{"id":11627,"date":"2013-12-09T20:48:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T04:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywaffle.com\/stage1\/?p=11627"},"modified":"2016-10-13T11:06:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T18:06:03","slug":"keanu-birthday-cake-simple-apple-galette-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywaffle.com\/stage1\/keanu-birthday-cake-simple-apple-galette-pie\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Cakes & Simple Apple Galettes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sometimes you just have to do a little something for yourself. My birthday was on a Monday this year, so I didn’t take it as a day off. Instead, I thought about getting myself cupcakes or a dozen donuts, but then decided to make myself an apple galette with the Arkansas Black apples I had rolling around the produce drawer. Is that the practical side of adulthood?<\/p>\n

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The galette is a weird choice for me I’ll admit, since I’m much more of a chocolate cake birthday girl, but I just didn’t feel like making and frosting a layer cake…and I’d done that a couple of months ago for Wolf’s birthday. \u00a0I have had many most excellent birthday cakes<\/em> over the years, so you can see why it would be hard to measure up. \u00a0Keanu was chocolate with rum filling, I think.<\/p>\n

The beauty of this simple little galette is that it was dessert on my birthday night and breakfast the next morning.<\/p>\n

I’ll just be blunt. \u00a0This galette is Pie for Dummies, of which, I count myself one. Despite the fact that I was the only one in my 7th grade home-ec group who’d ever made<\/em> a pie crust before facing that challenge in class, I did not turn into a pie baker.<\/p>\n

Even still, I had one of those “Yeah, no, I made this!” moments with this galette. \u00a0But it had nothing to do with me (or the crust). It was all about the apples. \u00a0Thick skinned, tart-sweet Arkansas Black apples. I couldn’t even bear to peel those red-black beauties. Ice cream, whipped cream and cheddar cheese have no place here. Just apples with a dusting of cinnamon and sugar.<\/p>\n

On a blazing bright winter morning, with a hot cup of coffee, it was delicious. I ate two slices. That’s adulthood. Practical? Yeah, well.<\/p>\n

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