BIZZY BAKES

I am running late.  I had a last minute meeting, at school which threw my schedule off and this posting, in particular.  Fortunately, dinner is going to be late, tonight so I happily sat down, at my computer, put on folk music from decades ago, got a cup of coffee and started thinking about Bake with Bizzy. I love Bizzy.  Bizzy is more of a character than I am.  Bizzy is busier than I am and I am one busy lady.  I know how to spell "busy" and Bizzy does not.  Bizzy tends to get into mischief. I try to act my age or at least the age, I feel.  I figure, I am 30 years older than Bizzy is but I feel like she does, which makes me quite youthful. We have always believed that, if one is not limited by handicaps that slow one down, a person is as young as s/he feels.  I feel about 25 at least today.  It was a good day. I will feel even better when I share  a wonderful cake, I made for my husband.  It is a Vanilla Pound Cake from The...

With vacation comes an opportunity to bake, especially for my hubby, who enjoys baked goods.  Today, I decided to bake something from Marcy Goldman.  I am not sure this is going to work but my plans for the summer are to bake from King Arthur's Flour, Flour by Chang and Passion for Baking by Goldman and of course Dorie. That was a hard decision to make. I am blessed with a number of baking books and I want to take each one and bake through it.  Not being practical, I knew I had to hold back and start reasonably.  I always rave about King Arthur's Flour recipes but I have never taken the book and really sat with it.  It is filled with explanations and how to's.  It is a serious baking book.  The recipes are workable and I usually have the ingredients.  Those are big pluses. Flour (the bakery) is a brand new book and I only read a few pages and checked out a few recipes.  I love the author's gentle style of sharing and the recipes look wond...