La-de-da, la-de-da, another day ♫, and here comes the weekend! No snow for us, but I know lots of you are socked in! Perfect! It’s cake baking weather! Cake baking, with this music, and soon, a pair of darling green salt and pepper birds winging their way to one of you lucky girls. ♥ What a day!
Just in case anyone forgot how truly darling these birds are, here’s the photo again! You can almost hear them tweeting a song about spring! ♣
Also, I wanted to show you another item I designed for Wedgwood that I really wish I had today!
It would have had the thinnest glass top, etched lightly with flowers, and would have been perfect to cover and keep our delicious M I L K C A K E fresh!
So! I found this “old Vineyard recipe” for Hot Milk Cake in our local paper. I’m always attracted to interesting old recipes that say, “This is plain food, simply prepared, and absolutely delicious.” What’s not to like? Thought it could be perfect for a tea party; had to try it. ♥
Here’s the original recipe as printed, although I finished up the directions with suggestions for things such as what size pan to use, what is “a little salt,” and what temperature to bake it at. I’ll rewrite the recipe and put it at the end of this post so you can print it out. I broke the rule and “thought” about frosting it, but didn’t; and since I was “fresh out” of yellow tomato conserve, I made a sauce to puddle in the bottom of a bowl full of cake. Y U M ! It’s still not fancy, never fear . . .
So here’s what you do:
Set the temperature for 325 degrees. See how easy it is? Piece of cake!
T H E C A K E
First you get yourself a “rounded teaspoon” of butter (love the way old recipes are written — this was much easier than one that reads add a “knob” of butter!); drop the butter into a half cup of whole milk and heat it on top of the stove until hot.
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Whisk a couple of eggs within an inch of their lives.
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Gradually whisk in the sugar . . . beat well.
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In goes the first half cup of flour, the baking powder, salt, and vanilla.
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Stir well . . . then add the other half cup of flour and the hot milk with butter . . .
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And that’s all there is to it! Pour the cake batter into a buttered 8″ square (or round) cake pan. Bake 40-45 min.
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Pull it out of the oven when the edges start to pull away from pan, or check it with a toothpick in the center . . . allow your kitty to watch . . .
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Let the charmingly plain little cake cool while you make the sauce . . . (There’s Jocelyn’s two Love books, all ready to send to her! Remember? She was the winner of our last drawing!)
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So, for the sauce, which is also really easy, scrape the seeds from a 1″ piece of vanilla bean, put it in a small pan with heavy cream and sugar, bring to a boil, stir and cool. Chill.
I tried the cake, as suggested, plain and unadorned, and it was wonderful. I have to say I would like to bite off all the chewy edges first (like corn on the cob), so good! BUT . . .
. . . then I added the sauce and this is when the heaven’s parted and this cake melted in my mouth becoming God’s Gift to the World; I was proud to be human and able to cook. The sauce turns it into a kind of pudding cake. Just delicious.
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You could also add the zest of either one orange or one lemon to the cake batter if you wanted. Probably currants too and even mini chocolate chips if you were so inclined. It’s a plain cake — and if it would be good with yellow tomato conserve, as the original recipe says, I think you could put it with anything. Mmmm, strawberries and whipped cream! ♥
OK, I guess that should keep you busy — that, and then of course, you have to leave a comment at the bottom of this post if you’re interested in the birds! We’ll let our Random Number Generator choose a winner for this drawing in a few days. See how the bottoms twist off for easy filling? Pretty wonderful!
OK girls, off I go. Scroll down to get the recipe if you want it.
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Also, btw, not sure if you know, but I moved the list of my Favorite Movies up to the top of the blog, under where it says, “All About Me” — click there, you’ll see the movies in the drop-down. In case you’re looking for them!
