Good news and better news this week!
1: I passed my exam. The papers will need some tweaking before they're portfolio worthy, but a pass is a pass.
2: Little Miss Eme Baby-Lou Ficus Angeline Tater-tot came home on Monday and is absolutely gorgeous and moving around like crazy. This aunt was fortunate enough to partake in two skype sessions with the little Peanut Em & Em and her parents. Her father's dancing and singing skills are improving daily from the sounds of things (still, poor Mis!)... he just needs to work towards her grandpa's excellent story telling and root beer float making abilities.
3: Today's post marks 1/4 of our journey as completed. 8 down, 24 to go.
This week's cake: Apple Cake with apricot glaze. Recipe from joyofbaking.com
I had to make three and a half cakes this week: Nan always gets to try one. I have dinner at Gram's tomorrow night (I love how everyone tries to feed me!) and the third and a half is for my guinea pigs in the faculty room.
My first observation was that this cake used a ton of apples. I peeled eight and then "coarsely chopped them". For the first two cakes I left them in big chunks, which made the batter nearly impossible to stir. For the third and a half, I cut them smaller, we'll see how it affect the texture.
The second observation was that there didn't seem to be enough dough to fit all of the apple, nuts or raisins. That didn't make a difference in the final cake. It was moist and the "extras" were delicious. There was still enough cake in the cake. The baking time listed on the site was about 10 to 15 minutes shorter than what I used. This guy was hesitant to leave the oven.
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| it looks so gross going into the oven... |
And since we're being Happy Go Lucky: I'm happy that I don't have to peel any more apples and I'm lucky that next week is PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE! (and I may have another kitchen to make a mess of --wha hahahaha).
Be well.
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