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(Adapted from The Home Cook Book and Food52′s Prune Coffee Cake)

3/4 cup dried cranberries

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

1/2 teaspoon ground cloves

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

1/2 teaspoon salt

4 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature

1 cup sugar

1 egg

1/2 cup cold coffee

1/4 cup molasses

1/2 cup milk

Powdered sugar for dusting (optional)

1. Soak dried cranberries in hot water 20 minutes. Meanwhile, butter and flour a 10-inch circular cake or springform pan. Preheat oven to 350°F.

2. In a medium bowl, sift together flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, baking soda, cream of tartar, and salt.

3. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Add egg, coffee, and molasses. Stir until mixture is smooth with no lumps (it will be very wet).

4. Add dry ingredients and milk alternatingly to butter mixture, stirring until combined. Drain cranberries and fold into batter.

5. Pour batter into prepared pan and bake 30 to 35 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes, sprinkle with powdered sugar, and serve warm.

via Nicole Villeneuve: Literary Recipes: Walt Whitman’s Cranberry Coffee Cake.

More Pilates. This time, self-induced — self-instructed? At any rate, here. I stick with instructors in the lineage (I hate that word) of Romana Krysanowska.

I even had a smoothie for breakfast without hardly any crap in it. It involved a handful of fresh spinach and some whey protein powder. No chocolate. No flax seed oil, which I forgot to get. Same for half an avocado (though they do tend to make you buy the whole avocado at the store).

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I am off to Pilates with Julie on a Monday morning — this system of exercise I do freakishly well at. I am toned and fit and my body has changed so much that I can’t wear a lot of my old clothes. They don’t fit — but not in the sense of they’re a little loose but more in the sense of they slide right off of me.

Then, meet with my friend the chef who will help me figure how to scarf down a day’s worth of calories on half a stomach that doesn’t involve sitting in Starbuck’s drinking mocha frappucinos all afternoon. I hope I don’t have to give them up entirely.