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.
Hello Susan,
Thank you for the recipe, I’m baking that cake tonight !It’s been snowing here in CT since last night (Yay! finally) so a piece of that cake with some hot cocoa will be the perfect thing while we snuggle up to watch a movie.
The little bird shakers are adorable, so unique, I’ve never seen ones that open at the bottom like that!
I must say that I am feeling a bit of frustration seeing all of your beautiful designs that never came true! The cake plate is exquisite, I would buy that in a heartbeat if it existed…maybe all this discussion will come to the attention of some smart manufacturer, let’s hope so.
A happy weekend to you and all the girlfriends!
Karen
Your cake looks delicious! And I have to say that whomever you submitted your designs to for china and glassware made a big mistake by not producing them. The world would have been a better place with your cake plate in our kitchens!
My roommate in college had jam from her Grandma that I have never heard of before or since. It was called “Ground Cherry” and it would be delicious on your cake. The ground cherries were little yellow tomato like fruit that had a wispy covering like tomitillas (sp?). Anyway maybe one of the girlfriends knows something. It was soooo wonderful, I wish I would have gotten a recipe! Love to you, love those little birds!
Look for ground cherry preserves in an old-fashioned country store in an Amish area — that’s a possible source — I too was introduced to those delicious preserves by my college roomie’s mother’s homemade ones — SO good and she was so pleased that I not ony TRIED them but fell in love with them that she sent an entire precious jar home with me after my visit. Lovely memory of a lady who became like a second mother and whom I called Mom for many years. My roomie and I are still best friends who visit often – I am “Aunt” to her grown son and now “Great Aunt” to his infant son. Good luck finding the preserves.
Oh, Susan! I would love to have your little birdie salt and pepper shakers! They are wonderful. But then you are wonderful. So now I’m off to make a big pot of clam chowder for supper and a milk cake for eating in jammies while I watch a movie tonight 🙂
My best friend of almost 48 years (first day of Nursing School) passed away yesterday – was only diagnosed on Jan 3 and already gone – but at peace and at home in heaven….great for her, not so good for the rest of us. I have been fielding emails and calls from friends continuously since yesterday afternoon and since I subscribe by email for your blog updates…..an update from you came into my email this morning…thank you for a couple of minutes away from the hard truth. I decided to post a comment since both K. and I share a love of all things old and cozy and the birds touched my heart. We also share your Rose Chintz china pattern….K.s Mother has the pattern as do I. Thank you Susan for lifting spirits with ordinary everyday pleasures…..really the things that add up to a happy life.
So very sorry Helen. Makes me sad to hear, so glad you’re here.
Helen, you will be in our thoughts and prayers.
Helen, blessings to you during this difficult time.
Helen…what a very special friendship that sounds like it became more like “family”. Blessings to you during this difficult time.
Dear Helen, so sorry to hear of your loss. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your best friends family. Oh, I so hope you get picked to have the birds. That way, whenever you look at them, you will always have your friend close at heart. Take care.
So sorry about your friend Helen. God bless you. That is so hard to lose a best friend.
Love, Love, Love those birds! I have loved your art work for years and so glad I found the blog! I’m going to recommend it to my daughter too!
The milk cake sounds great…the perfect activity for a snowy day! Although I’m not sure which is more fun…baking the cake or eating it in front of a fire! Hope you are having a cozy day! 🙂
My mother baked that cake for years. It was a favorite recipe of hers. She always called it a “Hot Milk Sponge Cake” and, I must say, she often did frost it. It is actually very good with a chocolate butter frosting. Another thing she sometimes did was to serve squares of this cake with vanilla ice cream on top and either strawberries or warm chocolate sauce.
Those birds are adorable and I would love to win them. Spring seems a long way off and they might make it seem closer.
