Cookie Thursday is a Thing is taking the day off from delivery to the department. Because Christmas was yesterday and CTIAT is tired. Not to mention I am sure that the entire department overindulged and there will be leftover treats available on the lounge tables.
But I am not idle.
Today is my sister’s birthday and I have been making her birthday cake for YEARS.
She always asks for the same thing- a Tres Leches cake. The cake is more of a sponge that three milks are poured over and smothered with whipped cream. That is already chilling in the fridge.
However, what I wanted to write about and experiment with is the viral candied cranberries that are everywhere! A bag of cranberries is soaked in a liquid for 2-24 hours (or more if you just didn’t have the bandwidth to deal with it yesterday), dried, coated in powdered sugar, and baked at 250 degrees Fahrenheit. I thought ooh, an experiment.
I used Prosecco because that was the first recipe I saw but you can also soak the cranberries in Sprite or orange juice. Or you can go the Inception route and use cranberry juice like I just now thought of as I was typing. That would be funny.
I used Prosecco, which is another reason not to bring these to the hospital, because let me tell you, the resulting powdered sugar-coated cranberries pack a wallop. I can definitely taste the alcohol and I don’t think this would go over well at work. Would they be popular? Yes. Would people have to go back to work BuZzEd? Also yes. And I don’t want to contribute to that.
The department is just going to have to be satisfied with their own leftovers.
Next Thursday is a new month!
Cookie Thursday is a Thing turns TEN and I have exciting plans to celebrate.
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 