Sweet Start

I was expecting something different. I was going to open the paper, see that a Micheline Star chef had just opened a new restaurant in town. I would go to a neighborhood gem, have one of the best meals of my life and come home to try to duplicate it... (and rather well I hope). Instead, I open the paper to find a write up on Nothing Bundt Cake. Really, Nothing Bundt Cake? A chain! Worse, a dessert chain! I don't like cake, in fact, I don't like dessert. More than dessert, I don't like baking. Everything taste like sugar, plus it seems really hard and kind of makes me feel like a girl. To rub salt into the wound the new store they were writing about was opening in Fremont. Okay, so I am supposed to drive to Fremont to buy a dessert that I don't like, to try to replicate in a style that I don't like all for the sake of a blog that no one will read, and I will probably stop writing soon. Instead, I went to the store in Los Gatos, (this is the one good thing about chains). It was an easy sell for my wife. I said, "Do you want to take a quick ride to LG and I will buy you a cake?" Done.

Enough of my belly aching... what did I think about the cake? Well, it tasted like cake. It was really sweet, moist, but dense. After two bites I was done. For the sake of the project I took a third and felt like I was going to get sick. Something about the thought of sugar and butter is a turn off for me, which is weird because I love fatty meats. But it's true, I don't love sweets. My wife did not share the same sentiment, she loved it. We picked out Red Velvet because we were told that it is Nothing Bundt Cakes's most popular item. I am excited about that because I have never made a Red Velvet myself, we'll see how I do on Sunday.

Come back and see how I did. Remember... NEXT ROUND'S ON ME.