Day 85 ~ Baking

Tomorrow we are hosting a "chocolate, waffles, and movie" evening with our friends to celebrate Christmas in advance. I am also going to put together a small care package for each family. Inside, baked goods. I've spent more than four hours looking up recipes and baking. Initially, I didn't have eggs, so I focused on recipes with no eggs. I found a chocolate one. Then I saw that the big bag of whole-wheat flour had an orange almond cake recipe. It called for an egg, but I just added more liquid in some other form. Then the eggs arrived and I made banana cupcakes and a lemon cake. In the end, the chocolate cake looked amazing, with a silky surface. As for taste, the general public would have rated it as  "not sweet enough," but that is a condition we don't consider a problem. The almond cake needed to be discarded. My boyfriend, who is a great eater, said that it was awful. We think it was the skin on the toasted almonds. Sad, I rarely throw out food. The lemon cake and the cupcakes were very good. Each holiday box will have two banana cupcakes, two servings of chocolate cake, and a thick slice of lemon cake cut in two. On the outside, "Happy Holidays" or "Merry Christmas" in the languages of the recipients.