Here's what I baked for the sale:
1) Martha Stewart's One-Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes - ironically this "one bowl" turned out to be the messiest of the lot, thanks to cocoa powder flying everywhere and cake batter dripping from my spoons when I scooped it into my cupcake casings
2) Dorie Greenspan's Perfection Pound Cake
I have to say - I used Golden Churn butter, fresh eggs from the market and my precious vanilla extract - made one 9 by 5 loaf and another mini loaf cake. Since I did not want to mar their beautiful forms I had to resist cutting us a slice. But I got lucky when the larger one refused to leave the loaf tin without leaving a bit of itself in the tin. So I tasted it - and man, that was actually wonderful. What with all the chocolate and the citrus flavoured cakes I was making, there is such joy in a plain and simple, vanilla-scented, piece of close-crumbed perfection. I did add a 3 tablespoons of plain milk to the batter though, cos I thought it would be a bit dry without it. No icing, no jam, no accessorising required when you have perfection
3) Mandarin Orange Crumb Cake
This was moist and citrusy on the bottom and crunchy on top, thanks to the roasted almonds in the crumb mixture. Also pretty good, but really, kind overshadowed by the grande old lady (the pound cake).
So I woke up at 5 in the morning on Sunday and did the following: ferry some one hundred litres of soymilk from various suppliers to the church, spooned ice and drinks into cups, hollered at customers to buy, and generally had lots of fun. Oh, and ate lots of food too - something like ten chicken wings in the span of a few hours, I was that hungry and the wings were that good.
All in all, a pretty wonderful weekend in Miri, I'd say :)
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