When Life Gives You (too much) Pineapple Make Cake

What do you do when . . .

you’ve added three eggs yolks and ½ cup sugar to a can (16 ounces) of crushed pineapple with juice, when it should have been added to an 8 ounce, drained, can of crushed pineapple?

• I thought of taking half the mixture out, but what do you do with the other half?
• I thought about forgetting it altogether, but that would be wasteful and I still needed to bring something.
• Double it? Didn’t have the necessary pan or extra ingredients.
• Then I remembered what Marie Antoinette once said when she was in a pickle, “Let them eat cake.”
• An hour later I had one fragrant 13×9 and four 6×4 pineapple cakes with cream cheese frosting. And a hotter kitchen!!! (It is in the triple digits today and the ac was struggling, even before I decided to bake.)

I learned some things today . . .

• Carefully read and check the label of all ingredients. Don’t assume anything.
• 8 ounce cans of crushed pineapple exist. Despite what I used to believe.
• You cannot substitute a 10 ounce can of crushed pineapple with juice for an 8 ounce drained can.
• You can make the best of any situation – it’s a choice.
  

Oh, I also learned that Marie Antoinette never uttered those thoughtless words, on the eve of the French Revolution, “Let them eat cake.” See Urban Legends and Wikipedia for (some of) the true story.

Finally, here’s something, she really did say to the priest on her way up to the guillotine,

“The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.”

This is a good note to end on while I go eat cake.