2. Cake is pretty dry, expecially for a cake with 4 eggs, milk & sour cream. Recipe says to cook 60-70 minutes. I cooked 60, too much apparently. Doesn't matter...won't make again.
3. This is my 2nd Bundt cake I've made in the last of months & they came out perfect. I'm so proud. I love Baker's Joy. I might be ready for a fancy Bundt pan. Next year.
4. My first glaze didn't work. I know what I did wrong now.
5. I toasted pecans for the first time ever.
6. I'm unclear how exactly my kitchen looks like a tornado hit it when I cook but luckily I can clean up my kitchen like a tornado too.
7. I like baking
Another cake story: Back in the early 1970s I was 13 & we lived in the cookhouse at the Pitchfork Ranch. My mom cooked 3 meals a day for the single cowboys in the bunkhouse. The married guys lived in the ranch houses & the company provided groceries. Part of the duties of the cookhouse were ordering groceries, stocking the commissary & then once a week, filling orders from the ranch houses. There was one of the wives who made a cake every week & bragged that she was such a good cook & only made her cakes from scratch. She publicly turned up her nose at cake mixes. But the truth is she ordered one every week! She'd order a strawberry mix & like magic, she'd make a strawberry cake. My dad & I would laugh about it every week but we never snitched her off.
Ok, one more. I was probably about 11 when my favorite aunt & uncle came to visit. Uncle's birthday was in the middle of the visit. I made his cake. I don't remember what kind of cake but his favorite color was green so I made green icing. And I don't remember how many candles but I put one on for each year. When we lit the candles it looked like a big green porcupine on fire. He either really loved it or he was a really good sport. I so adored him.
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