You can always count on cake

Happy book birthday to 'Anytime Cakes'!

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I woke up this morning in San Francisco and sang Happy (Book) Birthday to Dorie’s Anytime Cakes. I’ve had a copy for a little while (long enough for me to have spattered it) and a few dozen bookish people have been sent copies, but today is the first day my newest baby is out in the world for real, on her own to find her place among all the fabulous cookbooks that are making this fall so delicious. Today will be the first day that I’ll see Anytime Cakes on shelves — I’ll be stopping by Omnivore Books — and the first day that I’ll be talking to bakers, cooks and readers about the power and charm of cakes, simple, anytime cakes. As always, I’m wildly excited and more than a little anxious. Part of the anxiety is opening-night jitters; part is my own personality — I’m not the calmest human; and part of it is the nervousness that I think comes with launching any creative project: You (that would be me) have worked on something (this book) for years, you’ve drawn so many other…