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One thing leads to another

Lemon drum beats its presence. One jar of pickles that I ignored was the one with cut lemons in it. It took a friend to acknowledge its taste. She is a lemon cake fan. Lemon Honey cupcakes sounded right. When you are working with a bottle of honey or caramel, you know what ayou are getting into, but when you buy 2 cups of sourcream, theres a theater going in the cosmos, the pre making of another thing.
Such was the situation where I had lots of sourcream left and a remnant of a mix of sugar and butter mix for frosting. Had I got the confectioners sugar, this wouldnt follow.
With so much already at hand I dived into my first 'sans mix' cake- a Sour cream banana coffee cake. I have had this one before at havasupai. A hike buddy made it. It took a while to cook but it did a good job.
Lemon Snaps.

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