Baking vs. Blogging

This week, baking has won. Instead of coming home, completing a few housekeeping tasks, and then throwing some words together to put up on the Internets, I’ve come home, set out ingredients on the counter, and got to making something delicious.

On Tuesday night, I made an apple spice cake with a brown sugar glaze. I had a bunch of apples left over from half a peck I bought, from which I’d already made one pie, and I wanted to try something new. I ended up using this cake recipe and this glaze recipe. It was a pretty good cake, though it was a little dense for my liking and I wish it had been more “spicy”… and also that the glaze had been more of a glaze, because it was delicious but too fluid to be very substantial.

(This is not a picture of my cake, though mine looked just like this)

Last night, I made an apple pie. I had made one on Sunday, but it was gone already. Plus, I wanted to use up the very last of the apples before they got too soft.

I love baking. I’ve become slightly known for it at work. They’ll eat most anything, but I think they appreciate something made at home with a little love… though they may not know there’s love in it, I wouldn’t bake without it!