Rose Water Cakes with Roasted Strawberry Buttercream (w/th Café, Cacau e Canela)

Hello, friend.

Note: I’m feeling incredibly lazy (and I have two exams to study for), so I’m going to make this blog post short and sweet (much like these cakes!) These mini rose water cakes are wonderfully aromatic with subtle floral notes. The slowly roasted strawberries are perfectly folded into the cloud-like buttercream making for the ideal (end of) summer dessert. A few months backs Laura from Café, Cacau e Canela and I were messaging back and forth about how we have never collaborated before and how we NEEDED TO. We started brainstorming ideas for how we were going to go about this. We decided to use the same core ingredients and see where our creativity took us. Once you’re done checking out my recipe, click on over to Laura’s site for her recipe (spoiler alert: it’s going to be a delicious one. Just sayin’)

mini chocolate chip & chamomile tea cookie sandwiches + a new camera

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So I haven’t posted for almost a month….yeahhh. Let me try and explain.

This post is roughly two (going on three) weeks in the making. I had an entire post written and queued up, but something about it felt unauthentic and I deleted it. So here I am, writing this post for the second time. Though why the almost month hiatus? School has been kind of a lot to handle and all of my efforts are being spent working on homework and papers (and concerns about the state’s lack of funding the university, but that's another story). Then to top it all off, I’ve been in a writer’s block state for the last few weeks. Just the perfect combo!

In other exciting news, I got a new camera! What?! I know right? Long time coming, but I finally had enough money saved to upgrade. Over seven months of late night shifts at the hotel plus doing client work for Clabber Girl and Aunt Millie’s allowed me to buy my camera. I couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a Canon EOS Rebel T5i (her name is Stella, and yes I named my camera) and I love her.