fashion is love: neighborhood

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

mary had a little lamb

Easter, Ventosa Drive, from our Mary Cooks family calendar

i promised you the Lamb Cake recipe before Easter!

it is in the final installment of the food memoir created for my mom's 70th birthday.
i called the chapter Next Generation and the focus was on all the fun baking and cooking shared between Mary and her two granddaughters, Abigail and Charlotte, and with and for her Butterworth neighborhood of kids, many of whom adopted my mom as their own, and vice versa....

but, i was never able to finish assembling and publishing all the remaining chapters so here it is piecemeal, along with a story about the recipe and cake mold used to bake it. enjoy!!

the story of the lamb cake

mom, about the darling rabbit and duckling and hen shaped butter cookies on the platter with the lamb cake. do we have the recipe for those in our Cookies chapter? i think you gave me the cookie cutters when you moved from Ventosa to Mendham!

cookie cutters ...

the recipe, typed for the cookbook

and, i see the chocolate and marzipan glazed egg cakes in the photo as well but did not come across the recipe. i think you made it with a Dromedary pound cake mix as well, and with Shirley's Chocolate Glaze but am not sure? perhaps you can refresh my repertoire with those recipes, along with the pastel marzipan frosting, too?