monday from our Mexico vacation, both Tom and I were holding each other up – yes, were relaxed and loosed and ready to take on the world. But having just spent most of the day traveling in ferries, transfer buses and planes, by the time we walked in our house, we were exhausted.
We both called our respective work and told them we were going to take the day off.
And we slept.
A lot.
Actually, he slept more than I. Because, my body knows that when I have plenty of time to oversleep, my internal wake up alarm kicks in and there is nothing that stops me from waking up and not being able to fall back to sleep. I usually go nuts trying to accomplish this, until I simply give up and get out of bed.
Then I walk around antsy all day.
Marie, our fearless founder of the Heavenly Cake Bakers has completed her goal of finishing every cake (minus the wedding cakes) in Rose Levy Beranbaum - Rose’s Heavenly Cake Book. In 2 years she baked a total of 90 cakes and through it all manage and inspired over 40 bakers around the world baking along with her every week. I’m not going to lie and tell you that she will be greatly missed. I have gotten so used to every week looking forward to her Last Cake, Next Cake post where she recapped every single bakers trials and hurrah moments – it was the highlight of my mid week.