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Had to toss in a photo of this cheerful little cupcake. I bought the cupcake pan with the deep narrow pockets and the cupcake papers to go with it a while back at Ikea. I just found them on their website — the cupcake pan is red and only $10, and that’s the cupcake papers in the upper right hand corner of their page; aren’t they cute? I love mine and thought you might like them too. I bet you could make plain cupcakes from the milk cake recipe! I forget what recipe I used here; it was last winter, there were no flowers, so I stole this one from my African violet! I think I was thinking “spring” then too! Have a wonderful weekend girlfriends! XOXO
S A U C E for H O T M I L K C A K E
- 1″ piece vanilla bean
- 2 c. heavy cream
- 1/4 c. sugar
Slit vanilla bean in half lengthwise and scrape seeds into small saucepan. Stir in cream and bring to a boil. Add sugar, stir well, let it cool. Chill well.
H O T M I L K C A K E
- 1/2 c. hot milk with 1 rounded tsp. butter melted into it
- 2 eggs
- 1 c. sugar
- 1 c. flour, divided
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- pinch salt
- 1 tsp vanilla
Butter an 8″ square or round cake pan. Prepare milk and butter. Whisk eggs well in a med. bowl. Gradually whisk in sugar and beat well. Stir in 1/2 c. flour, the baking powder, salt, and vanilla. Stir in other 1/2 c. flour, then the hot milk/butter. Pour into cake pan; bake 40-45 min. Pour the chilled sauce into a dish and put a slice of cake on top. Enjoy.
Oh! I’ve never seen any S & P shakers twist off on the bottom like that! That’s genius! The little plastic caps we seem to get are just not as charming. So loved the milk cake recipe and photos.
Why can’t they make all salt and pepper shakers like that…that is too cool! The cake recipe sounds delicious and I look forward to making it this weekend. We, here in San Diego, are expecting some rain drops too – much needed!
Oh yes, I will make that cake on Saturday…it should be raining here in St George Ut..so good day to bake..And I love just love the cute green birds they would brighten up any kitchen….Thanks for the chance to win…
The little birds are lovely and would brighten up my table! I must make the Hot Milk Cake for our supper. It will go so well with our Broccoli Cheddar soup. Thanks for helping lighten a gray day here in the south!
Thank you for the milk cake recipe — looks delicious! And thank you for your beautiful blog. It’s always a source of comfort and happiness!
Thank you Susan, I needed a lift today. Love N.
Thank you Susan, You made my day. Love N.
Love the simple homespun cake and the tweetie birds. Thanks for the little rays of happiness!
oh, i just checked the Ikea website and they said the cupcake tins and papers are not for sale on their website. I was sad about that. Hope I can find them at our local kitchen store…
Please let me be the winner RNG!!! I love those little birds!
I am a new fan and discovered your blog last summer. Since then, I have signed up to receive your Willard newsletter and have purchased your Summer book and Christmas book! I have tried several of your recipes–they are all so simple and yummy! Love your generous heart and the company of all of the “girlfriends” on this blog! I’m hooked! I collect salt and pepper shakers and would love it if those two birds would wing their way across the Pacific Ocean to my home in Hawaii!
Tweet Tweet! Love these love birds:)
Dear Sue Sue!
I love your little birdie salt and pepper shakers! I have two birdies– namely Fawkes the Bird and Fleety Pie! The sweetest birdies ever with their own sweet personalities. They like to ride around on our shoulders and climb in the pocket of my fleece jacket and sit like little babies. ( they are budgies). Tah Tah for now, Chrissy
My sister had a Love Bird and they lived with me for a while — and bird is a wonderful sweet pet!
So very true!
Hello everyone, It’s freezing here in Indiana, lots of snow and ice here. Perfect weather for baking a cake! Those little bird shakers are so cute. Last week I found a pie bird that is similar, so I’d love these. Susan, the cake pedestal you designed is amazing. There has to be a company that would produce your wonderful designs. We are all proof that there’s a market for them! Wonderful pics of the violets. I’ve raised them for many years and still can’t get enough of them.
