It’s no secret that I am a fan of cookbooks. And I like to bake. I’ll see a great-looking cake in a cookbook and I will immediately want to try that recipe out. But some of the cakes require a special pan. I’m definitely not averse to trying a new pan out, but…specialty pans require storage space. I don’t have a lot of that. So, very often, I’ll just think “wouldn’t it be nice to try” and then I’ll bake a standard cake.
But I don’t have to do that anymore!!!!
I borrowed the Jack-o-lantern pan from the many available baking pans at the library, and immediately started thinking about what to bake. There are a lot of Halloween and harvest-themed cake recipes out there. I decided that a simple pumpkin snack cake would be just the thing. Just looking at the pan, I knew I’d need to double the recipe. I got to work and made this cake, and it was absolutely delicious. I brought it to the library and printed out the recipe, and made a tasting station so anyone who came in and was interested could try out the cakes before they decided to make it or not. We got a lot of takers. It was really a fun thing to do, and I’m pretty sure it will happen again. I just have to decide which pan to borrow!
See you in the stacks!
/Annie
