bundt cake! no sticking!

i have been having the itch to do some baking. i have also been trying to lose weight and the two do not go well together. nevertheless, today i gave in and bee and i made a sweet little bundt cake. it was most exciting because i don't think i have ever had a bundt cake come out without sticking. this time i was all set with some cool tricks that i found online (like placing the cake-in pan- on a steaming hot towel to give it a little spa treatment to loosen it up). but then when i flipped it over.... bam! it just popped out, like magic. success! 

i used this recipe from epicurious. but i added raspberries because we didn't have enough blueberries. and i also used lemon instead of orange and vegan shortening instead of butter. oh, and we put a sweet little brown sugar glaze on top, literally the icing on the cake!

and now i'm about to dig into it as soon as i hit publish!

(and that tablecloth you see there... i found it here. nobody wanted it and it is handmade for our table, probably a million years ago. it was all stained from the cedar chest but i did some work with a sink full of vinegar and now you can hardly see the stains. unless you know about them, which i do, so i see them lit up like times square. but beautiful and exciting anyway! i love it!)