Sundays are still difficult for me in France.
I want to cook, bake, meet up with friends, go to a movie, have a drink together. No schedule, just go with the flow of the day. Holiday time is even more difficult. Going out always meant bumping into a friend, which led to a drink, a trip to see Christmas lights, just hanging out.
I'm not being whiny; it is what it is. My friends are not here or not close enough to show up at the door unannounced and welcomed. I'm not sure if that will ever exist for me here; I really don't think it exists even for French people. A day filled with happenstance and no rdv? Doubtful.
Maybe I'll make a coffee cake.
Cake:
57g butter melted
1 egg
1/8 tsp salt
1 cup buttermilk
Zest from one clementine (don't zest it yet)
250g flour 65T
60g sugar, which includes a packet of vanilla sugar (@ 11g)
1.5 tsp baking powder
½ tsp cinnamon
½ tsp powdered coriander
Topping:
115g butter
100-105g muscovado sugar
1T flour
3/4 tsp cinnamon
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Cake:
Cake:
In a large bowl fork mix all dry ingredients except the salt.
In a medium bowl melt butter in oven, leave out to cool. Zest the clementine into the melted butter.
In medium bowl whisk salt, buttermilk and egg into cooled butter. Add this liquid mixture to the dry mixture. Mix well; it’s a dense dough. Spread into an 8” cake greased pan.
Take about a 1/3 of the butter and with your fingers shred it into the topping mixture till crumbly. Spread this mixture on top of the cake. Slightly swirl it around the cake. You can't really 'swirl' but sorta try; it will make dents and pocket, don’t worry. Cut the rest of the butter into small pieces and sprinkle it on the top of the cake. Bake in oven for 30-35 minutes. Let cool in pan till butter is absorbed into the cake.
Eat the clementine, have a piece of cake with hot coffee.
