I’m taking baby steps back: to blogging, making more time for myself, I dunno . . . a lot of things. Do you ever feel life going, three steps forward, two steps back? I’m in the thick of that mode. Change comes in waves only to be followed by the challenges coming with it. I sent out writing to contests and journals four months in a row and felt like I was on a roll getting back in a creative groove, and received news of all rejections back — almost at once . . . which was depressing (so it goes). I decided to give up writing entirely one day, and then sat down and wrote a page or so the following day. Perhaps I’m overdue for a 1/3-life crisis; I seem to be up and down — kind of unsteady this fall and trying to take heart and burrow down and wait for it to pass.
With busy days lately, it has been difficult to even take real note of the months passing. Like,
summer. Where did that go? But I’m no stranger to fall and it’s often my favorite season. So I swept away a small acorn of time for baking cake last weekend, for Deb’s
sunken apple honey cake.This cake is an absolute delight to pull from the oven as golden-hued apples peek out from their tender-crumb caverns; it would make a simple yet lovely addition to any dinner party or potluck, as it appears like a trick at first. Folks will be thinking, how did they insert whole apples into that cake…Which is exactly what I thought the first time I saw it.
So, luckily, when all else fails, there is comfort to be found in simple things; small acts of pleasure like baking a cake (And then a pumpkin pie, two days later — let’s not even talk about that, okay). For full instructions and details on the magic of this cake, visit our always lovely
smitten kitchen.
Town Bakes 
A welcomed return lovely Laura
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