OMG! I'm on Substack now!
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It’s my birthday week - let’s eat cake.
My birthday was June 3 and I’m celebrating for a whole week! And nothing makes me much happier than a good slice of chocolate cake. So here’s a piece just for you!
This cake is my idea of the perfect chocolate cake - not too dense, very chocolatey, loves to be topped with any frosting but cream cheese is my favorite.
What’s your favorite birthday cake? Drop a comment below or reply to this email and share your birthday favorite.
Welcome to my new virtual email kitchen - so happy to have you here!
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A little about me: I have a multicultural kitchen featuring Jewish recipes, Hawaiian Korean recipes and recipes that share my love for Middle Eastern and Mediterranean ingredients as seen through my California lens. For more about that California perspective, check out my other substack called Sumac & Sunshine that I co-write with Sarene Wallace.
Have any questions about food? I never tire of talking about food so leave a comment below or reply to this email. Happy to help! Have a delicious weekend.
Always a pleasure to read what you write.
Happy Birthday week!
Hope you enjoyed your cake.
Your cake recipe looks so good! Is it quite sweet? How far do you think I could reduce the sugar?
I like to use weight when developing baking recipes so I can see the proportion of flour to butter, sugar, etc. I guess that's from my days at cooking school in Paris. Our pastry chef would tell us, for example, how the number of eggs or amount of sugar or butter could vary in proportion to the flour.
My favorite birthday cake is chocolate too but not with cream cheese frosting. My favorite is ganache; or a cake that is good enough that it needs no frosting.
Welcome, Beth!