April, 2015 | PDX Lit Chic

Nudie cake (no sugar added)

A friend of mine from Salem texted me one weekend:

“Dude, when are you coming over next? Salem is boring so you should come over and we’ll make a cake.”

My friend let me keep a portion of the leftover cookies from from our movie night, because eating six boxes in one sitting would have been obscene.

After a bizarre week, I needed a movie night with beer. My friend was more than happy to provide, along with girl scout cookies.

I made some popcorn, and we watched a bit of Tenali, a virtuous Indian cartoon for children with creepily animated characters.

In want of cinnamon rolls for my brunch, I toyed with the idea of making a cinnamon cake that required a special cinnamon bundt pan.

But I decided to crack into more of Saveur’s New Classics Cookbook collection to see what they suggested.