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Oct 27, 2012 11:18AM
I've never done it before, in any shape or form, but it always fascinated me.
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@ Claire - LOL, So true!!And considering how hard your feet get dancing for hours each night...
For me though the 3 inch heel feels like a flat!
Hadn't danced in a while, and when re-starting and putting the dance shoes on, I felt like they should have been higher! :D
Arushi wrote: "I have the recipe of a vanilla cream cake with lemon buttercream topped with a raspberry sauce and chocolate shavings. Is anyone interested in it? "OMG I do!! I'm not sure if it'll be any good with my cooking/baking, but it would be fun to try!
Damn, I really need to stop working weekends! Did you guys at least save me some chocolate?!
Don't worry Gin, I hid some chocolate :) We'll share. I am also working a little on Sunday. @Lannister - Cool! Here you go. Will you share a picture if you make it?
Cake
2 ½ cups cake flour
2 cups sugar
¾ cup vegetable oil
2 ¼ teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
½ teaspoon salt
4 eggs
1 cup whole milk
Preheat the oven to 350°F.
Put the flour, sugar, vegetable oil, baking powder, vanilla, and salt in the bowl and mix until the ingredients are blended together.
Then mix on high for a minute.
Add 1 egg at a time and scrape down the bowl after complete.
Next add milk and scrape down the bowl again.
Grease pans, bake for 25min roughly and cool completely.
Icing
3 ½ cups icing sugar
½ cup of butter softened
¼ cup of milk, I prefer half and half
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon lemon zest
2 tablespoon lemon juice
Mix the butter, lemon zest and vanilla together, making sure all the lumps are gone.
Add sugar ½ cup at a time. And when mixture is drying out add a bit of milk, make sure to start and end with the sugar.
Mix for about 2 minutes.
Add in lemon juice.
Sauce
½ cup water
¾ cup sugar
12-18 ounces of fresh or frozen raspberries
And preferred thickener. I have used cornstarch in a slurry or gelatin.
Combine sugar, berries, and 1/2 cup water in a pot and bring to a boil.
Reduce heat and cook till sugar is gone. (10 min about)
Take and cool, once done place in a blender or magic bullet and mix until smooth.
Pass through a strainer to get rid of seeds.
If too runny reheat and add thickener.
After you make the cake you can shave some milk chocolate over the top.
Oh thanks Arushi! This looks amazing! I can feel my arteries clogging as I read. :) I've added it to the recipe blog thing that I use.It'll be a few weeks before I'm likely to make it, but if it doesn't look awful, I'll take a pic (I'm NOT good with spreading icing. My efforts are on a par with a five year old's. And sometimes there's more on the worktop than on the damn cake!)
Arshi, that looks good! I wish I was a better baker . . . but I always burn baking lol
Don't worry Zeenat - You and me both!(that or it religiously sinks in the damn middle!) LOL
We can sit and watch in amazement while the rest of ladies bake delicious looking treats! :D
@Jax It always takes me some time to re-adjust after the summer break. My feet have to get used to the abuse all over again! Though I have to admit, it's not so bad the second time around. Jive practice will always be rough!I think the most creative thing I ever baked was a Slytherin cake for a friend's going away party a few years ago. I made one in the shape of a snake and used fondant to make the "skin" and face. Glittery icing helped with scales.
Jax, I would be sitting in amazement too if I actually did manage to bake a delicious treat. Then I'd eat it all!! :D
LMAO! Enjoy it! I seem to have gone off sweet yummies...
but you pop down a platter of savories, and I guarantee it will disappear within minutes! ;D
I feel the world (and my appetite) is big enough for both!! :)
I had my grandson over this afternoon - he and I made Halloween cookies just so he would have something special to do. And no, I didn't have any of them - I sent them all home with him. I'm doing WeightWatchers with the daughter and there were a few too many points in those things; plus I snuck a piece of Pumpkin pie and THAT really blew my points for the day!
Claire wrote: "@Jax It always takes me some time to re-adjust after the summer break. My feet have to get used to the abuse all over again! Though I have to admit, it's not so bad the second time around. Jive pra..."That is too cool Claire! A slytherin Cake!