Brr, it is cold today! We had an ice/sleet/snow event last night and now it is white and windy. Thankfully we didn’t lose power, I needed a cup of hot tea as I sat reading a Victorian mystery and listening to the sleet hitting the windows. I change the salt and pepper shakers on my stovetop to fit the seasons, those sweet little birds would have a wonderful new home for the Springtime.
That cake sounds so good and easy to make which is what I need right now. I love the little birds, they are just too adorable. Good luck girlfriends, one of us is going to be very lucky to have them. Thank you for sharing with us Susan, you are too generous.
Michelle
These little birdies are precious! They need to come and perch on the windowsill over my kitchen sink and keep me company.
Birds are one of my favorite things. They would look so purrfect with my other birds…birds of a feather… I sure wish you could have your Lenox….it is so beautiful. Thanks for being so kind and sharing.
That cake sounds so good and so easy which is what I need right now. The birds are so adorable. Good luck girlfriends, one of us is going to be very lucky to have them. Thank you for sharing them with Susan you are so generous.
Michelle
The little birds are so cute! Thanks for this giveaway!
oh birdies… you could fly to my house and i’d take such good care of you and think of sweet susan every time i used you <3
The bird salt and pepper shakers are so cute, and the cake recipe sounds delicious.
I definitely want the tiny green birds!! They are adorable and scream SPRINGTIME!!!
No snow for us here in Georgia…had some thunderstorms this morning, but the clouds are clearing and the sun just popped out. Maybe I should pop on over to the grocery for some ingredients to make that yummy cake. Love you, Susan!!
Love the little cupcake! I’m going to Ikea’s website to look for the pan.
My dearest friend of 48 years recently passed away. K. and I shared a love of all things old and cozy and these birds just touched my heart so decided to leave a comment. We also your share your Rose Chintz china pattern:)….k’s mother has it as do I. Thanks Susan for your warm and friendly posts – a few minutes away from the hard truth. Everyday pleasures….in the end are what makes up a happy life.
My dad was an avid bird-watcher and the 5 of us kids thought that we would certainly not inherit such a pasttime……but alas, we have and having the cute salt and pepper shakers in the kitchen would be another reminder of my dad’s legacy.
As for the cake, all I can say is…..”Let us break cake together!” Kindred hearts and kindred spirits….that’s girlfriends.
Ymmmmmm….the cake sounds so good! And today just might be a great day to try it….its’ rainy here in California! Love the birdie salt and pepper shakers….my Aunt Lee has a huge and beautiful collection of shakers. She has collected for more years than I can remember! I believe she has more than 400 pr. in her collection….I’d love to add the birdies to it! Thanks for all the wonderful recipes, etc. I love and look forward to your blog each day. Have a great day! Loretta/California
Absolutely LOVE the bird salt and pepper shakers 🙂 I woke up this morning to my 15 year old son baking a cinnamon roll cake. I love that he’s inherited my love of baking and boy was it good. I’ll pass this recipe along to him next and we’ll try this as well. Thanks for bringing yumminess into our house. Stay warm … Spring is on it’s way!
Mmmmm…. Hot Milk Cake with Vanilla Sauce. Really, what could be better on a cold, wet, windy day like today! Thank’s for sharing that good, old-fashioned recipe with us. (I can’t stop thinking about the chewy crust on the edge of the cake).
Love, love the cute bird S&P-
Susan…..oops! I had tried 3 different times to post previously and it sent a message that it didn’t go through…..and now I see multiple postings! Thanks for removing all but the one that I am entitled to:)
Don’t worry Helen, we have gremlins, things are strange on the blog . . . it won’t matter if it’s up more than once!
The cake recipe is just fantastic!! Other than a chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting..I prefer cake with no frosting..this is right up my alley!! I think I would let some vanilla ice cream get melty..then drizzle either some warmed current jelly or apricot jam around in the melted ice cream..makes my tummy rumble just to think about it!! I can see the birdies on either side of a pot of mini daffodils on my windowsill..What says Spring more than that?? <3<3
I love birds. I was photographing the hungry little ones at my feeders all morning! These little salt and pepper shakers are so adorable. They would be perfect on my kitchen window sill to gaze at their counterparts outside.
