Monday, March 24, 2008

Holy Bakeoff

Big, fat baking weekend. Don’t know what got to me…maybe the failed golden butter cake. I pulled up my boxers, laced on my oven mitt and stormed into the kitchen for three holy days and dusted the shit out of the house with flour.

Friday was Banana Tea Bread from the Times Cookbook to regain my form.






In the afternoon, I hooked a wad of sweet, egg dough and made hot cross buns.



Saturday, as long as I was still lousy with Fleishman’s yeast I made Cinnamon buns.



While enough to make most people tear up just smelling them – I actually got to eat them. They’re good for about three minutes, of course, then they start to go south. With a shot in the microwave though, they resurrect just fine and well, you know.

I know... way too much time on my hands? Saturday I'm scrambling together a Red Velvet Cake for another lucky birthday girl.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Lost my touch

How do you forget to add baking powder to a cake!?! Gawd, where has my Mo-Jo gone? I've plunged to the depths of bakery. Mija is 21 years old. You'd think I'd be able to manage a simple Golden Butter Cake with an eyes-closed-butter-cream....

I suspected something fishy when I opened the oven to check after 20 minutes and the cakes deflated like bad tires. While a normal cake is something like three inches high, these came out measured in centimeters.

All is lost...