Apple Cake Tatin, Part Deux

Check out the caramelization on that baby!

I made apple cake tatin again earlier this week on Tuesday. It's the same recipe I made this past weekend for Jennie and Julie's dinner. I planned to make it to celebrate Josh's first day as a teacher, but then decided to double the recipe and bring one to work. I think I need to turn the cake out sooner than after 15 minutes of cooling because the second cake had more stickage than the first.

I picked the prettier cake (the first one out of the pan) to go to the office. The cake disappeared very quickly. You can see the cake to the right, packed up in its foil lined box. I skipped the powdered sugar this time around. Anyways, hours after the cake was gone, one of the crazy people I work with came up to my desk and said, "I understand that I missed some of your baked goods this morning." I gave her this blank look because I didn't see the point in her telling me this. I don't bring in several cakes to feed the entire company. It's first come, first serve. You snooze, you lose. You get the point. I told her I'd brought in an apple cake and she kept making sad faces at me, like maybe I'd hidden a slice in my desk drawer. I didn't offer anything else for conversation, so she went away eventually.

Seriously, if you want my cake that badly, pay me to bake you one, and I'll do it. Maybe I sound mean, but this woman comes back for multiple servings, like handfuls of cookies, and giggles while pretending to sneak off. And then she goes on about how she's very careful about what she eats. The cake and cookies are for everyone, and I don't bake in such huge quantities that everyone can double-fist cookies. Other people miss out on the cookies completely because of this hogging. Equal cookies for all! Oh look. Now I'm a cookie communist.