Using the round handle of a wooden spoon, poke holes about 1/2
inch apart
over entire surface of warm cake, making sure not to poke all the way to the bottom of the cake.
The drought that is devastating California and much of the West has dried the region so much that 240 gigatons worth of
surface and groundwater have been lost, roughly the equivalent to a 3.9 -
inch layer of water
over the
entire West, or the annual loss of mass from the Greenland Ice Sheet, according to the study.