Howdy! It is a nice, quiet, chilly Sunday afternoon here in Tulsa. I should probably be taking a nap since i was nodding off during church today :( oops. i know i'm alot better about that than i was during ye olde college days, when it happened about every sunday! so that's good! earlier i baked a cake which, judging from the batter, will be scrumptious, so i figured i'd include the recipe here for you all! It is called the Sunday Night Cake (guess why i chose that today?!) and the title has something to do with it being so simple you can just whip it up on a sunday night without hardly thinking about it. The recipe is from Baked! Explorations by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito who own a bakery in new york city that i hope to visit someday! i think i've included one of their recipes on here before...
Sunday Night Cake
1 3/4 c cake flour (easy to do a substitution with regular flour and corn starch!)
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
10 T unsalted butter, room temp
3/4 c sugar
1/2 c packed brown sugar
3 large eggs
1 c sour cream (i substituted unsweetened plain yougurt cause that's what we had)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9" round or square cake pan with parchment paper, and butter the pan, parchment paper included.
Mix dry ingredients together.
Beat butter and sugars together until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time. Scrape down bowl.
Add 1/3 of the flour mixture, followed by 1/2 of the sour cream, then another 1/3 of the flour mixture, followed by the rest of the sour cream, then the final 1/3 of flour mixture. This should all be done as quickly as possible so as not to overbeat the batter. Make sure everything is well-blended, though.
Pour batter into pan and bake 30-35 minutes. Remove from pan and, when cooled, frost with a chocolate frosting of your choice! (today i just used a box mix which was really quite tasty, from Dr. Oetker Organics)
And, a couple poems tied together by the common theme of fruit :) i ate an inspirational nectarine. yum yum yum!
1.
A nectarine in wintertime
Might cause some folks to frown--
It's out-of-season (but sublime!)
And grown far out-of-town.
I crave the tastes of summer when
The sky is frosty gray--
That nectarine, though foreign-grown,
Quite brightened up my day!
2.
"Hi-ya, friends! I'm Percy Peach,
Yes, Percy Peach--that's me!
I'm funny, fuzzy (rub my head!)
And full of fiddle-dee!
What's that, you ask? I'm glad you did!
It's rhythm, vim, and song!
In fact, I'll sing right now, yes sir,
And you can sing along! :
'A peach was born in Georgia
He travelled a million miles,
Wound up in sunny Kansas
Where ev'ryone wore smiles!
A lovely lady took him home,
She was a farmer's daughter,
Next thing you know, that Georgia peach
Was tasty Kansas cobbler!
Ohhhh...it's good to be a peach!
(Yes sir!)
If I weren't I think I'd cry
(Oh no!)
I'm glad to be a peach
(Indeed!)
But someday I'll be a pie!
(Hooray!)'
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