weekend food recap

i hope everyone had a great weekend! mine was lovely - drinks with friends on friday night at a new restaurant i have been dying to try, and then delicious easter dinner on sunday!

now for a confession: i am a great baker. i am not trying to sound full of myself - i really know my way around a cake/cookie/scone! that said, every easter i have a baking catastrophe. last year, i used an ina garten carrot cupcake recipe and they came out hard as a rock and i threw them out. this year, my coconut cake recipe from the hummingbird bakery cookbook seemed off. the batter was more like a thick dough, and while the cake layers did puff up in the pans, they were too dense to work as cake (at least in my book!)

i was about to throw them out when the boyfriend suggested that we chop one in half and try it. i begrudgingly agreed, and actually the flavor was great! paired with plain cream cheese, it was like a lovely coconut bread! perfect breakfast fare!

anyway, silver lining: sometimes you try to make cake and you end up with bread. that is still delicious. just not how you thought it would be. a bit of an easter miracle for my type A personality, but there it is!

the fact that i also made a flawless carrot cake may have cushioned the blow :)

now for some snapshots from the weekend:

jacob's pickles (84th and amsterdam - soooo good!)

rosemary vodka lemonade. amazing.

elephant sculpture photo-op

grandnana's deviled eggs (which titus loves, btw)

our easter dinner!

the most beautiful (and most delicious!) carrot cake