Well. Hello there.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s been a few months, hasn’t it?\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve been thinking about this blog lots, writing imaginary blog posts in my head (bloggers, tell me you do that too!!) and getting lots of questions from friends and family.\u00c2\u00a0 “Why haven’t you been posting recently?”\u00c2\u00a0 “Have you tried any new recipes lately?”\u00c2\u00a0 “Do you plan to continue your blog?”\u00c2\u00a0 I have just been absolutely incapable of getting back in to the swing of it.\u00c2\u00a0 Honestly, most of the problem is probably my perfectionism.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m terribly guilty of all-or-nothing thinking in many aspects of my life and it can be paralyzing.\u00c2\u00a0 As that pertains to this blog: wanting to have the PERFECT blog post with the PERFECT intro to the PERFECT recipe with the PERFECT photos of the PERFECTLY cooked food.\u00c2\u00a0 And if I can’t live up to that, then nothing at all, and I just can’t be a blogger.\u00c2\u00a0 But that’s an awful lot of pressure, wouldn’t you say?\u00c2\u00a0 It’s been keeping me from sharing some pretty great recipes with all of you and keeping me from blogging which I’ve really come to enjoy.\u00c2\u00a0 So I’m back, just aiming to post semi-regularly with a recipe or two!\u00c2\u00a0 If I can get a great photo (my hubby, The Picky Apple is usually the food photographer), then super!\u00c2\u00a0 If not, then I hope you’ll forgive me.\u00c2\u00a0 If I can write a witty and enjoyable intro to go along with the recipe, then even better, but it isn’t always going to come together.\u00c2\u00a0 My main desire is to share great recipes with family, friends, and any one else who is interested in what I have to say and what I’m cooking and baking!\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll hope you’ll forgive my\u00c2\u00a0 prolonged absence and come back to check things out!\u00c2\u00a0 And of course, I always love comments.\u00c2\u00a0 They make my day, even if I don’t get a chance to respond.<\/p>\n
Daily life with The Littlest Apple seems to have gotten a lot busier.\u00c2\u00a0 He is on the move, a busy little bee.\u00c2\u00a0 A 20 month old with his very own social calendar. \u00c2\u00a0 Wanting to do it all by himself but not quite able to.\u00c2\u00a0 VERY interested in helping in the kitchen, which is heartwarming or annoying, depending on my level of patience at the time!\u00c2\u00a0 His favorite thing to do is “mix”, and he is always asking, “Mix? Bowl?\u00c2\u00a0 Mix?\u00c2\u00a0 Miiiiiiiiiiiiix?!!”\u00c2\u00a0 This is typically followed by a screaming tantrum on the floor if I do not indulge his demands.\u00c2\u00a0 He recently figured out how to push a chair from the table across the kitchen to the counter where I do most of my food prep.\u00c2\u00a0 Gulp.\u00c2\u00a0 I think I’m in trouble now!<\/p>\n
To kick off my return, here’s a recipe for a bundt cake that’s great for breakfast, dessert, or anytime!\u00c2\u00a0 This was one of the first recipes that I really let The Littlest Apple help with.\u00c2\u00a0 He helped stir together the dry ingredients, added the blueberries, and poured things.\u00c2\u00a0 He was so proud of his cake, and told his grandparents all about it the next day when they came for a visit.<\/p>\n
The recipe is from Cooking Light <\/em>so it is (relatively) healthy, but is absolutely full of flavor.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve had lemon-poppyseed, and lemon-blueberry combinations before, but never this trio of lemon-blueberry-poppyseed.\u00c2\u00a0 They make an amazing threesome!<\/p>\n from Cooking Light<\/em>, April 2009<\/p>\n Ingredients:<\/p>\n Glaze:<\/p>\n Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.<\/p>\n To prepare cake, coat a 12 cup Bundt pan with cooking spray; dust with breadcrumbs.<\/p>\n Combine granulated sugar and butter in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until light and fluffly (about 5 minutes).\u00c2\u00a0 Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.\u00c2\u00a0 Weigh or lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife.\u00c2\u00a0 Combine flour and next 4 ingredients (through salt); stir with a whisk.\u00c2\u00a0 Add blueberries to flour mixture; toss to coat.\u00c2\u00a0 Combine 3\/4 cup buttermilk, 1\/3 cup juice, and extracts.\u00c2\u00a0 Add flour mixture and buttermilk mixture alternately to sugar mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture.\u00c2\u00a0 Pour batter into prepared pan.<\/p>\n Bake at 350 degrees F for 45 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.\u00c2\u00a0 Cool pan on a wire rack 10 minutes.\u00c2\u00a0 Remove cake from pan; cool on rack.<\/p>\n To prepare glaze, place powdered sugar in a small bowl; add 1 tablespoon buttermilk and 1 tablespoon juice; stirring with a whisk until combined.\u00c2\u00a0 Pour glaze over warm cake; cool completely.<\/p>\n Yield: 16 servings<\/p>\n Well. Hello there.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s been a few months, hasn’t it?\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve been thinking about this blog lots, writing imaginary blog posts in my head (bloggers, tell me you do that too!!) and getting lots of questions from friends and family.\u00c2\u00a0 “Why haven’t you been posting recently?”\u00c2\u00a0 “Have you tried any new recipes lately?”\u00c2\u00a0 “Do you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,18,25,20,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blueberries","category-breakfast","category-cake","category-dessert","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Glazed Lemon-Blueberry Poppy Seed Bundt Cake<\/h4>\n
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