This is lovely. Thank you for inviting us, to be here with you for a moment, sipping my cup of coffee, with a bit of unsalted butter, a bit of oil, and a bit of honey, while my little sweet cat curls up peacefully on the carpet near my feet. I woke up wanting a piece of warm butter cake, found a recipe to tweak it in half, because I just need to make enough for me. There is a wet fog clouding up the lower sky meeting the lawn and the neighborhood street. I love the quiet, and enjoy hearing and seeing the images your words created in my head of the café this morning. Amen.
Cafe doesn't work if it's rushed or wearing restrictive clothes--though hats, scarves, and lipstick are good if the muse desires. I am often checking off boxes--meditate, yoga, sweat, shower etc. You know that getting it done, which does keep me balanced, but it is not cafe! Oh how I loved sipping my tea with you this morning...remembering this loving practice, being comforted by your voice, feeling the connection to you, to Sue, to Jonathan and our red thread family. And now, to be present to my art and heart...and maybe giving myself a Cafe Day, honoring the ancestors of the lands beneath my feet on this Indigenous Day. I love you, I love you, I love you.
Below is the recipe for the butter cake. This recording inspired me to invite my my daughter-in- law to join me. She and I did have a warm cafe visit. Thank you again.
Starlight Yellow Cake
1 1/8 cups all-purpose flour
¾ cups sugar
1 ¾ teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
¼ cup butter, softened
¾ cups milk
½ teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 eggs
1 Heat oven to 350°F.
Use 2 (9-inch) round cake pans, or 3 (8-inch) round cake pans, or 13x9-inch pan with shortening/olive oil; Grease bottoms and sides and lightly flour.
2 In large bowl, beat all ingredients with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds, scraping bowl constantly.
Beat on high speed 3 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Pour batter into pan(s).
Bake 25 to 30 minutes (8-inch pans 30 to 35 minutes, 13x9-inch pan 35 to 40 minutes)
Test: toothpick inserted in center comes out clean or cake springs back when touched lightly in center.
This is lovely. Thank you for inviting us, to be here with you for a moment, sipping my cup of coffee, with a bit of unsalted butter, a bit of oil, and a bit of honey, while my little sweet cat curls up peacefully on the carpet near my feet. I woke up wanting a piece of warm butter cake, found a recipe to tweak it in half, because I just need to make enough for me. There is a wet fog clouding up the lower sky meeting the lawn and the neighborhood street. I love the quiet, and enjoy hearing and seeing the images your words created in my head of the café this morning. Amen.
Amen. Yes. I would like some butter cake too. Can you send over the recipe?
Cafe doesn't work if it's rushed or wearing restrictive clothes--though hats, scarves, and lipstick are good if the muse desires. I am often checking off boxes--meditate, yoga, sweat, shower etc. You know that getting it done, which does keep me balanced, but it is not cafe! Oh how I loved sipping my tea with you this morning...remembering this loving practice, being comforted by your voice, feeling the connection to you, to Sue, to Jonathan and our red thread family. And now, to be present to my art and heart...and maybe giving myself a Cafe Day, honoring the ancestors of the lands beneath my feet on this Indigenous Day. I love you, I love you, I love you.
Below is the recipe for the butter cake. This recording inspired me to invite my my daughter-in- law to join me. She and I did have a warm cafe visit. Thank you again.
Starlight Yellow Cake
1 1/8 cups all-purpose flour
¾ cups sugar
1 ¾ teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
¼ cup butter, softened
¾ cups milk
½ teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 eggs
1 Heat oven to 350°F.
Use 2 (9-inch) round cake pans, or 3 (8-inch) round cake pans, or 13x9-inch pan with shortening/olive oil; Grease bottoms and sides and lightly flour.
2 In large bowl, beat all ingredients with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds, scraping bowl constantly.
Beat on high speed 3 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Pour batter into pan(s).
Bake 25 to 30 minutes (8-inch pans 30 to 35 minutes, 13x9-inch pan 35 to 40 minutes)
Test: toothpick inserted in center comes out clean or cake springs back when touched lightly in center.
The best cafe I’ve ever experienced was with all of you. Thank you for that time together. Miss you all
and grateful for those memories🙏☕️♥️
❤️