Next Saturday a few of us are hosting a bridal shower for a very close friend. The event and 90% of the guests (including the bride) are in Indianapolis, so I took charge of the baking. That can easily be done at a distance, and even more importantly, it’s what I’m really, really good at. So, having finally managed to clear sufficient space in the freezer, I got started on the preparations yesterday.
I’ve made brownies. That sounds very simple, and it is, except that I made mini-cupcake-sized individual bites out of them. I’ve made a batch of flourless peanut butter cookies. (At least one of the guests is gluten-intolerant.) I went and acquired the necessary ingredients for the rest of the baking – a lemon yeast bread that is amazing with cream cheese and toffee bars with almond meal instead of flour as the binder in the crust, and the best extra-dark chocolate I could find for the top. That will leave me only the cake to make, and I still haven’t decided what it should be. I can make either my grandmother’s Sunshine Cake (a citrus sponge cake) or a chocolate angel food cake.
Hmm. Decisions, decisions. I have to make this one by Thursday.