#somekitchenstories

My beautiful coffee, vanilla and chocolate sponge cakes pre-frosting. I pride myself on being a good home baker, so I take it hard when I make inexplicable mistakes. Today's aw-shit moment was when this 3-layer cake just couldn't be held together by frosting. The salted toffee icing was delicious, but altogether too runny to stay intact between the cake layers. This was supposed to be a birthday cake for my mother too 😞 ah well, c'est la vie. She has a tres leches cake anyway.

Day 110. It wasn't (and should never be!) a competition. But if it were, I would have won EVERY SINGLE TIME. 63/100

Day 109. I don't like (frosting) to be spread too thin. Just a little (okay, a lot of) sinfulness on a Black Saturday. || The Pioneer Woman's Tres Leches Cake 62/100

Day 108. YOU CAN BAKE COOKIES IN YOUR CAR. Thought you ought to know. 61/100

At the height of the dog days, and in the interest of furthering scientific inquiry, I decided to "bake" cookies in my dad's car. It took four hours at 160 degrees Fahrenheit (71 Celsius -- that's how hot the inside of your car is!), but they cooked up well enough. They're not as beautiful as their brothers baked in the oven, but they didn't turn out badly at all. THE POINT OF ALL THIS IS YOU CAN BAKE COOKIES IN YOUR CAR.