Author: Jackie Pick

Jackie Pick is a former teacher and current writer living in the Chicago area. She is a contributing author to multiple anthologies, including Multiples Illuminated, So Glad They Told Me: Women Get Real about Motherhood, Here in the Middle, as well as the and the literary magazines The Sun and Selfish. She received Honorable Mention from the Mark Twain House and Museum for her entry in the Royal Nonesuch Humor Writing Competition. Jackie is a contributing writer at Humor Outcasts, and her essays have been featured on various online sites including McSweeney's, Belladonna Comedy, Mamalode, The HerStories Project, and Scary Mommy. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, Jackie is co-creator and co-writer of the award-winning short film Fixed Up, and a proud member of the 2017 Chicago cast of Listen To Your Mother.

Baking and Burning — It Never Fails

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I have two desserts that I know are sure-fire crowd-pleasers.  One is made-from-scratch chocolate cream pie. Labor intensive, rich, dreamy.  The other is carrot cake.  Spicy, carroty, homey, and topped with not-too-sweet cream cheese frosting.

Huzzy’s clients (and family) were here for lunch the other day. Carrot cake seemed a good match to the soup/salad/sandwich fest.

There was one slice left over after lunch because everyone requested to take some home.

Here is the recipe. David Lebowitz is a genius.

I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves.

To. Die. For. (This is before giving two last take-home slices.)