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Ingredients for Creamy Apple Cake 2 eggs A pinch of salt 100g sugar 1 tsp vanilla sugar 100ml milk 20g melted butter Zest of 1 lemon 80g wheat flour 4-5 apples, peeled, cored, and thinly sliced Juice of 1/2 lemon 1 tsp baking powder Optional: pinch of ginger, citron zest, brewed tea or berries for…

Then came the call I had dreaded. A doctor’s voice, gentle but firm, telling me she was gone. I had baked her a chocolate cake for her birthday just weeks before. I had assumed I still had time. Noah held me while I cried. Friends and distant relatives came to the funeral, offered condolences, then…