time to make cake
I'm so happy because I get to bake something today. It's been a long time and I miss it so much, but because of the whole eating healthier thing I've been good to not keep big batches of baked goods around the house. But today is a special occasion, Ramona's birthday, and I have the privilege of baking her cake. She requested a yellow cake filled with chocolate pudding and iced in chocolate. I found a yellow cake recipe on epicurious that has sour cream in it, I added some fresh orange zest just because and it's in the oven right now smelling really good. The frosting is chocolate sour cream. I think it'll be a nice take on the Duncan Hines version we grew up on. I am taking a shortcut on the filling though. I had to make huge batches of custard at the bakery and just don't like doing it. I'm going to indulge my guilty pleasure of chocolate jell-o pudding that we used to eat when we were kids. Now hopefully I can make it look as good as it smells.