If you're not eating cake for breakfast, are you even on vacation?
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| How do you know when your baking habit has become serious? When your vacation checklist has notes like "pack a Bundt pan" on it. Remarkably, that's not the only baking note I've written as I've looked ahead to my annual beach week with my family. Among the thoughts that are keeping me up at night: Do I need to bring my small offset spatula? A stack of parchment? Should I pack my piping bag? My approach to vacation bakes is not usually this intense. Normally I rely on just two recipes: this flawless cobbler (because it works with any fruit from the farmer's market and comes together in under an hour) and this coffeecake (because if you're not eating cake for breakfast on a Tuesday, are you even on vacation?). But this year requires a little more planning, because the vacation falls during a week when my family will celebrate not one, not two, but four birthdays. It's a dream come true — birthday cake, (almost) every night! — but it requires some strategy. One birthday boy (turning 10) is anti-chocolate and allergic to nuts; one birthday girl (much older than 10) is gluten-free; and a birthday couple (both turning 50!) is requesting our traditional family cake, which is packed with chocolate and gluten. So here's what I'm thinking: this classic Golden Vanilla Cake one night (no nuts, no chocolate — no problems!); Gluten-Free Bundt Cake another night; and for the night when that chocolate glutinous cake is being served, a box of Gluten-Free Confetti Cake Mix to easily make a dozen cupcakes that the GF folks can tear into. Will we go through all that cake every night? Probably not. But since this is vacation we're talking about, nobody's going to complain about eating the leftovers in the morning. | David Editorial Director | |
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