Yum! And I love little birdies!
I am now hungry for cake and I can hear the birds singing that they would love to be in my home among my green depression collection. I would love to have them in my display cabinet. I would also have loved the beautiful cake plate. Now it is time to make some cake.
My sweet 6 year old is helping me make the cake! He loves watching cooking shows and wants to know when yours is on! Thanks for the recipe! Love those birdies!
oh, I love these little birds! I used to have parakeets, and am an avid bird feeder/watcher! Hope Hope Hope I win!
The cake sounds delicious and like you say you can do so much with it! Love your dish designs, hope we can encourage wedgewood to do them!
xoxoxo
A perfect post for a snowy day in IN! & the birdies singing give hope for spring! Thank you so much for the cake recipe – can’t wait to try it out for some friends with tea!
omgsh! I am so trying this cake!! and will put home made whipped cream on it!! yum!
and I, too, would just love to win the “little birds”! so cute! and also …
I would love your Small Cake Domed Dish as well!!! so beautiful!
You make me smile, Susan! and hum “Let’s all Sing LIke the Birdies Sing!. One day closer to Spring!
Pink Hugs,
Dee
OK … tried the cake …. yummie!!! w/whipped cream/fresh red raspberries! and tomorrow I will use strawberries! To me, this is not a really sweet cake, which I like, and that made if perfect for me! Thank you, Ms. Susan! This recipe will be repeated!! 🙂
Pink Hugs,
Dee
I cannot wait to try that cake…. tomorrow for sure! I would love to have those birdies decorating a shelf in my new kitchen… soon. We hope to find a place to live in March and get settled here in our new location. I love your blogs and never fail to read them at least twice. Here birdie! Here birdie!
m
Getting out my square vintage cake pan and baking that cake! I think it might be scrumptious with lemon sauce as well :).
Thanks for sharing, Susan.
Dear Susan –
Since my earlier post is still awaiting moderation — here it is again:
Good morning Susan!
Those darling little birds would be a perfect birthday gift for me as today is my birthday! Just reading your blog is a blessing – it makes me feel cozy and loved, thank you for writing. Please, RNG pick me for the birdies.
Happy Birthday Patricia!!!!
The little birdies are so sweet. I have a few here and there but could always use two more.
Oh how I would love to add these 2 birds to my collection. I’ve been collecting different little birds for about 3 years now. They are so sweet!!!
Just yesterday we had a little Tufted Titmouse bird hit our window and was a little stunned on our back porch. My children all had the joy of petting the little bird and waiting for it to regain its strength and fly off. It was a very sweet experience.
Recently a friend told me that her husband’s favorite cake was Hot Milk Cake. I’ve never made it. Thank you for sharing it and for the adorable cupcake picture. My daughter loves to bake and those cupcakes are so neat.
Today is a cake baking day. I’ve been baking a chocolate cake for my son’s 13th birthday tomorrow.
Nancy
Snow has arrived here also and now everything feels normal. Love the crocheted pink pot holder in this post and the bird shakers are adorable. Thanks for the giveaway, one of us girlfriends will enjoy them. I have never seen this Milk Cake and am looking forward to baking it. La-De-Daa!
Hi Susan Ahhhhh..finally got my computer to load the site. I’m really not trying to “stuff the ballot box” but wasn’t sure my email reply would count as a comment and I do so love those little birdies! I am going to try a Vegan adaptation on the cake using whole wheat pastry flour, vanilla soy milk, Earth Balance spread, and flax seed egg substitute. Will let you know how it turns out. Thanks for a lovely post, Blessings from sunny (!) California
Debbie Borne
Oh what a sweet (or should I saw tweet) giveaway!!!!…they have a place waiting right beside my bunny cookie jar …thanks so much for the chance to have these little sweeties <3 ~Kathleen~
Hope those cuties wing their way to me!
