Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Sorry About the Absence, and Cake!

So I have been very sick here lately and could not cook, since nobody would eat anything I touched (my family actually followed me around with Purell). First there was a badly infected spider bite on my arm and then something cold-ish and flu-ish. I'm mostly over it. I think. But I'm falling behind in my cooking, so I needed to bake something anyway. The solution? 3-1/2" cake pans! Then I can just eat the entire thing without becoming too large to fit through the door. I'm made three miniature butter cakes today with 1/4 of the recipe, using the same amount of batter for each mini-cake as I would use for one slice of regular cake. Insta-portion-control, which is JUST what I need, as I'm almost too large to fit through the door as is. To jazz up the first cake, I melted some butter in a small saucepan, chopped up a few peach slices and threw them in with some cinnamon, and then crumbled in a bit of brown sugar and melted it to create a caramel sauce. Yummy! I cut the mini-cake into two layers and put some topping in the middle and poured the rest on top. The really great thing was that the caramel sauce was still very hot, so it was thin, and it seeped all the way through the cake to make an incredibly moist, flavorful dessert. So good!!!

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