The birds are darling. My mom collected both birds and salt and pepper shakers. What a nostalgic walk down memory lane! And. . . can’t forget the hot milk cake ~ nothing beats it ~ make ours in a bundt pan and drizzle with chocolate sauce 🙂
Anything drizzled with chocolate sauce is good!!
I would have loved that beautiful domed cake plate! Enjoy the nice winter weekend ahead! I plan on sitting by the fire, reading and maybe I will do a little baking too. I am looking forward to your New York trip. Happy weekend 🙂
Oooh, that looks yummy! Who wouldn’t love those darling little birdies? Count me in and thank you so much!
Oh lucky ducky to win those sweet birdies…HOPE it is ME!!!! We are getting rain this weekend. I think I need to bake me a cake….YOURS!!!! XXX
Love the birdies,love the song…love that cake stand!!!!! These things need to be made!!! No one can come to this blog and not leave happy.Seriously,I think they did a study on it;) Thank you Susan for yet again sharing your wonderful self with us….xoxo Ruthie
What sweet little birds! The cake looks pretty darn sweet too — thank you for the recipe and the chance to win. 🙂
Ooh, ooh, ooh–those little birdies a so doggone cute. I do believe that IF I purchase that cupcake pan from Ikea, that it would be very easy to eat a dozen or so at a time because they’re so petite! Thank you for sharing your life with us.
Those are the most charming shakers I’ve seen. The cake looks pretty yummy too. Not thinking I’ve much of a chance they’ll end up on my bakers cabinet, but it would be awesome.
Susan,
Would love to to win those birdies, so cute! And I also am looking forward to trying the recipe, it’s right up my alley as I tend to really like simple cakes (they’re good for more than just dessert)… thank you!
p.s. What a beautifully designed cake plate, LOVE it!
I can’t make your cake (we have a gluten-free kitchen) but my mouth is watering just looking at it! I would love those little birds. They could join my flock of bird salt and pepper shakers. 🙂
Susan – I just checked and YEA!! I have all the ingredients to make the MILK CAKE and VANILLA SAUCE – good thing too because here in Connecticut we are supposed to get snow all day tomorrow. My husband plows snow in the winter so that means I will have all day to bake the cake and make the sauce so he can have a treat when he gets home. We have 5 kitties who are allowed on the center island in our kitchen – where they sit almost falling off the edge while I cook on the other counter. I just may need to share some of that heavenly heavy cream with them – after all, snow days are all about little treats! I love the little birdies – please include me in your random number machine. They would be so very cute on my kitchen window – little green birds of happiness!!
Thank you for making so many or our days brighter –
Susan, what a great, yet, quick cake recipe. It would have been a perfect match with a pot of tea on this wintery day. The snow was light and fluffy all morning here today. It would have been a good day to play hooky from work to enjoy this little piece of heaven. The little birds are the cutest things!!! Thanks for all the sharing you do!
Sounds just yummy! Almost strawberry season here in So. Cal – this would be perfect with plain berries and a little touch of whipped cream! Mouth watering while I write this!
Thank you for new twist on something old!
Love the birds bonus being green. Your’re the best.
Love the little green birdies…sign me up for a chance at the RNG please. <3
Susan, Thank you for sharing. I am excited about trying it. We freeze lots of blackberries that grow here on our land which I think would be perfect with it.
Becky
I’m crazy about little pairs of birds. I have several and love them. One of my pair belonged to my Great Aunt. I loved her home and so wanted those little fat birds I had admired since I was a child. Several years ago when she passed at 99 years old, my Mom got hold of those dear birdies and now they live with me! They have about four sets of friends here too! These would look adorable mixed into my Spring decorations, but they can also go with summer and the rest of the year they will look at me from a shelf somewhere around my home! Hopefully I will win the random drawing and they can migrate to live with me in warm TX. On another note, WHAT THE HECK WAS WATERFORD THINKING NOT GOING WITH YOUR DESIGNS! I love looking at your creativity. How much fun is it to be able to draw like that?!