Thank you for the Milk Cake recipe. Years ago a friend’s mother made a milk cake that had a layer of fruit through it. Think she used peaches. Makes me remember how much I loved it!
Wish your dishes would have been made, I would have made some purchases by seeing the pictures that you’ve shared. As with everything else, you are so talented. The design on the lid & other glass that you showed reminds me of the design on a set of glasses that my Dad (who is in his 80’s) still has that were from when he & my Mom married. They “went” with the pink rosebud china. He has them still in his china cabinet. I always thought the design etched on them was so pretty.
Thank you again for always sharing so much of yourself!
Thank you for the milk cake recipe. If I had heavy cream to make the sauce I’d go bake that cake right now!!
Never have I seen a salt and pepper set like this before – they
I enjoy your blog very much and have gleaned so much information from it – THANK YOU for taking the time to write 🙂
Adorable! Thank you for moving the favorite movies section; originally I tried to print it for easy reference but I thought better of it and will check the website instead. Any chance of getting some of the out of stock items before Valentine’s Day?
The cake sounds yummy and I LOVE the birds! My kitchen is decorated with vintage ceramic birds very much like them—on corner cabinet shelves. They would be a wonderful addition! I live in northern Idaho and over the last 3 days we’ve had snow, frozen rain, and now it’s melting out—good skiing in the mountains tho! I have beef/veg soup in the crockpot and bread baking! It is a wonderful life!
Thank you for the recipe! I love a plain cake. My favorite cookie (we called Grandma Greene cookies) were plain, cake-like. She gave me the recipe once which of “some of” and “about” amounts – of course, mine did not turn out like hers, so then she revised it with better “amounts”. I love that I have it in her handwriting!! I think your cake would be the bomb dot com under your designed dome lid, but would have to make it in a round pan or perhaps just nibble the squares off before hand.
I sure would love to be the winner of the delightful pair of birdie salt & peppa shakers. They would surely have a good home and be loved!! I’m crazy that they screw off and on on the bottoms- very unusual. I’m sure whoever wins will also give them a loving home, very generous of you.
I have on a pot of chili, perfect for a rain filled day. We just got back to town after an unexpected stay in FL (weather was beautiful there). I keep remembering the droughts we’ve had before and think – oh let it pour!!
Many hugs & thanks for the best blog! L. xo
I think your birds would be very happy nesting on my kitchen counter. HINT HINT! They are my favorite shade of green. The milk cake sounds very good. Much better than the milk fluff we made in my first Homemaking class about 50 years ago! I don’t remember much about it except it probably wasn’t very good. Even the name sounds strange! How about the old recipes that started with ” you will need 18 eggs and 2 cups of lard” or something like that? Those were the good old days! That was before they invented cholesterol! Keep warm! 🙂
Oh that milk cake is so yummy on a cold winter’s day with a cup of mint tea! I agree that it would have looked charming under the lid of the lenox cake plate. Tweet Tweet – Spring will be here before you know it! Until then good writing on your book, keep warm and cozy! Thank you for always brightening my days!
I’ll be making that lovely cake this tomorrow, sure does look good, bet a lemon sauce would be tasty on it.
And, I have to say that reading about your kittys makes me want to have another one…………..meow!
Thank you so much, Susan, for sharing the recipe as well as the cute little birdies. . . If I am the lucky winner, I’ll give the shakers to my mother, who has been an avid bird-lover for most of her 88 years—-but I know I will be a winner with my family when I make the cake! It sounds quite perfect, and I will be trying it SOON—winter has finally arrived with a vengeance in the Chicago area, and I’ve got the Baking Bug. 🙂
Putting my name in…”RNG be good to me!”
The cake looks wonderful..will give it a go tonight.
And would love those little birds! They would brighten an otherwise cloudy, cold day in Kansas.
