When in Doubt, Bake a Cake
A while ago, I told my literary agent that I wanted to write a book about cake. Yes, cake. Which, actually seems weird, since I’ve been writing about health for magazines for so many years—five years as a health contributor for Glamour. But here’s the thing: Sometimes, life calls for cake.
Tonight the boys spontaneously decided to grab a bunch of ingredients from the cabinets and attempted to make a cake. Let me list them for you: flour, bread crumbs, cinnamon, vanilla, curry powder, garlic powder (!), baking powder (proud of them for selecting that—they get it!), and an assortment of other odd things (Colby—age 2—grabbed a box of Annie’s mac and cheese). And they mixed, and giggled, and in about 20 minutes, they had their pretend cake.
Tomorrow we’ll bake a real cake. And it will be messy, as life is. A beautiful mess.
And I think I will write a cake book someday. Someday.
P.S. This recipe looks really good.
P.P.S. Morning Glory comes out in two weeks—squeal!
Shannon
Love that you let them make that pretend cake! I just read The Violets of March and on my gosh I couldn’t put the book down! It was amazing! I have a book blog and wrote up a review. I also posted reviews on goodreads, riffle and pinned it 🙂 I can’t wait to read your new one that is coming out!
Betül
I’m your Turkish fan. I love your books. We love you so much in Turkey 🙂 🙂