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Photo A Day Challenge: Sweet…

 

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Photo A Day Challenge: Red…

 

 

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Photo A Day Challenge: Chocolate Frost…

It has to be frosting 🙂

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Valentine’s Day…

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Valentine’s Day…

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Weekly Challenge: Victory …

The prompt: In your photo this week, focus on the win, the victory — that moment of glory and pride you’ll remember forever.

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I don’t bake often, almost never, but when I do it’s never been from scratch… until last year when I wanted to surprise my daughter with a homemade cake that I had baked.  I wrote this post on my other blog and thought I would share it here today as my ‘victory’ challenge :)

I Can Bake ! …

It took me 51 years but I finally made a cake from scratch.

Last year for my daughter’s birthday I wanted to surprise her with something she would not expect… and a homemade cake would definitely be that.

I gathered my stuff together and began my new experience.

This ‘new picture’ Betty Crocker Cook Book by the way isn’t all that new.  It was given to me by my dad 51 years ago.

100_7203I decided to make a pound cake in a bundt pan. I mixed all ingredients, well, except for one which I couldn’t find in the pantry and figured it wasn’t all that important … how much of a difference could a tsp of baking powder make anyway.

I even melted some chocolate to add to the pound cake…  thought it would give it some oomph and who doesn’t like at least of dash of chocolate in a cake.

My creation

Into the oven it went and then it was only a matter of waiting to see if it would come out of the cake pan in one piece !  Yay… it did.

My creation

Maybe the baking powder would have made it a little taller but I like to think of it as a petite pound cake.

The victory cake complete with candles :)

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Weekly Challenge: Treat …

The prompt is: This week, share with us a photo of something that you consider a marvelous treat.

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Cliche though it may be, a treat for me was when my daughter took me into NYC and we went to Dylan’s candy store… and also stopped at Serendipity II for their famous frozen hot chocolate which I adore…and do not share :)

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Sorry …

Do you notice anything out of place here ?

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Hot Chocolate …

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perfect on a 10 degree morning


Long overdue cake

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I’d promised to make a chocolate pomegranate torte for Daniel for New Year’s Day but with the dishwasher down I didn’t want to make such a large mess in the kitchen. After a long wait the dishwasher is finally back in action and it’s easy to clean up piles of dishes so the cake is at last done.  I even set aside a little baggie of frozen cranberries in case he’d like this for his birthday in June, when it’s hard to find them.