About Recipe

“Mom, Will you bake a cake just for me”? This isn’t a request I ever get, because there is always cake or cookies lying around in the house for the teen and her friends to eat. And the request is usually about a particular kind of bake. Never about a bake “Just for her”. So, I had to pause and ask what kind. But what I wanted to know was what brought about the request. And a few minutes of ‘cake chat’ later I found out that unknowingly, I am always baking cakes either because I have a bundt cake challenge, or because there are new flavors and techniques I want to try or because weekend house guests are visiting and I want something handy because with guests in the house I don’t usually get around to baking. Except for the cakes I bake for friends to take to their birthdays and weddings and the like, I thought I was baking for her because she enjoys eating my cakes.