#bakeblr

I've just been asked to make a cake for a coworker's birthday in three weeks. Okay--actually I was asked to bring the cake, but my nickname at work is Betty Crocker. I'd sooner show up naked than with a storebought cake.

Here's the bit where I need you: I'm thinking layer cake. And I do actually have instructions for how to do that. What I do not have instructions for is how to get the cake out of the pan.

I can cook, but I can't bake to save my life. But a few months back, I fancied giving it a go anyway, and the first thing I wanted to bake was sweet rolls, OFC!

Obviously, they weren't perfect. The icing was a bit of a disaster, probably because the temperature was completely off. They were delicious anyway 😂 And the German Gugelhupf mold helped to get the shape right too!

But I also love incorporating my special interests into boring, daily tasks. So, I did exactly what Mouse (N, my OC) does in my story and started experimenting using the "fuck around and find out" principle. 🤌

In my lore, N came up with a recipe that used snowberry jam as a filling to give the fluffy dough and sweet icing an extra kick. Obviously, we don’t have snowberries in the real world, so I used some lingonberry jam instead.