Yum eeee, I will make that cake too! Count me in for the drawing.
Thank you for the recipe! The cake looks delicious! I always love the pictures of your beautiful kitties too!! Thanks for sharing!
I love your recipe! Just what I needed on a Friday night after a long week at work. I love reading your blog! It’s like talking to my best friend. I’d like a chance to win the salt and pepper shakers. We all need to be reminded that spring is on it’s way.
I always wondered where that song “Let’s All Sing Like the Birdies Sing” came from! The only place I have heard it before listening to your link was at Disney World in the Tiki Bird attraction. Thanks for bringing back such fun memories. I want to make the cake this weekend and hope you’ll post more pictures of BOTH kitties! If I win the birdie s&p shakers, I am sharing with my friend who is also hoping to win. We figure we have a double chance!
Love, love, love the bird salt and pepper shakers!!!
Hello Susan! Those adorable little birdie salt and pepper shakers could fly onto
my antique kitchen bench to rest and I would cherish them forever!!! They make me smile! After I shovel the snow tomorrow morning, I will be baking the Milk Cake…..maybe in the heart shape cake pan my mother used when I was a little girl.
I can’t wait!!! I enjoyed the bird song. It reminded me of the old records my grandmother would play for us when it was a rainy day at her cottage in northern Michigan. All of my cousins and I could sit around her antique record player and listen for hours playing checkers until every single record was heard! Memories.
Thanks for the charming Friday post. I’d love to win those darling birdies and have them ‘fly’ down to GA. Fingers crossed!!!
The adorable little bird salt and pepper shakers are perfect for ushering in Spring. Soooo hope I win!!! Until then, I will make the plain little cake that looks absolutely delicious and serve it with a cup of tea on a cold winter’s night.
Hi Susan
Cute birds….love all the eye candy on this blog….wow!..all your dishes that you own are just darling…thanks for sharing …happy weekend to ya!
Just got home from a long day, but had to see if you had posted a new blog, and yeah, it made my day. I can always take time to see what’s new from you and your blog ALWAYS lifts my spirits and inspires me in so many ways. A perfect way to end my day! Thanks so much.
OMG! Susan, when I saw those birdies, I thought they would be a perfect giveaway – and then I read your message! They are adorable! And they would enjoy the company of my other birds I collect. I have followed you for as long as I can remember and love your watercolors the most! I love your scrapbooking kits, too, and calendars and notecards and stationary, and the list goes on. You are good for my soul! Thank you for all you do!!
The bird S&P’s are so sweet! If I should be lucky enough to win them, I would give them to my girlfriend who collects old S&P’s. These would be such a special addition. I’ll keep the cake for myself, though!
oh my~ so adorable these sweet sweet birdies!! reminds me of my grandma, and now I am a granny myself! so come on random number pick a doodle! pick my number!
meanwhile Sweet Sue thank you for your brand of sunshine and hope you shine for us. keeps me hopeful on a gloomy day.
I especially love signing onto your blog while riding the bus to work, the lil tweeting birdie always has folks randomly looking around with perplexed looks~ “did I really just hear that!?”
have a great weekend. You are loved and appreciated!
~ keep those Jack tales coming!!!
Yum! I (too?) am having trouble keeping my resolve to abstain from sweets before “our” trip to New York at the end of the month! Glad to hear I am in such good company and have an excuse to bake! Thank you! Can’t wait to try this!
Your cake recipe looks yummy, but I have a silly question. How do you do that vanilla bean thing? Where do you get vanilla beans??? I told you it was a silly question :).
At the supermarket or at a good kitchen store, or very likely you can google them and find them on line. Not silly … it isn’t something we use every day!
Love the bird salt and peppers shakers with the bottoms coming off like they do. I am going to have to make the cake – sounds yummy just plain or with any of the sweet adornments and I am not even a cake eater. The old fashionednes of it is wonderful!
