Day 1121: LAMB CAKE

This morning I finalized the beef roulade, flavored butter and popover recipes for the new book so we had that for lunch. All were excellent!

That should have been the star food of the day but Matt stopped at our favorite old fashioned bakery, waited in line and they had coconut lamb cakes! We hadn’t placed an order so we didn’t think we’d get anything special but thought maybe they’d have something good. I have been wanting cake but did not want to make it myself.

He saw some egg cakes and was going to get that but spied one last lamb cake in the case and it wasn’t earmarked for anyone! He was so excited to call and tell me the cake was secured. The woman at the bakery said we have to name it before we eat it.

I’ve always wanted a lamb cake! My mom always made a homemade bow tie bunny cake (sometimes with coconut fur, sometimes not) and when we were little, we’d often make and decorate egg shaped cupcakes which were great but I remember always looking at the lamb molds at Michael’s and thinking they looked so cute.

The bakery near us does the cutest retro desserts so of course they’d have a kitschy lamb cake. They even frosted the cardboard under the cake with green icing, coconut and jelly beans. It came in a special lamb print box and was only like $20. Day made!

For dinner we got a couple of sushi rolls from the place that makes the salad style California rolls. Honestly, I was still stuffed from lunch.

Tomorrow I’m trying to knock out three more recipes and then I will only have a couple desserts (neither are cakes!) and the recipes I’m still waiting on my grant partner to send me to do. In the final stretch!

I posted a recipe to Coconut & Lime that I really thought was already up there! I was looking for it to see what I had done and found it in my drafts.