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What do you say after a long hiatus? There are the excuses for the time away–the busy life with a toddler, finishing residency, finding a job, and moving! There are the days, weeks, and sometimes months in which cooking something tried and true is more appealing than something new.
But every once in a while, there is something that pulls me out of the lull to try something new, and every once in a blue moon, something that pushes me to write about it.
In this case, I was obliging the annual tradition to bake a birthday cake for Nathan. We recently moved from Boston to Seattle, and I thought this recipe from my favorite bakery in Boston was a nice nod to the decade of life we lived together there. I’ll admit that I’m not the biggest fan of Boston cream pie. It can be overly sweet, thick, and heavy to eat. But, this cake captures the pie’s flavors while being sophisticated.