No matter how cold it gets here in Montana…your blogs always warm my heart and bring a smile to my day!!! Those little birds are darling….and a promise of springtime!
oH how those little birds would love my kitchen window on this gray wintry
day in TX. (not so cold as damp and dreary)… they would sit perched next to my blooming paperwhites and sing of Spring to Come …..
Pick me – Pick me – Pick me 🙂
It looks as if you may be getting snow, Susan…enjoy…
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the darling bird salt and pepper shakers….what a lovely additon they would be to my kitchen window shelf…making me smile everyday! Would love to be the lukcy winner….I am assuming this is where I post to be put in the drawing…sure hope so! Have wonderful days! xo xo xo Raenell
Hi there Susan,
I am SO GLAD this recipe arrived in my email today. The family is off to the big city of Casper for essentials shopping and I am staying home baking and cooking (Molasses cookies, turkey meatloaf, and cream cheese potatoes for tomorrow’s meal) and making the place smell AWESOME.
I am in love with the birdies, and would love to adorn our small, new dining room table with such a breath of spring.
Hugs,
Rejena
Have to try this cake as I am not a big chocolate fan. This looks yummy. I hope it is not too late for the birds. I love them. They would be great addition to my Salt & Pepper collection. Love your art work!
I sure do love the little green bird salt and pepper shakers..they are just so darn charming and would be a lovely addition to my kitchen, making me smile everyday! Thanks for the chance to be the lucky winner! Hope so!! xo xo xo Raenell
Dear Sue, Let’s all sing like the birdies sing…I heard the little s&p birdies singing Nothing Could Be Finer Than to be in Carolina…so I’m sure they’d love to flit down to my windowsill in South Carolina. 🙂
I saw on wunderground.com that you were going to get snow! I loved the photo that you posted on Twitter! Lots and lots of rain for us here today.
The domed green cake stand is adorable! I’ll take one! And I love how you added let your kitty watch in your cake instructions!
To the girlfriend who mentioned the cooling rack Ikea does have a very good cooling rack, though not all wood like yours, I use mine all the time. I bought it at Ikea store while visiting my daughter in Atlanta so not sure if it’s available online. XO SusanL
Hi Susan, Precious little birds and green, my favorite color. I wish I was a more eloquent writer. I just can say with sincerity, thank you for this blog. I look forward to it every day. It has inspired me to try many different things. Muchas gracias. Joyce
Hi~
FYI~ I just got the early spring issue of Country Gardens magazine and there is an article about the cottage gardens of Beatrix Potter. There is the cutest picture from Cecily Parsley’s Nursery rhymes~ my favorite!
Susan,
What a blessing of cheer you are on a cold, dreary, coughing kind of day.
Thank you! Carol
those salt and pepper shakers are adorable! thanks for your genorosity, as always, friend Susan. the milk cake looks delicious, but sadly, i just ran out of flour cuz i just baked three loaves of bread! come on over! have a great weekend!
It’s a snowy day here in NY (finally!) and the birds outside are busy at the birdfeeder (which I am so glad I filled yesterday, bet they are too!)
It is a lovely, cozy afternoon. Thank you for your hot milk cake recipe – I added it to my recipe box while listening to Charles Trenet (whom YOU introduced me to!). Will definitely make the cake sometime soon, but today calls for lemon bars. I am going to share them with my mom and aunt later today 🙂 Take care ~~ Rebecca
Love the little birds with their twist-off bottoms. I hope they make their home at my house.
I bet my sister will make the cake–she’s the baker in the family. I only make cherry pies.
The milk cake sounds wonderful. I will definitely be making it. I would to win the bird salt and pepper shakers. They are soooo cute!!!
Cute birds and the cake sounds wonderful.
I so love those birdies and am hoping they will fly right over to my house. That cake sounds divine. Thanks for the giveaway.
