It's Christmas eve. All is pretty quiet. Our kitchen remodel is 99.99% complete with only a few things left on the punch list. We started the tear down the day after Thanksgiving weekend. They tore it down in a day, electric the second day, installed cabinets in the 3rd and 4th day. Counter tops measured on the 5th day. On the 6th day we learned that the counter top we had selected was out of stock. So we went to select a new one. We like it even better than the first one we picked but it's hard to know not having seen the first one laid out! 10th day they came to do cabinet fine tuning and other miscellaneous jobs. 11th day they installed all the appliances but we elected not to install the faucet as it would have meant drilling holes in the sub counter and not being sure of the exact locations. Then we waited until day 23 for the counter tops to be installed. That took almost all day! They tore out wall board for the back splash because it was measured without wall board. The day 24 the crew came back to finish things or try to finish everything. The crew worked steady and long trying to get everything finished - reinstalled wall board for back splash, cut and installed backsplash, put in over and under cabinet lighting, painted, patched grout, installed all the handles, installed faucet and fully connected dishwasher and cleaned, cleaned cleaned. Just a few things to finish but we are loving the new kitchen!
I wasted no time in putting the new kitchen to work. I still have most of the kitchen packed up so baking this cake was a bit of an adventure. I was on to make a cake for Christmas eve dinner with the cousins so I did the best I could.
I was also on to bring treats for the Christmas eve service at church so I made a couple of Chocolate crispy cakes (makes 24 slices each) and no baking involved. Good thing I could find my 45 year old bundt pan! All's good!
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