Week of Cakes

 When I read Ruth's last blog, I really looked at myself as in a mirror. It was a week of ups and downs, and downs. Lack of capacity to concentrate to anything but TV series. A feeling of wasting time in doing nothing when I should study, read, write, work more than I'm (not) doing. And an under skin sensation of inutility and failure. I felt even happy for Sorriso the turtle not being well so I could leave home to shop medical stuff two times this week! Poor Sorriso (I love her, I swear).

Cooking is really restorative even the results are not always so satisfying.

This week was the week of cakes: a successful plumcake in a not-plumcake-form and disastrous cookies.

All the glitters in are not gold.

 

I tried to replay the comfort Amsterdam Paris cookies.

But too much soda and too much time in oven made them almost uneatable (even if I'll eat them in some way cause nothing must be wasted).

The cake was better. It should have been a plumcake but a I have only a pudding mold. The cake was risen upwards lots lots lots.

For a cake of this size:

- 2 eggs

- 130 g sugar

- 150 ml yogurt + milk (It had been left a mix of milk and yogurt since I made yogurt by myself)

- 50 ml oil

- 150 g flour (I used whole flour)

- 30/40 g potato starch

- 1 tsp of baking powder 

In a large bowl beat sugar and eggs, add milk, yogurt and oil and at last add flour, starch and baking powder.

 

Bake for 45 minutes at 175°C. It is perfect in tea or caffellatte.

Sweet dreams and have all of us a better week!

PS Last dinner of the week: a comfort quarantine risotto: broccoli (sweet and soft) and pancetta (salted and crunchy).