One of the best things about being forced to stay at home the past two months has been the opportunity to slow down and live life at a less American pace.

Baking with my children has been a great experience. For all the funny jokes parents are making about being driven a little nutty by their kids (the struggle is real), there is no substitute for these memories we're making right now.

Last night, we put together a Genoise sponge cake. We're big fans of the British Baking Show, so making one of these and topping it with chocolate ganache was a lot of fun. Here are the pictures!

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Here's the cake, after being cooked in a cake pan.

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Flipped out onto a cooling rack.

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The ganache was 50% heavy whipping cream, 50% semi-sweet chocolate (56% sweet).

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Here is all that is left this morning...we did indeed have some cake for breakfast. 🙄

Not bad for a first attempt! Duck Duck Go is a pretty good recipe finder.

What sort of sweets have you learned to make lately?

-Jeff