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Fab night & morning spent with a favorite friend. She brought me an epic bouquet, and I baked her a cake.

I made Yossy Arefi’s Simple Sesame Cake (which is a standard for me at this point) and I was going to top it with her freeze-dried strawberry icing —  but I learned, unfortunately, that freeze-dried fruit goes bad! I had an old bag in my pantry that I hadn’t touched since early 2022. Wow.

So I riffed up a different icing: 95g confectioner’s sugar, 1 tbsp whole milk, ¼ tsp pumpkin pie spice, 1 tbsp Skrewball peanut-butter whiskey (yes really).

Reader, it was a triumph. This cake may not last another 48 hours because of it, I am DEAD serious.