Spent a quiet morning cleaning house and getting ready for tonight. I have a bit of shopping to do, then my (at this point, almost traditional) attempt to make an angelfood cake. I've cooked a bazillion things in my life, and I've never been able to make an angelfood cake that came out the way it should.
It's always flat and hard, though it tastes just fine. I love good cake and angelfood always tastes like chemicals (egg stabilizers I'm sure) when storebought. My Nani could make a perfect one. Sure I like chocolate cake, but I get to have chocolate for everyone else's birthday. My choice is lemon, angelfood or coconut. I'm not a frosting maniac, the cake itself must be good. Moist, flavorful, a fine crumb.
Every other year I get the urge to try again. In the hopes that it will make a difference, I'm getting good eggs, washing all the equipment twice, and moving the oven rack.
Tonight is a low key gathering of a few friends, I wanted to do it on my actual birthday ( a weeknight) to keep it small. I'm looking forward to good pizza, cupcakes from one of those local cupcakeries (they are all the rage and I've never had one), and playing Hearts, which I've wanted to do for months.
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