Love the post and love the little birdies 🙂 Reminds me of something my grandmother would’ve had! So, so cute!
Love, love, Love the birds! I’ve loved your art for many years. So glad I found the site and the blog!
I was trying to find yesterday’s post to add to it but with over 600 comments I give up! 😉 I have the milk cake cooling on the stove….will give Mother a piece tonight and find out if she made/ate it anytime in her 97 years….have a suspicion she did! IKEA turns out not to be a favorite of mine! No store in our state and they will not sell the cake pan on the website! ;-( The hunt is on!
First, thank you for your wonderful blog. I’m afraid I am hooked.
Loved the idea of the deep cupcake pan. I will look on line and get my order
in, then try your recipe that way. I love birds of all kinds and would love to
showplace these in my home. Donna
Everything about your blog calms my spirit. Thank you for being so sincere about simple beauty.
Hi Susan,
Oh that cake sure makes me hungry. Thanks for sharing the recipe. After a long day of baking here, as we are having company tommorrow to cheer on our favorite football team the “Patriots”, it was ever so relaxing to just read your blog. Love those “birdies” you are giving away. Even my husband commented on them as he was heading out and saw them on the web.
We had snow here about three inches yesterday and today about six inches.
My husband just refilled our two feeders this afternoon and put up two more suet cakes for our plethra of birds. We have many “juncos”, “tufted titmouse”,
“cardinals”, “bluejays”, “finches”, “nuthatches”, “chickadees”, and many woodpeckers which include “red-bellied woodpecker” and we nicknamed this bird big red. We also have several “downy woodpeckers” and they all have nick names as well.
Thanks for sharing the big picture of all your dishes in the open pantry. I really think this picture should go on one of your cards or even maybe you could make it into a print as its just that beautiful.
Have a great weekend Susan!
Barb
Susan, I love the receipe for the milk cake and love the idea of letting my kitty watch even more. I am in love with Jack. My mother collected birds and I would love the salt & pepper shakers to have in her memory. They are lovely. Thank you so much for all your art and love for us. Pat
Tweet…….I hope you pick me!!!!
Hi Susan-
You always find something wonderful for us and this wintery dinner dessert or tea will be just the ticket. This will definately warm up my Wisconsin kitchen and make the house smell yummy!!!! Those salt and pepper birds are adorable and love anything vintage. I know anyone would be thrilled to have them especially coming from you.
Thank you for such clear instructions and pictures that go with your Hot Milk Cake recipe. Ive never heard of this cake but I just know if you love it, it must be delectable!
By the way I have always loved vintage green glass and your watercolor of the green cake stand is just lovely! You really are talented.
Cheers-Jamie 🙂
I love that cake stand you designed!! Just gorgeous!!!!
The milk cake looks delicious! I’ve always loved plain cakes, like pound cake and angel food cake. When I was young, my sisters and brothers and I spent a lot of time with my aunt and she baked many different things for us. One of my favorites was her pound cake, which I called bread cake because they were baked in loaf pans, and to my young mind, they looked like bread! I’ve written the milk cake recipe down and will try it tonight.
Susan, As usual enjoying your wonderful blog…I think the cake sounds scrumptious…Your recipes are sooo good! I made your Chicken Enchiladas last evening…and my hubby….just Mmmmmed…& Mmmmmmed….it was just so good! I think the secret is in the cream!!… Happy January Saturday….:)
My aunt gave me a recipe like this. I used to make it for when my kids came home from school. I always served it with a lemon sauce. (No extra lemon in the cake.) My aunt loves it with concord grape jelly! Yummy anyway you serve it.
La De Daa I love thos pretty birds!! And your cake recipe sounds perfect for a cold and icy evening here in Northern Virginia. I saw The Artist this afternoon – a really good, fun, special movie. Terrific for old movie lovers!!
I love the birds! They would look great with my Beatrix Potter figurines!
