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Sorry it has been a little while since I updated. I’ve been busy moving & packing — I actually leave for the farm on Sunday!! Today I had a chance to bake and experiment a little. I did a test on the snickerdoodles to test different butter brands. I used Land-O-Lakes, Plugra & Breakstone’s since they are available at all grocery stores in PA & NYC. So far I like Plugra best, but not by much. My step mom is taking some into work to ask her friends which they prefer.

I also tested AP vs. Cake Flour in a cake recipe that calls for AP flour. I used King Arthur’s AP & Pillsbury’s Softasilk (cake), since both are widely available and the King is my favorite AP Flour. I tested using my favorite vanilla cake recipe. Without question the cake flour cupcake tasted much better, had a softer texture and a whiter crumb. I’d like to try again with a different cake recipe to see if the results are the same — next time with chocolate cake.