![]() You can add your favorite topping or the chocolate chip glaze below. Bake in a preheated 325-degree oven for 1 hour and 20 minutes or until center tests done. Spray a 10 inch bundt pan with cooking spray. Add to creamed chocolate mixture and mix with mixer just until all ingredients are wet. Whisk together the flour, salt and baking soda in a bowl. Melt chocolate chips in the microwave about 1 minute or until when stirred they are smooth. Add vanilla extract and buttermilk, keep mixing. One caution about chocolate pound cakes-do not overbake! Celebration Baking for Susie: Chocolate Pound CakeĢ cups chocolate chips (I use semi-sweet)Ĭream butter, sugar and eggs with a mixer. We managed to leave the cake at a socially distant six feet away, and later they texted us a photo of the birthday girl enjoying her cake. They were sitting on their front porch enjoying cocktail hour when we pulled up with our trusty Tupperware cake-taker. No birthday party this year, so my daughter and I made a secret pact with Susie’s family. I omitted the nuts and used semi-sweet chocolate chips for both the cake and the glaze. I didn’t have that recipe, so I turned to Pinterest, where I found a recipe from The Southern Lady Cooks. ![]() But Susie loves chocolate, especially the chocolate pound cake her late mother Muv used to bake. Granddaughter Molly asks for a strawberry-topped cheesecake. My son-in-law Mark actually prefers Mississippi Mud Pie or Key Lime Pie instead of cake. I always try to bake the celebrant’s favorite kind of dessert for their birthday. My grandmother and mother were big cake bakers in their time, but now, the birthday cake baking baton has been passed to me. It was my friend Susie’s birthday, and virus or no, I believe in celebrating birthdays. But this week I did a little celebration baking. With the stress and anxiety surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, I’ve been doing a lot of what I call desperation baking lately. And this one time, you won’t need a mask or hand sanitizer. It’s safer, for sure, and an online event has definitely gotta be waaaaay more fun than sorting out your sock drawer. Will it be the same as an in-store book signing? Or that luncheon or library event we’d originally planned? Maybe not. Strictly Bring Your Own Margarita, of course. There’ll be lots of virtual events throughout May, including a Cinco de Mayo launch day zoom happy hour (5/5 with our friends at Foxtale Book Shoppe. Part of their community-and who need our support now, more than ever. Me for any of these events, and if not, I’d love it if you’d buy your book fromĪny of the fabulous indie booksellers around the country who are such a vital With a cute top and scarf, and pajama bottoms and flip-flops down below. Yes, just like all of you who are “zooming” from home, it may be “party up top” I’ll wear makeup and earrings for the first time in weeks-but, Year of the pandemic, we’re moving the party online with a Virtualīook Tour. Book tour is, byĬomparison, chocolate mousse with raspberry coulis. Reads, but believe me, there is nothing light about my writing process. Their whole book club? The ones who show up on their honeymoon? (Yes, that ![]() Launch and the signings that follow? The ones who bring their moms, their bffs, ![]() Readers, some of whom drive from hundreds of miles away to be there for the Kick up our heels with hundreds of fans, and officially kick off the I’m missing the most is the cancellation of my annual launch party, where we And that the dog doesn’t spot another dog walking past our house. Fingers crossed that the tech gods are smiling and the Zoom, Facebook Live and IGTV links are all working. Assuming, of course, that my camera crew-aka my daughter Katie, finishes homeschooling my grandchildren in time. Tour stops include the living room, porch, and master bedroom. Instead, I’ll be greeting you live, in person, from home, with a series of virtual appearances. My new novel, HELLO, SUMMER, comes out today, and the thing I look forward to the most-meeting all of you, hugging you, hearing your stories-just isn’t possible this year. ![]() I’m still pining for book tour in this time of pandemic. That said, mastering sourdough bread, labeling ALL THE SPICES in my house with a label-maker and Marie Kondo-ing the s**t out of my medicine cabinet just doesn’t cut it. We have a home, enough food, and DisneyPlus. We’ve been in lockdown going on eight weeks, and we’re going stir-crazy, but I get that we are incredibly privileged. The good news is that my family and I are healthy, and I hope all of you are too. Yes, I’m aware that this is a first world problem. Also? My nails look like I’ve been digging rutabagas. Hey-I’m out here walking around looking like a hedgehog. I also miss having my hair professionally cut and colored and the glory that is a salon mani-pedi. ![]()
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