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A Tale Of Two Cakes
Jul. 27th, 2016 11:50 pmThe castle absorbed and redistributed the freezing cold from the ice cream making session we'd had yesterday, probably cooling the entire castle and the bedrock it sprang from, ever so slightly. Spike mopped up the puddles from the melted frost early this morning. Good thing there aren't any rugs, or books, in the dining room.
It's meteor shower season! According to my Astronomer's Almanac, the best time to watch them is in the hours before morning twilight, but there are always a frisky few itching to go galloping through the dark skies at all hours of the night. This calls for a shooting star picnic. I put Pinkie in charge of planning it and we'll be heading out to pasture tomorrow night to go sky watching.
It's also the start of blueberry season. Yesterday, when we were foraging for ice cream flavorings at the bazaar, I noticed that ponies were already selling blueberries. Today I thought we could try our hooves at baking a blueberry rolled oat cake. That would go great with the ice cream Applejack made. Fluttershy's too.
Spike went to the market for blueberries, butter, milk and eggs and I set out the recipe, mixing bowls, measuring spoons, measuring cup, strainer, baking pans, stirring spoons and dry ingredients. When Spike got back, I got Starlight Glimmer while he washed the blueberries. It looked like we had fewer blueberries when we arrived back in the kitchen, but there were still enough for a few cakes.
Starlight Glimmer took one look at the recipe, cast a cake-making spell and presto, produced a blue and white cake that looked fabulous. It didn't quite taste as good as it looked. Maybe it cooked too fast or wasn't mixed enough. What really was missing was the baking smells and the friendship bond that comes from cooking together. We started over.
Spike mixed and tasted, Starlight poured the ingredients and I organized the work flow. Soon we had the blueberry and cake batter mix cooking in the oven while we worked on the icing. It was a light butter lemon icing. We put that in the cooler, cleaned up and fixed lunch while the cake baked. The cake came out of the oven during lunch, and when it was cool, Spike applied the icing and we all licked the bowl and utensils. To friendship! Now we had two cakes. And then Fluttershy came over for ice cream.
What's left of our ice cream is safely stored in the pantry ice box, along with Fluttershy's pail. She didn't take all of her ice cream home since the critters would have eaten it all before she had another taste, but she does like to share a treat with them. So she took home what was left of her raspberry oat nut crunch ice cream and stored the flavors she'd traded scoops for here. It was another hot day in Ponyville and she was back to eat some today.
So she dropped in soon after we'd frosted our second blueberry rolled oat cake, and her timing could not have been better. We all had cake and ice cream together.
The second cake, I'll call it Spike's cake, was the better tasting cake.
It's meteor shower season! According to my Astronomer's Almanac, the best time to watch them is in the hours before morning twilight, but there are always a frisky few itching to go galloping through the dark skies at all hours of the night. This calls for a shooting star picnic. I put Pinkie in charge of planning it and we'll be heading out to pasture tomorrow night to go sky watching.
It's also the start of blueberry season. Yesterday, when we were foraging for ice cream flavorings at the bazaar, I noticed that ponies were already selling blueberries. Today I thought we could try our hooves at baking a blueberry rolled oat cake. That would go great with the ice cream Applejack made. Fluttershy's too.
Spike went to the market for blueberries, butter, milk and eggs and I set out the recipe, mixing bowls, measuring spoons, measuring cup, strainer, baking pans, stirring spoons and dry ingredients. When Spike got back, I got Starlight Glimmer while he washed the blueberries. It looked like we had fewer blueberries when we arrived back in the kitchen, but there were still enough for a few cakes.
Starlight Glimmer took one look at the recipe, cast a cake-making spell and presto, produced a blue and white cake that looked fabulous. It didn't quite taste as good as it looked. Maybe it cooked too fast or wasn't mixed enough. What really was missing was the baking smells and the friendship bond that comes from cooking together. We started over.
Spike mixed and tasted, Starlight poured the ingredients and I organized the work flow. Soon we had the blueberry and cake batter mix cooking in the oven while we worked on the icing. It was a light butter lemon icing. We put that in the cooler, cleaned up and fixed lunch while the cake baked. The cake came out of the oven during lunch, and when it was cool, Spike applied the icing and we all licked the bowl and utensils. To friendship! Now we had two cakes. And then Fluttershy came over for ice cream.
What's left of our ice cream is safely stored in the pantry ice box, along with Fluttershy's pail. She didn't take all of her ice cream home since the critters would have eaten it all before she had another taste, but she does like to share a treat with them. So she took home what was left of her raspberry oat nut crunch ice cream and stored the flavors she'd traded scoops for here. It was another hot day in Ponyville and she was back to eat some today.
So she dropped in soon after we'd frosted our second blueberry rolled oat cake, and her timing could not have been better. We all had cake and ice cream together.
The second cake, I'll call it Spike's cake, was the better tasting cake.
