• Summery Layered Lemon Poppy Seed Cake with Blueberry and Black Currant Jam

    This massive cake was gone in two days. It was that good. I am normally the baker, not so much the eater. But after having tried one slice of this wonderfully summery cake, I immediately went back for seconds – and thirds… This cake was borne, more than anything else, out of the “need” to procrastinate. Currently I am finishing a term paper and am struggling most days to find motivation to sit down and wrap my head around the issue (“US hegemony on the decline and China on the rise”). And even if I manage to sit down and write for a few hours, I definitely need some diversion…