strawberry summer cake
Smitten's Strawberry Summer Cake. THIS CAKE. This cake epitomized my summer. The cake sits in the oven for almost an hour, till the strawberries turn into jam. I baked it for a dinner party in a friend's backyard on a warm summer night in New Haven, with candles and rickety wooden tables and a bonfire. I put in the oven, yelped when I realized how long it would take, and hopped around till it was done. Waiting till it was just warm enough to touch, I took the whole pan, dumped it in a backpack, and cycled over, and somehow it survived. And it was delicious, even if we were basically eating in the dark.