use real butter

I should just learn to accept that it is okay to purchase a cake. But not yet.

It’s really hard for me to bake in someone else’s house, mainly because their kitchen isn’t outfitted the way mine is, but also because I need to dominate in the kitchen – no room for yackity yack, please get out of my way.

Today’s endeavor involved two cakes that will be traveling with us. The first: lemon lemon with lemon cake. The second: chocolate with chocolate and chocolate cake. If the second cake was not for Jeremy’s grandma, I might have gotten a lot more interesting with the flavors, but the Darlings like their chocolate straight up. Not the most sophisticated, but certainly doable.

The recipe I have for the lemon cake base makes a lot because I only have 9×2 pans. I like the 9×3’s they have at school. So we had enough batter for a mini 6-inch. I made all of the components for the cake and then packed them up since it makes more sense to assemble it at Elena’s place. I wanted to test it out though in mini form, so I made the 6-inch version with limoncello simple syrup, lemon curd, and lemon buttercream. It’s cute.

Jeremy and I went out for dinner this evening. When we got home, there were flourescent squares on our door. Imagine my delight when I opened the envelopes and found these:

Even though Jeremy’s cold is nearing an end, the final symptoms are pretty miserable. His eyes are watering a lot today and the drainage from his sinuses is never-ending – add to that incessant sneezing. Of course, Jeremy has been a total sport about the whole thing, never complaining and even offering to drive me into town if I wanted to run errands. I told him to just stay put and rest up. And Miss Kaweah hasn’t been feeling all that hot either with a random episode in the yard this afternoon. My team is under the weather!

I am still waking at the crack of dawn each day. I think it must be the increase in daylight hours, I have real issues with sleeping while it is light out. At least I’m letting Jeremy sleep in while I get up and take care of stuff around the house. I had a lot of leftover shrimp filling for potstickers, so I resumed using it up today.

**Jump for more butter**