It isn't that I haven't been baking (or cooking), rather I just haven't been posting about it. Well, actually I haven't been baking as much as I'd like either. Time as always slips by quickly. I say this with the ominous shadow of a twenty year high school reunion looming over me.
As an aside, if I'm never heard from again it means the 110+ degree weather in the Central Valley did me in. The thought that one's last moments were spent in sweltering heat on their high school campus is a sad and sobering thought.
I thought of calling this post American Blackout as a tip of the hat to the snazziest documentary filmmaker that I know. But for some reason that seemed as if it would come across as too flippant.
So, this is a recreation the old Brooklyn Blackout cake and was made from a recipe from Cook's Country. It was tasty, although I think the coffee flavor in the cake was a bit strong. One vote was for a raspberry filling in addition to the pudding filling that was used by the recipe. I was thinking a butterscotch pudding filling and a burnt butter/brown sugar cake.
