cooking: coffee coffee cake by claire saffitz

yesterday was um.... an eventful day? i made claire saffitz's coffee coffee cake with some success...... entirely by hand. my (40 year old, passed down from grandmother) stand mixer said goodbye and i apparently have strong enough arms now that i whisked the entire cake by hand and it was delicious. i'm extremely shocked, truth be told! anyway, notes & reflections below! 

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