If you read my earlier post you know that I’ll be splitting Thanksgiving between my family and Eros’ family this year. Because I am a great guest, I had planned to bring a dish for Eros’ family. At first I was going to make a caramel cake since that’s Eros’ favorite cake. I was searching the net for the perfect recipe only to find out Eros has never actually had a “real” caramel cake. His favorite cake, that he had me all hyped to make, is really a boxed cake with caramel frosting. When I found that out my excitement went totally out the door…what fun is there in making a boxed cake? None. I was all set to make real caramel with brown sugar…that syrup stuff…butter and the works. Anyway. So I still needed something to take so I settled on cupcakes, I figured that would be easy enough. Since we’re leaving for Michigan tomorrow I figured I’d get a leg up and make one batch of cupcakes tonight and the other in the morning. Well thank God for the dry run…my cupcakes were not great They kind of looked like cornbread muffins and they were dry. I’m convinced that something is wrong with my oven. I followed the directions and they still did not turn out the way I would have liked.

So after all the hype, guess what I’m taking to dinner!?! I don’t know either…some cake or pie…whatever Giant Eagle has available.

I’m finding that cooking is not so much a problem for me…but baking…I’m gonna need some more practice. What’s your favorite thing to bake? And how do you make it…a sista needs some help!