The cake looks delicious too. I can’t wait to try on the next snow day!
Oh the birdies are just so sweet. I collect salt and pepper shakers and they would look lovely on my shelf 🙂
I have all your books and have the happiest memory of discovering your first book all those years ago at my favorite bookshop now closed. Thank you for such a cheerful, adorable blog! Love you, Diane
this cake sounds like one my mom used to make. i’ll give it a try. simple is best. i love the little birds and would like to have them for my own. thank you for offering them.
Cheery birds and a lovely recipe to brighten up a grey day, and to remind us that grey won’t always be the color of the day! I think we’ll top our cake with the vanilla sauce and some fresh (extravagant!) blackberries from our local market.
Those little birdies would love it out here in Oklahoma! They would go nicely with some other little birdies perched on a shelf. ~~ I just made the hot milk cake and it soooo good! (and very easy) Thanks for the recipe and lovely pictures of how easy it is to make. ♥
Will difinitely make the cake. Sounds yum yum. Can see the birds in my house.
Ok, so you so cheered me up today…I am in the beautiful, but gloomy, cold and wet Santa Cruz Mountains in the little town of Boulder Creek, trying to not feel so lonely as my husband of 38 years whisked off to the big island of Hawaii with his best friend of almost 45 years for a guys get away! (12 days) I am so much a good wife!
Maybe not lonely but bored, all girlfriends are busy and I am blue! So I am so gonna make this cake and bribe them over! Thank you so much it looks and sounds delightful I just hope someone will come and help me eat it! And the little birds are so cute…I would love to have them! Thanks again…..
I made the cake it…it was so yummy and my girlfriend came over to eat it with me..Thanks so much now I will have to make it for my husbands homecoming,,,,see if he goes to Hawaii again without me!! hehehe
Hey,Susan! Love the little birds. Hope I win!
The cake looks so yummy! I would love the sweet-tweet birds too! A bit of snow in this part of NE, but not too bad. Winter has finally arrived I guess. LOL
I will make the cake tomorrow’s Sunday dinner dessert; and the sauce to go with it. My yen for cake shall be satisfied! (I better watch what I eat the rest of the day; something tells me I will have more than one serving, it looks so tasty.)
Jean G
I’ve been waiting for this recipe since you first taunted us with it the other day. 🙂
I even tried to cheat and google “milk cake” recipes, but the only results I kept getting were for tres leches cakes. I’ve had those, and they are too soupy for my taste. So I can’t wait to make this one. We socked in with a blanket of light snow and a coating of ice here in Virginia, so if that doesn’t call for a milk cake, I don’t know what does! Thanks for the recipe!
Oh, I love the sweet little birds! Your blog is a bright spot in my day. Thanks.
snowy here and you are right … it’s the perfect weather for cake baking! I’m trying your grandmother’s orange cake recipe today (thanks!) and might just be ambitious enough to go for milk cake next!
would love to win those sweet little tweeters but am happy to check in with you just for the fun of it!
enjoy your weekend Susan!
What a sweet giveaway. Love those little birds… I can’t imagine anyone who wouldn’t want to have them in their kitchen! Thank you!
The little birdies are adorable and would look so sweet in my new kitchen!
The pair of green birds are adorable! They remind me of the two pair of Mourning Doves who live in my backyard. Love to hear them call to each other. Thank you for the Hot Milk Cake recipe. As always sounds divine! The cupcake was darling as well. You can lead me astray any day…will have to visit Ikea. Susan, you take the cake!
We are staying for the winter in our trailer in an RV park in Florida, but have just purchased a home here into which we will move in about 3 weeks. I think the first thing I will make in our new oven will be that yummy looking milk cake. Thank you so much for the recipe. Wouldn’t the darling little green birds look perfect in my kitchen window!! I never win anything, but who knows? If I do win them perhaps I’ll paint my kitchen to match. 🙂 Have a wonderful week everyone, wherever you may be. <3