I Forgot...

to add in the last post:

1) The invitation to Cake Thursday, January 16th


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2) How the cakes tasted. I've been leaving out crucial details such as that lately, though by no means on purpose. Business in work and life as well as a cake-preoccupation on THE BOOK leaves me with little time to flush out things here.

Which is ridiculous...I'm neglecting to pay attention to one of the most useful rules of life: You can't judge a book by its cover, and you can't judge a cake by its frosting.

So, all that said...

The Star Cake (which I think I did muse on a bit) was lovely, delicate, and tea-worthy.

The Striped Cake was one of those too-much-going-on kinds of cake. Tart and sweet and fruity and meringue-crusted. It was not a bad cake, but it was an "I can't quite finish it" kind of cake. And rarely do I not finish a slice of cake.

The Sprinkle Cake...alas, I did not get to taste it as I had to leave the party early. A co-worker had paid me to make a red velvet birthday cake for her sister, which was to be delivered (meeting under the clock in Grand Central—kinda poetic) the next morning. A frosting crisis had developed which needed immediate attention. FYI, it all worked out well.

I did receive an email from the recipient of the Sprinkle cake a few days later:

I wanted to say thank you so much for the amazing chocolate cake. When people bit into it there were quite a few memorable quotes.... "I'm eating heaven!" being one.

Leads me to think it tasted pretty good.