I went out to eat with a friend this week and while we were driving to Subway we saw the Halloween Store back in our local shopping center. Then, yesterday at my mom's there was a Halloween costume magazine on her coffee table. These signs, among others, give me a nauseous feeling of what is to come. School. Please do not misinterpret. I love teaching and I love my students. Nor is this foreboding feeling have anything to do with the fact that I will have to go back to "work". Most people who talk to me about teaching assume we have off all summer with pay. Wrong Answer. I have worked all summer except for two weeks. I have just felt this way about going back to school since I was a child. I am a naturally nervous person, so the night before school I can't sleep and the weekend before school I try to occupy my mind and body with as many activities as possible. But undoubtedly the morning of my face is burning and something inside of me is jittering right at the top of my left ribcage.
Making the cake this week, knowing it was the last cake before school, did not help this nervousness. However, the good thing that came from making these Butterscotch Cupcakes (besides the end result of gluttony) was that I learned how to make my own butterscotch - and so easy too! Just take two tablespoons of corn syrup, butter, and dark brown sugar and melt them down in a pan, bring to a boil, drizzle over desired consumption item, let it set, and serve! What I am really looking forward to is when Christmas comes, I make homemade peppermint ice cream with candy canes, and now I will have a home made butterscotch topping to go with it!
The actual cake was also an incredibly simple recipe, flour, light brown sugar, eggs, vanilla, baking powder, and butter.
Here is what my cake and the book's cake look like:
Next weekend it is my big sister's birthday- so I think I will make the "Polka Dot Birthday Cake" next week for her.
Until then, if you could read this blog- thank a teacher.
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