Let Them Eat Cake.......

......baked in really cute $30 cake pans.

If you've been reading my blog for awhile you know that I have an affinity for fancy cake pans. In my large Webster's New World dictionary the word affinity is only one page away from the word addiction. In my reality it's a little closer than that.

This cake pan thing makes no sense. Although I love to cook, I don't do alot of baking. But hey, I've got to have something to adorn my pretty cake stand collection.

So yesterday I was minding my own business, combing the aisles of my local Bed, Bath & Beyond looking for some table linens for a project I'm working on. I was proud of myself because fancy cake pans didn't even enter my mind. But then, I moved on to Linens and Things. Darn their merchandising! Just across from the table linens, on an end cap, what do I see but THIS........



No, it's not a fancy bra for a zaftig opera singer. It's a Giant Cupcake Pan! I'm sure someone has mentioned this pan.....KatKit perhaps, because she's a cake decorator. KatKit is lucky, she has a built in excuse for buying a Giant Cupcake Pan.

It's two parts, one is the bottom of the cupcake and the other is a swirly top portion. How cool is that? You could easily fill the bottom half of the cupcake with chocolate ganache before you attached the top portion.

At this point I'm envisioning a new reality TV show - "Blogger Rehab - starring Dr. Drew". I'd be the crazy lady on a sugar high with frosting in my hair. How about you, got any addictions you'd like to air on TV. A penchant for transferware perhaps? ....or mercury glass?

Look....there's another cupcake pan. It's a smaller version but still produces four very large cupcakes.



The unfortunate thing about spotting these cupcake pans is that it triggers a reaction. My car mysteriously drives to Williams-Sonoma. (Click that link if you dare) This is a place that I love but avoid like the plague. My budget goes into an instant tailspin when I enter the store. Having a Williams Sonoma nearby is one of the pluses of living in a rural area on the edge of development. I bet this is the only place in the country where there's a Coach store within 2 miles of a livestock feed and tractor supply store.

You clicked on the link didn't you? ....And saw the Easter nest with truffle eggs. So cute.

Having spent some hard time in retail I'll tell you that Williams Sonoma has some great buyers and outstanding merchandisers. The store is simply beautiful. The catalogs are equally beautiful and I have a large collection of old catalogs because they include great recipes. If you haven't checked out the website please do so, because the recipes are also included there with some cooking videos.

Just inside the front door of the store is an Easter display with the cutest pancake flippers shaped like pink flowers.

And here's something new, a pan that produces little cakes in small round basket shapes, waiting to be filled with any number of delicious fillings.



But on the end cap facing the front door is the ultimate in cake pans for the spring - a bunny and basket pan.

Hmmmmm, how many aprons would I need to sell in order to have the bunny and basket pan? In reality I reminded myself that I have not one, not two, but THREE Easter Lamb cake pans. Don't ask me how that happened. So it will be a pound cake easter lamb again this year, covered in white icing and coconut.

Tomorrow we're going to talk about "flipping that basement". Don't miss it.
I changed my mind. I'm sick of working on and talking about that basement. Tomorrow we're going to talk about the importance of our friendships. I guess on some level we all know this information, but we're going to look at it from a new perspective. OK, now I'm off to work on the basement. sigh.