on the onesies and twosies.

raspberry lemon pound cake?
yeah.
i think that sounds pretty flippin' good right about now.
how about you, neighbors?
yup.
i thought you'd think so, too.
at least, i hoped you'd be on board with berries and citrus
and buttery butts for about a billion degrees of dopeness.
okay.
so raspberries are tart, and lemons are tart,
but cake is sweet.
i think we've got it going on, guys.
i know, i know-
you just wanna see what you're getting yourselves into.
that's fair enough.
go ahead and check the teleport:

mmmhmmm.
raspberry upside-down flippy-floppy inversion jauns,
with fancy blops of raspberry-lemon frosting framing in the rough edges.
yessir.
throwing down the berries first and letting them bake into the heavy duty
sour-creamy succulence of that rich thick sexy cake was inspired.
huh?
no.
not like i had divine, semi-demi-godlike directives beamed into my brain.
it was inspired by the first try that i F*ed up.
hahaha.
that's what i'm talking about.
failure.
i'm just as busted and distracted and capable of accidents as anyone.
i just especially hate when it happens.
y'know what happens to pound cake without a leavener?
density increases like the event horizon of a black hole.
that's a thing.
check the first-try-wasn't-quite-right-type teleport:

raspberry-filled lemon pound cake,
with rasberry icing and lemon zest sprankles.
bummer.
it tastes almost expert.
and that's not really good enough, now is it?
damn.
i guess i've got too many things going on at once, sometimes,
and the meditative mindset and masterful focus for baking great treats
was off it's mark and in the wind.
...and i hate the wind.
every answer brings change,
and every effed up cake brings my irrationally irate anger to the surface.
we all make mistakes,
but i expect more from myself.
sure,
i was also making three other things at the same time,
but that's no excuse-
it's just a reason.
and i can't reasonably be expected to be okay with making the same cake twice.
that's why the other other one was activated just a little baby bit differently.
i do what i do the way i do it,
because what else would i be busying myself with?
c'mon.
this is What Is.
and that's the way it goes.
there's gonna be some doughy cake and some dense cake,
and a whole crap-heap sh!t-ton of raspebrries around the studio today.
huh?
yeah.
they'll eat anything,
so the mistakes won't go to waste on those hungry hippos.
waste not?
we'll see;
never quiet, never soft.....