It was a chocolate cake kind of week here. 😊 With some extended family in town, we all met up at my sister's house for dinner and a chocolate sheet cake was requested for dessert. I think a lot of families have something like this in their shared recipe boxes - we've been making this one for years. It's so yummy - it's good to have lots of people to share it with.
But... there was frosting leftover, and we just couldn't waste it, lol! So I suggested to younger son that there could be such a thing as "Sourdough Chocolate Cake," and it turns out, there is. He found a recipe and made it, and yum!
Before frosting...
And after...
So good!
(And now I need to work off those extra calories!:)
LeeAnna's question of the week is about a choice between two summer activities - would you rather play in the garden or lay in a hammock and read a book? My answer is - can I pick both? I've been enjoying planting things in my pots and small raised bed this year, and things are growing! Here's a view of our back porch and some of my flowers in pots. Although we don't have a hammock, this is a good reading spot!
One of Mike's pepper plants in the ⬆️ foreground here.
But you know I also love to read, and here is this week's book. Kate Quinn is a favorite author, and I have particularly liked her historical fiction novels. This one is a whole different genre, but has really grabbed me!
I don't usually show a photo of the back cover, but this week, I had to!
Oh yes!
10 comments:
I can’t remember the last time I made a cake. My daughter usually requests cupcakes for her birthday. Your chocolate cakes do look yummy! I always like to see what other bloggers are reading. Gail at the cozy quilter
My father was a huge chocoholic. Our go to cake is a Chocolate coke a cola cake. I should make one to share with My Girl when I go visit later this month, it's both our favorite. It's always nice to find a good book to read. Hopefully from your back porch.
Oh those cakes - yum! We used to make "Texas sheet cake" all the time, mainly for church potlucks. My favorite version had nuts and mini marshmallows in that wonderful icing, I think it was the rocky road version. I bet that sourdough one was delicious. Your back porch looks so inviting!
Our go chocolate cake was an old one--called 'Never Fail Chocolate cake' and you just dumped all the ingredients in a bowl and mixed it and baked it--it was always moist and oh--so yummy!!
summer time--think you need to do both--spend some time in the gardens in the mornings when it is cool and reading in the afternoon--for some and stitching for some of us--we did have a hammock growing up at one point--but not sure that we read in it????? hugs, di
I'll take a BIG piece of that chocolate cake and lay in the hammock enjoying your flowers!
Your reading spot looks lovely!
I would want to do both, too!
I do love sourdough cake. I think it is better a day or two after baking! I don't frost mine; but, yours looked delicious!
I like your outside area - good place to read I bet. I haven't read that Kate Quinn book I have most of hers. Here Texas Sheet Cakes are very popular - chocolate just on a sheet pan
Your cakes look wonderful and your patio seems like the perfect place to eat cake! :D I don't know the Astral Library. I might have to see if the library has that one...simply because the back is fantastic! :D Have a great weekend!
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