Cake

I made a cake today. Just a standard out of a mix cake. It's good, yummy even. But while making it I thought about making a cake completely from scratch. Cake flour, eggs, baking powder, the whole thing. I was really in to it. I was about to pull out the complete Martha Stewart cookbook (she may have been indicted but Martha still knows food) when I thought to myself "is a cake I make from scratch really going to taste that much better than a cake from a box?" I decided that the answer was no. I mean a bakery cake is one thing but a cake that I, little ole Michelle, am going to make? I think not, at least not significantly enough better to merit all the extra time and effort.

The real key to completely yummy cakes (at least by my reasoning) is the icing anyway. So now I think I need to learn to make really, really good home-made icing and more importantly to get crafty with the cake decorating. I've got a cake decorating set that I've never really used. I think I'm going to have to clean the dust off of it during my month of leisure. Since I have the new camera working again expect photos of both successes and failures (if I were you I'd expect more of the latter).