Lianne's 13th BirthdayEvery Sunday (well almost, ~49 out of 52 anyway) I have dinner with a group of friends who have become a 2nd family. My husband and I have been participating in this event for about 20 years! For almost 15 of those years I have been bringing homemade desserts as our contribution to the feast shared by 12 to 20 people (sometimes a few more).
Usually I pick what to make for dessert. But it is the group's tradition that on the Sunday we celebrate someone's birthday, the birthday person gets to choose the menu. One of our youngest members, Lianne, had her 13th birthday last Friday. Her growing maturity lead her to not only pick a menu that included salmon and broccoli, but to have an alternate menu (Caesar Salad instead of broccoli) in case the weather was too hot to cook vegetables. How thoughtful!
For her dessert she chose Sosi Cakes, as Blondies are known in the host's home. This was good luck for me as any kind of bar cookie is fast to make, and I had a lot of homework to take care of last weekend.
This is also a great dessert to make if you need to take advantage of early morning hours before the rest of the house is awake. The butter does not need to be pre-softened, so you can start as soon as you are awake enough to be safe around a stove. The batter is stirred, no cake mixers required, so there isn't the risk of waking up anyone who has the luxury of sleeping-in on a Sunday morning. The Blondies were out of the oven and cooling off by 8:30am and I still had the whole day for other tasks!
You can find this recipe in the 75th Anniversary Edition (and some older editions) of the Joy of Cooking, under "Blondies". Enjoy!
Usually I pick what to make for dessert. But it is the group's tradition that on the Sunday we celebrate someone's birthday, the birthday person gets to choose the menu. One of our youngest members, Lianne, had her 13th birthday last Friday. Her growing maturity lead her to not only pick a menu that included salmon and broccoli, but to have an alternate menu (Caesar Salad instead of broccoli) in case the weather was too hot to cook vegetables. How thoughtful!
For her dessert she chose Sosi Cakes, as Blondies are known in the host's home. This was good luck for me as any kind of bar cookie is fast to make, and I had a lot of homework to take care of last weekend.
This is also a great dessert to make if you need to take advantage of early morning hours before the rest of the house is awake. The butter does not need to be pre-softened, so you can start as soon as you are awake enough to be safe around a stove. The batter is stirred, no cake mixers required, so there isn't the risk of waking up anyone who has the luxury of sleeping-in on a Sunday morning. The Blondies were out of the oven and cooling off by 8:30am and I still had the whole day for other tasks!
You can find this recipe in the 75th Anniversary Edition (and some older editions) of the Joy of Cooking, under "Blondies". Enjoy!
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