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Time for another list of excuses for shamefully neglecting this blog:
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Time for another list of excuses for shamefully neglecting this blog:
It turns out the soil in our back yard is fairly toxic. My housemate Molly, rather than give up gardening, decided to invite a bunch of people over to help make raised beds in which to grow edible plants. I helped in the best way I knew how: by making a themed cake.
I made five kinds of truffles last Saturday.
Made some cakes. The first was for my friend Lisa's birthday, and was conceived on this very blog!
When searching for recipes for our passover seder - an extra challenge with vegetarians and people with nut and gluten allergies sharing the table - we stumbled across this abomination:
I love making cakes, especially for friends' birthdays. Yesterday was my housemate Mitchell's birthday, and he requested a carrot cake but did not specify a shape. Given his ardent love for sea slugs, I decided to make him a sea slug cake:
There's a conversation going on over at metafilter about how people cook and eat in this country.
The last couple of days have been FULL of cake. My friends' theater company turned five this summer, and they requested a cake from me to have at their celebration. They're called Flat Earth Theater, so the design for the cake was obvious:
I've been doing a lot of baking lately. Last weekend I made banana bread, mango bread, and a vegan gluten-free chocolate raspberry torte all within a 24-hour period. This weekend, I devoted myself exclusively to a very important task: the making of my littlest friend's first birthday cake.
Occasionally I come up with puns that are, shall we say, executable? And although it may take me years to follow through on them, eventually I do. I'm not sure how many pesaschs have passed over without these, but finally! Here they are:
My birthday was a couple of days ago. I got obsessed with making the electrically conductive cake described in The Hungry Scientist, only I didn't get a chance to re-read the recipe until the morning of, so when I discovered that I needed the rare (and expensive!) cake decoration silver leaf, I thought for sure that crushing disappointment awaited me.