Salty Snack Chocolate Fudge With Potato Chips And Pretzels, Strawberry Sheet Cake, Homemade Blueberry Poke Cake, Etc.
Hello peeps! We are just chugging away over here in Snackable Bakes land. I have been traveling a little on behalf of the book - to Boston, DC, LA and to both Kingston and Rhinebeck in upstate NY and it has been such a treat to meet so many of you along the way. Today (Sunday) I was lucky enough to do an event in which every copy of Snackable Bakes on offer was sold and that was just too thrilling for words (below is a pic of me prior to having sold all the books – and my smile only got bigger once all the copies were gone). If you have already purchased yourself a copy of my latest book, I thank you from the bottom of my snack-loving heart and would be thrilled if you’d leave the book a review on Amazon. Even if you did not purchase the book there, it makes a world of difference in terms of sales, and sales are kinda/sorta all I can think about right now.
But there are a couple of other things on my mind, and one is that I was fortunate enough to have Dorie Greenspan share a recipe of mine from Snackable Bakes in her twice weekly newsletter. I mean dream come true, peeps: DREAM COME FRIGGIN’ TRUE. She shared my recipe for salty snack chocolate fudge with potato chips and pretzels and it was so exciting to not only have Dorie dig a recipe of mine enough to make it and write about it, but also to have confirmation that the recipe is a winner – I mean if Dorie makes a recipe of yours, then winning is what I’d say you’re doing, am I right? And I love the recipe, don’t get me wrong, but I might just have a little more love for it now that Dorie loves it too, is all I’m saying.
Another Snackable Bakes recipe that I truly love that is also now making the rounds, is my Strawberry Sheet Cake. It’s been posted in a couple of different places online and I am thrilled to have people baking it. It could not be simpler or more fruity and delicious. It is the perfect spring cake, what with its moist crumb and jammy pockets of strawberries, but you can sub out the strawberries for any of your favorite berries or even chopped stone fruit (and in the fall or winter, apples would be lovely).
Finally, I want to share my latest for the Washington Post: it’s a homemade blueberry poke cake. A poke cake is traditionally a cake that is made from a box, poked with the end of a wooden spoon and then filled with a can of a fruity premade pie filling and topped with Cool Whip. But for the Post, I created a from-scratch cake that I poked with holes and then filled with a homemade blueberry compote and topped with a homemade whipped cream. The cake is to die for – super yummy and easy and a perfect celebration cake.
Alright peeps, I think I will leave you with these three beauties and say a fond farewell until next time. Hope you give one (or all three) a try and also hope you are baking your way through Snackable Bakes or seriously contemplating grabbing yourself a copy, if you have not done so already.