Oh, how absolutely wonderful to win these adorable salt & pepper shakers! I used to get your letters in the mail all the time, and have just “found” you again on the internet. Good to be back where I can see your work!
Susan, Although I’ve loved your books and products for a long time, this is my first time writing to you. I have been amazed for years at our similar likes and taste–in everything from Peter Rabbit figurines, to pastel quilts, to the books you like. I could go on and on, but when I saw that recipe for hot milk cake I was astonished. My favorite aunt made that cake every Christmas that I can remember. She got the recipe from my grandmother (who died before I was born) and called it “Christmas Hot Milk Cake.” In our family version there was a frosting consisting of 1/2 cup coconut, 5 tablespoons of brown sugar, 3 tablespoons of cream, 3 tablespoons of butter, and 1/2 cup of pecans. This was mixed, heated and spread on top of the cake. Then the cake was put under the broiler until brown and toasted. Try it. When my aunt passed away I inherited the square pan she made that cake in for years. My treasure.
Thanks for making this cake famous. Drucye from Georgia
Yum! That sounds wonderful!
Love your blog-have it on a RSS feed. Each entry is a joy–thanks so much!
Would love to give the bird shakers a good home in my kitchen. They could watch the juncos, chickadees, wrens, finches, robins, and cardinals outside from our Texas windows.
What a neat recipe. I love the simple things in life. We have an old family recipe that dates back to about Civil War times. It is called Bob Andy Pie. It is a favorite in our family of the ones who were raised eating it, but we have had trouble bringing our spouses on board to the enjoyment of this desert.
Sounds interesting, I love the name! Would love to hear the recipe!
“Let’s All Sing Like The Birdies Sing” – wonderful music to read your by. Would love to make a home for the birdie salt and pepper shakers!
It’s finally looking and acting like winter here in Chicago (6 new inches of beautiful white, fluffy snow) so baking a cake sounds like the perfect winter activity. I am going to bake the Hot Milk Cake tomorrow and enjoy it with some fresh berries and the vanilla sauce – Yum! Thank you for a new “old” recipe. 🙂
Thank you for the recipe. Will try it tomorrow. I also would have bought the lovely cake plate – I’m sorry it was never made. Have a great weekend.
I love the bird salt and pepper shakers. They remind me of my mother’s love of birds. I love your blog. I wish my mom was still here to read it every day.
I love reading your blog! My sister got me hooked on it and it’s like a little getaway! I’m a catlover, too, so I enjoy seeing the antics of Jack and Girl Kitty. I received some Baby Love fabric and Susan Branch scrapbook kit and stickers for Christmas that I’m enjoying. Love to print the free bookmarks, too!
Love those little birds! As usual you have brightened up my day. Thank you!
Your blog is my happy place. Thanks for welcoming all us “Girlfriends” into your home.
The birds are so SPRING! And thanks for the recipe. I think I will make it for my quilting friends when my bee meets at my house. That sauce looks fantastic.
Yum! Can’t wait to try this recipe, I’m sure my husband will love it, as he just loves plain cake. I love that it’s like a blank canvas that you can do so many things with! Nasty, cold weather here this weekend, perfect for baking. I don’t know if you get tired of hearing this, but you really do just make my day! I always feel so much better after reading any of your blogs – the creativity inspires me and your writing just lifts my heart! Thank you, thank you!!!
Hi Susan,
I was in the middle of making a new recipe that I saw on TV today of oatmeal cookies with raisins soaked in rum. (I love a well stocked pantry for spur of the moment baking.) Then I sat down to read your blog. Sooo….I’m going to just bake off a few cookies to “taste test” and put the rest of the dough in the freezer for later. It’s too late tonight, but it’s going to be Hot Milk Cake baking day tomorrow! Can’t wait to try it. LOVE the birdies. Thanks for cheering us up all the time.
