Candy Corn, Apple Cake & Spicy Cinnamon

What is it about candy corn that makes my daughter ga-ga? Perhaps it is the ten million grams of sugar that each kernal possesses. Nonetheless, I must live up to my alterego - fun mommy - at least some of the time and so I break down and buy it the first chance I get every fall. Luckily for me and the husband it is not one of the things that appeal to either of us so we are not tempted by it. I have, however, been tempted by an apple cake that I read about on another blog, The Entertaining House. I would link you to her site but first of all I know no one actually reads my blog and secondly, I don't know how to link you to her blog. The cake looks delish. It is totally NOT on our diet and I can not stop thinking about it!! So I am going to have to bake it and I am thinking that I may do it this week. I have secured a friend to take the remains of the cake off of my hands so I am not tempted to overindulge and eat the entire thing. See the problem with the cake is that I want to try a tiny piece just to satisfy my curiosity and my craving for it and the husband and daughter may also have a tiny piece but then we will be left with the rest of the cake. Being the good girl that I am and having been raised with my depression era Nana I am physically unable to let the rest of the cake go to waste and will subsequently eat the rest of the cake over the course of a few days. So I need to get rid of the remains of the cake but you can't just take a half eaten cake to your neighbors house or your daughter's school - that is just tacky. So, instead I have secured my husband's single friend who works in an office and he is going to take the rest of the cake and bring it to work. He will set it in the conference room and all who enter will think that someone else has already been to the conference room and tried a piece. I do not know why I didn't come up with this idea a long time ago and many extra pounds ago but I think it is brilliant. Truth be told it was not even my idea. It was our friend's idea. I told him about my cake dilemma and asked if he would like the remainder of our cake for himself but then I remembered that he is also trying to eat a healthy diet so I didn't want him to be in the same boat and lo and behold he came up with this brilliant plan. So the cake will be baked this week. It will be a good opportunity to use up some of our apples before we leave for our trip to NYC on Friday and I will know if it is as delish as it sounds. If so, I will put in a bid to my mother so that I can add it to the list of things I will make for our Thanksgiving trip. So, that's settled. I do not think I have time to make it today and one of things I am looking forward to when I make it is the smell that will fill my house with the promise of yummy goodness. Today I already have that smell because I cleaned out a drawer this morning and stumbled across a spicy cinnamon candle (how it ended up in a drawer is anyone's guess. So now my house is filling as I type with the scent of a cool fall day and at least in my mind I can pretend that it is cool and crisp with a bright sunny sky outside but in reality it is probably going to get up near 90 here today.