PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE CAKE

i've been rage baking

Nov 10, 2024

∙ Paid

I’ve spent much of the post-election week sitting in my rage, keeping my head down and channeling my fury into making food for the people I love.

I don’t have anything particularly unique or insightful to say. Simply put, I am angry. I am angry with the people who are going to run the country. I am angry with the people who voted for them. But I am also angry with the people who currently run the country. I am angry with myself.

I feel it necessary to turn this anger into some form of action, so 100% of the proceeds from paid subscriptions over the next six months will go straight to relief funds/mutual aids/organizations that are doing the work that is important to me, as it seems American political systems won’t be for the foreseeable future.

For November, I’ve chosen the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, a non-profit that provides medical care to the children of Gaza. Currently, they are providing urgent relief to Gazans by supplying medical equipment and treatment, food, and water to families that have been displaced and injured by ongoing attacks. They also use the fund to provide long-term support such as rebuilding healthcare facilities, and mental health/trauma care for children.

This feels like a necessary first choice as I’ve been quite rattled by the rhetoric I’ve seen, in the past week, from many self-identifying liberal people on the subject of Palestine and protest voters. Yes, we can be upset, even grieve, over the implications of the election results, but freeing Palestine can not be the scapegoat.

To be completely candid, I voted for Kamala, but I struggled greatly with the decision to vote at all because many of my values are not showing up in the Democratic Party at present. Innocent people are being slaughtered in their homes by a military machine that her administration would have continued a relationship with. I’m not quite sure how we can expect or even ask people to vote for a leader who has had an active hand in this violence. My vote weighs heavy on me.

I hope you join me in supporting this fund and the others I choose over the next few months.

It feels remarkably silly that this precedes the recipe for a Pumpkin Spice Latte Cake, but here it is for the paid subscribers. Next week, I’ll have a bit more to say about this cake and a recipe that incorporates it.

THE RECIPE