I was going to title this post “Average Jane, Master Baker,” but even I know when to resist a bad joke. Wait a minute – I still mentioned it, so I guess I can’t resist after all.
Anyway, tonight I’m going to hang out with a group of women who call themselves the Regular Girls. They (we) meet semi-regularly on Wednesday nights to eat dinner, drink wine and chat. This week’s hostess assigned me the role of dessert-bringer, so I made a chocolate cake roll with vanilla ice cream in the center. I also trashed my kitchen in the process, and I’m trying to remedy that this morning before I move on to the next baking project. The cake roll came out beautifully when I took it out of the pan and rolled it to cool. When I added the ice cream and re-rolled it, the cake developed huge, horizonal rifts – d’oh! The good news is that they’ll be less noticeable once the cake has spent 18+ hours wrapped in foil in the freezer. They’ll be even less noticeable when the cake is cut into neat slices, garnished with fresh raspberries, and served to people who’ve already had a couple of glasses of wine.
This morning I’m going to bake a batch of the world’s most delicious blueberry scones. If you like blueberry scones at all, I recommend you try this recipe. Brush the tops with water or egg white and sprinkle them with raw sugar before baking to make them even tastier. You’ll be sorry you ever forked out $2.00 to Starbucks for one of their big ol’ stale scones.
We have new neighbors moving in next door, so my plan is to bring them some scones and take the rest to work. If I’m going to accomplish that and still get to work early, I suppose I’d best get moving. Isn’t it wonderful that it’s Wednesday already?! Man, I love three-day weekends…
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