Walking Barefoot

The inspiration

Walking along a hot and humid street, Ms. Butters came across a fruit stand and was immediately drawn to the brightly coloured fruits that summer seems to be filled with. Cherries, plums, and peaches were all calling to her but something else stood out - Lemons! Just the colour and smell of citrus finalized this tarty sale.

Coming to the kitchen, the next question became, "what do we make?" An easy question as Mr. Crumbs grabbed the "go to" book - Barefoot Contessa Parties. Can we tell you how much we love the Barefoot Contessa?  That woman has no shame in using liberal amounts of butter to cook and bake which makes her Ms. Butters hero.

Her cookbooks are full of lovely recipes and great pictures. We all know and love her iconic line "how bad can that be", which makes us weak in the knees - finally someone who loves butter as much as us!

Lemon Cake

Her cookies are the star choice in our tins of Christmas cookies and often the ones we keep coming back for! Usually, when we're baking for Christmas we make a variety... wait why are we talking about Christmas when it's still summer?

For the summer, Mr Crumbs and Ms Butter enjoy desserts with a tart flavour and long walks on the beach - this is not a singles add, we know - But after our day out and about, we raced to the kitchen to whip up this recipe.  The main difference between the recipe we used and the recipe online is that we used buttermilk instead of yogurt. Considering not many people drink buttermilk - we easily used regular milk and about a tablespoon of the prized lemon juice into regular milk - and voila instant buttermilk.

How bad can that be

The cake was good, but heavy. More like a loaf than cake. The lemon flavour was subtle and next time  more lemon zest is needed (because you can really never have too much).

With our recipe, it said that we'd get two cakes (or loaves), but we cut the recipe in half and made only one - next time, we make the two cakes - because, "how bad can that be".