Miss Evalyn Lucille woke Mommy and Daddy up at 6:30 am this morning, considering we get up every day at 5:00am anyway, we were hoping for a little bit of cat eye this weekend. I guess we should be thankful for the extra hour and a half. Fortunately though, our family got to enjoy cake for breakfast because I was able to make it so early. This week I made Rich Pecan Square Cakes. Since we did not win the Megamillions, we figured we would eat our richness in cake. This cake is a warm cake that uses light brown sugar, eggs, flour, baking soda, butter, sour cream, coffee extract (which by the way Ted is becoming the expert at making it), and chopped pecans.
Here is my cake:
Here is the book's picture:
The best part about making this cake was the fact that I got to use my Christmas present, a square bar cake pan, for the first time. The cakes came out perfectly and I topped them off with a sour cream and maple syrup drizzle and a pecan half. Evie enjoyed it so much she ate two pieces! Plus she had a bowl of cereal. I cannot understand how she can eat so much and still have her pants fall down her waist when she walks.
Next week is Easter, and just like Christmas, Halloween, and Evie’s Birthday, this will be the first Easter that Evie will be able to remember. We haven’t decided if we are going to get her picture with the Easter Bunny yet- she didn’t do so well with Santa Claus, but we will see. I am very excited for her to wake up on Easter morning and get her basket from the Easter Bunny! We told her if she was a good girl we would put in a good word with the Easter Bunny and ask him if he would get her a “My Little Pony” as well in her basket – which is her newest love. Fortunately, we have a plethora of dresses to choose from because my sister gave me all of her daughter’s old dresses, which is a big help because as true for everyone, times remain to be tough. However, Ted and I were just talking about how lucky we are to have such an amazing daughter and soon to be a beautiful baby boy. We are so excited and cannot wait to meet him! I am six and half months pregnant now . . . not too much more to go!
So next week ,I will make an Easter cake- but not the disaster of an Easter cake that was last year- something much more tasty that does not involve the flambéing marzipan!