“Why can’t you just make a normal cake?” The Cynic sighed, in exasperation after my most recent post, “no olive oil, no sprinkles, no nuts, just normal!”
Now let me give you a little background on the Cynic. When he says ‘normal’, he doesn’t mean this, this or even this. His idea of normal is basically a plain white cake, without the trimmings, consisting of only the bare essentials.
His baking advice always seems to follow a similar pattern:
Chocolate cake,… “hmmm, it’s alright but next time, leave out the chocolate”
Orange Cake… “you know, this’d be great without the oranges”
Banana Cake….
well I think you get the picture.
The most exotic ingredient he’s allowed me to add to a cake is cinnamon! So I really had to get my thinking cap on for his so-called normal cake, and when I did, I came up with this…
The Curious Baker 