Yes! Raining here in California and cake is a very good idea! Thank you for this lovely blog.
What an adorable little baking assistant you have 🙂
The cake looks delish & I love the colour of the little s&p shakers ♥
Have a great weekend Susan.
Oh, I love those little love bird s & p shakers!! I have a s & p collection and like to decorate with them…I still have my little champagne holder and bottle set out for the new year. I suppose it’s time for the Valentine hearts…oooh those little birds would be perfect for my spring-time decorations..how can you bear to part with them?
I love this simple recipe…reminds me of a pound cake recipe in my file of favorites…my mouth is watering for the sauce…all of my fave ingredients!! Love the S & Ps…will feather a nest for them, just in case…thank you for the info on the cupcake pan..I have an IKEA a mere 10 minute drive from me..they have the most interesting things…Tall cupcakes like that would be darling for a baby shower I am hosting in March…xoThank you, as always!!
LOVE the birds!! So cute. 🙂
Yes, love the idea of baking the Milk Cake in my heart-shaped pan. Snow should be falling when we wake up…perfect time to get that cake in the oven! Now I get how to enter my name for your fun drawings…LOVE those bird salt and pepper shakers..Thanks again for all you do, Susan!
Love, love,love!!
I love the newspaper cut out with it’s vintage feel. Please count me in for the adorable bird salt and pepper pots….ohhhh green my favourite colour!
Many thanks for your lovely posts.
OOOH…..I love those little birds! Thank you for gifting them to one of your girlfriends. You are so sweet!
Those little birds are so cute! And thank you for the cake recipe. It’s supposed to rain tomorrow, so it will be a perfect day to bake a cake.
Would love to have those cute green birds fly to my house in Virginia.
I have a wonderful hot milk cake recipe I make in a bundt pan. Calls for 4 eggs and a tsp. each of vanilla and almond extract….YUM! I used to make one for a Bible study we hosted and my husband always wanted me to pre-slice it and hide some for later, as it always disappeared. I finally began baking one for the study and one for home! I have a Holly Hobbie plate I always use for the cake, but sure wish I had your cake stand/cover…what a shame Wedgewood fumbled on that decision! Please count me in for the S&P shakers. They are so sweet and I would love to offer them a home. ^i^
Would love to have those cute green birds fly to my home in Virginia.
Dear Mr. Random Number Generator,
I absolutely love the birdie salt and pepper shakers! I hope my love vibes will reach you! 🙂
Your blog always seems like a warm hug on a cold day. Love those little green feathered friends! Absolutely charming.
I’m sure the birdies would love to join my vintage pie birds! I’m going to make the plain cake this weekend…it’s snowy and really cold here in Montana, and I have no intention of going out!
Oh! Would love to receive the gift of these darling birds! Pick me, pick me she said with hands waving to you across the skies!
Oh how adorable the birds are !! Would love them 🙂
Hi, Susan (and all you girlfriends, too!)
I’ve been waiting for this post since you teased us a couple of days ago….so happy to find it tonight! This looks like the perfect little cake for all of us watching our calories ….simple…understated…but perfectly delicious without any frosting. Kinda like wearing a little black dress….it’s all in the accessories! The pretty plate, the lace napkin, the crocheted doilie….can’t wait to indulge!
As for those sweet little birds…there are no words…they caught my breath the first time I saw them a couple of days ago and really made me smile at seeing them again tonight.
I’ll be cleaning and adding some Valentine touches around my house this weekend…just received your LOVE book and the SWEET TREATS book in the mail along with the dishtowels….just the inspiration I need to get me going!
