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Dear Reader,
Years ago, after running a business magazine for 11 years, I sold it and decided to stay home for a while and dabble in different kinds of challenges. One of the adventures I tried was a recipe for a Candy Cane Coffee Cake. The fancy photo in the cookbook, I stared at it for weeks. It looked impressive and I figured that probably only a professional baker could make it look like the picture, not an every day baker like me.
It was made from a yeast dough and the finished coffee cake was in the shape of a candy cane--the sliced dough strips delicately weaved over top of each other--topped off with a glaze and fruit accents. But then again, someone followed the recipe and made it look like the photo in the book, so why couldn't I do the same thing? And so I began, simply reading one line in the recipe at a time, not jumping to the end--where the hard part was--but keeping my eye on the instructions adding one ingredient at a time.
My Candy Cane Coffee Cake did indeed turn out, and it was amazing! Who would've imagined, certainly not me, but there it was--a finished fancy coffee cake--just like the picture in the cookbook and I did it line-by-line.
Line-by-line, it's a good thing for me to remember this time of year. My grandchildren are coming to visit us this holiday season and I've been making a mental list of all the things I should be doing so the holidays are picture-perfect, too. But I think I'll take it easy, slow down and just take the holidays line-by-line.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
http://www.DearReader.com
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