Everyday Canvas

About Six- Layer Cakes and Such

Prompt: Someone is baking a cake for you in the shape of six books. Name the books you would choose for the cake.

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Who says I want one cake. To feed my greed, I am going to ask for two cakes. Although I can easily think of a dozen, but I don't want my nice baker to go bankrupt.

First a She cake, all chocolate of course.

1. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
2. A Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
4. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
5. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
6. The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

And for the icing on this cake, a mixture of Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri and Rococo by Adriana Trigiani


Now the He cake. Coconut crunch and other things nutty.
I'll just walk around my bookshelves and pick the thickest volumes I can find for the bottom layers, at least. Ahha! Here they are:

1. Complete Works of William Shakespeare
2. Complete Works of Jelaluddin Rumi
3. Complete Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
5. Farewell to Arms by Hemingway
6. Beach Music or Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

And for the starry icing on the cake, The Little Prince by Saint Exupery


Then for the foodies, a true six layer cake: this comes out really delicious. I tried it once, but I won't do it again, because first it was a job finding passion fruit, (I substituted cherries) but most importantly, I made a mess in the kitchen. Unless I can hire three helpers to clean after me, I am not doing layered cakes ever again.
Here is where you can find this great recipe:
http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/six-layer-coconut-cake-with-passion-fruit-fil...