Day 19: Cake

I’m writing this just as the familiar sweet and spicy scent of carrot cake starts to fill my apartment.

When I added “make a cake just because” to my list, I suppose the intent was to evoke a celebratory mood, and this morning, when I picked this little change off my list, that was very much how I was framing it in my mind. This was going to be about celebrating no particular occasion. This was going to be about eating the cake. This was about the end product.

Silly me. I should know better by now! After all, the whole premise of this blog is that the process is the celebration (I’ll get into this in more depth soon, I promise).

I tend to write these posts late in the day, but I think it’s important that I clarify that I started writing this just before 10 pm and the cake had gone in the oven only a few minutes prior. Rather late by a baker’s standards. I could have started much earlier in the evening, but there was no sense of urgency to bake, ice, and eat a cake today. I really just wanted to spend some time in my kitchen baking something for no particular occasion. And so I did.

Besides, cake is way better for breakfast.