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Stick With What Works….

June 23, 2011 By admin 3 comments

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Last week I wanted to make a little something for my neighbors. There was no special reason, really, I just wanted to make them a little something. There is a delightful older woman who lives across the street who I always see working in her yard and sometimes doing things that make me stop and watch her. I am always afraid she is going to fall or get hurt. Just that day I saw her playing badmitton with her granddaughter. I was impressed.

Our other neighbors are always out and about and very pleasant to talk to. Their 2 daughters just recently graduated high school and from time to time we strike up a conversation at the mailbox, etc.

SO, they were the inspiration for my ‘dessert near-disaster’ . I had tons of strawberries that we had just gotten from a local produce market and I had buttermilk I needed to use up. I didn’t want to make 2 full sized cakes so it hit me: make a pan of mini cakes!

So that’s what I did. I used my tried and true Strawberry Buttermilk Cake
recipe to make 16 little mini Bundt cakes.  The problem was I put my strawberries in first (instead of last) so when I flipped them after they had cooled the strawberries had fallen out of the cake!  I had to quickly pop them back in.  I let them sit for a few hours and eventually them set.  But, for a minute I thought that I had ruined perfectly good cake!

But make no mistake: For a minute there is was a strawberry scented gloppy mess!  I contemplated quickly throwing it all in a bowl and making a trifle.  Noah had already informed 1 neighbor that “Mommy couldn’t come out to talk…because she was making cakes for you all”.  Well, that sealed the deal for me.  This is a lesson that no matter how many times I have made something I still need to pay attention!

My kids delivered them and they were a hit.  Sometimes it just makes your day to share a gift from the kitchen with neighbors and friends.  Even if if was a near disaster ????

Before the ‘flip’ !
While they were cooling…..
Not pretty, at all, but sooo good!

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3 responses to “Stick With What Works….”

  1. Lark (SparkyLarky) says:
    June 23, 2011 at 5:19 pm
    Any gift from the hands of another, means everything! No matter what they "look" like.
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  2. Aimee says:
    June 23, 2011 at 5:56 pm
    I recently had to turn my chocolate bread into a trifle. It was a good disaster :) Cute post... Aimee
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  3. basilmomma: Heather Tallman says:
    June 23, 2011 at 9:43 pm
    Thank you :) They were good...but I DO need to pay attention to what I am doing. I love giving people food :)
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