Have a wonderful weekend, all, and remember to tell your loved ones just how much they mean to you….3 little words….I LOVE YOU…while you have the chance.
xoxoDebbie
oooooo…little green birds!!they are so lovely!thanks for another great blog post,and for the chance to win! 🙂
Hi Susan,
I loved your post showing your dishes. I discovered Emma a while back and have collected her “Rise and Shine” pattern with the rooster on it. Bunnykins is another type of china I look for on the internet and when I’m out antiqueing. I also collect green handled Kitchen utensils which hang on a burgundy wall above my kitchen. The bird salt and pepper shakers would look so wonderful along with the above. I will add making cake to my weekend plans. Keep warm
Marianne from Colorado
Yum! The hot milk cake is just about the same as hubby’s great grandmother’s recipe. He grew up on it. I think my mother-in-law has a vanilla sauce recipe that goes with it too, I’ll have to check.
You can put the sweet little birdie s/p shakers on your windowsill, give them a nudge and have them fly right up to me in Maine! 😉 Happy happy weekend to you and all the girlfriends.
Oh I love, love these salt and pepper shakers. How cool that the bottoms unscrew … very easy to fill that way!
Susan, I love all that you do….all of it make our world a better place.
I collect cups and saucers, china, teapots, footed cake plates, but
not salt and pepper shakers. I think NOW would be an excellent time
to start….with the sweet little birdies. Rachel
Ok, I’m putting my name in the pot.
I do love the birdies. 🙂
And the recipe looks wonderful. Might try it this weekend,
The little birds are so sweet. I just love your style. I think preowned things have more character and have received twice as much love.
I can’t begin to tell you how much I love your blogs and Willards. You have been such a ray of sunshine in my life. I am always amazed at how much we are alike in the things that we appreciate and enjoy. The little birds are darling! Thank you for the time you spend sharing with others.
Would LOVE the cute little bird salt and pepper shakers! I would set them on my window sill so that I could see them as I look out at my feeders and watch the real birds!
2 of my favorite things… Recipes and beautiful things for the Kitchen!!! I love your blog so much!!! 🙂 ~Tina
The milk cake looks yummy. Reminds me of Golden Crumb Cake (Jim Forbes’ recipe).
I love seeing the little birds! They are so cheery, especially at the tail end of a big snowstorm out here. ♥
I love birds (have two of my own) and I love cake! How can you go wrong with that! <3 Thanks for the recipe. I like simple and light on the sugar so I'll be trying this one SOON! (cmon RNG, pick me!) 🙂
Have a great weekend, Susan!
Rain is heading our way, too! I’m baking a birthday cake for my son who turned 20 (!) this month. Thank you for the milk cake recipe! I so look forward to your blog — it brightens my day! And, I admire how creative and fun you are!
As the rain pours down outside, baking seems like all I want to do. Well, besides have a cup of tea and snuggle in! Think I’ll get to work on that milk cake…with teenagers in the house, it won’t last long 🙂
The bird S&P shakers are just darling. Are they made in England perhaps? The green is just lovely. Thanks for sharing them.
The little green birdies are adorable! I’m crossing my fingers that the RNG will pick me!! 🙂 I love the little cupcakes…I think a trip to Ikea is in order to track down the pan and papers so I can bake tiny cupcakes for my Valentine’s tea party. Thank you for the inspiration, Susan! You’re the best! ♥
Love those little birds!!! Would love to be the lucky winner, and I’m going to make the milk cake to take to a friend tomorrow along with a pot of soup. Just the thing for rainy weather… Thank you, Susan!
Oh those little green birds are so cute! I can just see them sitting on my window sill. I enjoy reading your beautiful blog and just signed up for the Willard newsletter. Thank you for the delicious recipe ( I made a similar hot milk cake recipe for a restaurant I worked for many years ago-we cut the cake in half and filled the center with lemon curd and topped with fancy whipped cream swirls -so refreshing).
Such a lovely springlike post Susan…gets my heart a fluttering! Definitely going to do up one of those yummylicious Milk Cakes yummmmm yum 8) I’ve never seen S&P shakers like that.. tweetylicious! Wondering where you found them?? (Just in case I dont WIN em lol) Susan I love your blog…it makes my soul soar!
Have a BEEutiful weekend!