Duane, I just restarted weight watchers this week . . . I either eat too many points, or not enough points. lol
@Zeenat - I started around the 30th of September - I TRY to monitor the points closely, but...I've gone from 192 lbs (an all time high weight for me) down to 170 lbs in that time. I want to get down to 160 which should be a good weight for someone 5'9", but the weight is not coming off as quick as it was! I wonder if it's that pizza and ice cream? LOL! Exercise would probably help - I have a roomful of exercise equipment that doesn't even know what I look like.
@Jax - That's not quite enough chocolate! ;-)
I have only ever baked twice in my life. The first cake actually turned out really really good and I was glad coz it was birthday present. It wasn't anything cool, just a chocolate cake with french vanilla icing and chocolate chips on top, but since it was the first time I had baked something, he was happy :) (Plus we decorated his house like we would a kid's. It was cool!) Over all, I can't bake coz I don't have an oven atm. So unless it can be baked in a microwave, I can't do it :( So I collect recipes of everything that attracts me, and share them with you guys, and bug my boss to bake. She, thankfully is good at it :)
@Jax - I love the image!!!
I love this random thread. Is anyone participating in NaNoWriMo this year? If so, drop by to say hello! My username id Kurosymph :)
No, I'm not, but I greatly admire people who do. Good luck Sophie!
Duane wrote: "@Zeenat - I started around the 30th of September - I TRY to monitor the points closely, but...I've gone from 192 lbs (an all time high weight for me) down to 170 lbs in that time. I want to get dow..."I've done weight watchers on and off for a couple years. It helps me keep track more of what I eat than anything else. I lose weight at the beginning and then stall out. Then quit. Thankfully I don't gain weight again. I started off at 257 and am at 228 so . . . hopefully i'll get below 200 this time around. lol
I may participate in nanowrimo unofficially. Between my thesis and my side writing, I got very many words to get through lol.
Hummm okay.. so Random House and Penguin Books have officially merged because Random House bought Penguin. Now, before the official name was announced, the guesses were: Penguin House, Random Penguin and my personal favorite Randy Penguin.
Unfortunately, they decided to be boring, and went with Penguin Random House. PR House :P Lets see how that works out.
"Randy Penguin" <-- Now THAT is a missed opportunity!! :D
#/D€*!!I can't make the picture bigger! But basically that's Jeremy Zerfoss' take on Penguin's publishing cycle :p. Notice that there ARE randy penguins above the "important meeting with the author caption"
@Sophie - LOL!!! Its great :) @Lannister - I know!!! They so should have gone with it.. *shakes head* what an opportunity to miss!!!
Btw, before I forget.. Neil Gaiman has posted a free story at Audible.com and Audible.co.uk for Halloween. I think I got the link from here (Duane maybe?), still I heard that its a really good story, though not that scary.
Duane posted about it? Well, sorry about the repeat. I listened to it yesterday...it's only like 12 minutes. It's not really scary but the ending made me uneasy. :)
Maybe he was only talking about it, and you posted it? I dunno. I just know someone on GR posted it :) (which is why I did not post the link again) so I had to say that I've heard its good. I should be able to listen to it tomorrow.
I read it from another group. I made a link in the bargain section if any want to listen to it. Better do it before Halloween because Audible will make a donation to charity for every download made before the 31st. It's for a good cause.....promoting reading...and it's free.
Duane didn't post it, but it was nice of my friend Arushi to think of me!
Anyway, on the Penguin/Random House merger, does this mean they get to charge us even more for eBooks? ;-)
Anyway, on the Penguin/Random House merger, does this mean they get to charge us even more for eBooks? ;-)
Audible says I can't download the story because I'm in France! What the heck!
@Sophie - Did you try the US link? The UK site didn't let me download but the US site did, coz its supposed to include 'the rest of the world'. @Val - Thanks! Now I do know who posted this :)
@Duane - Love you too! And as for the merger, yeah probably. Plus Random used to be competent (Please remember, I've only dealt with the Indian Publishers) but I wonder what effect Penguin will have on them.. coz they can be quite, not competent.
They own most of the market, so yeah they'll set up more prices and be even more annoying. Its a good thing that there are smaller publishing houses as well as self publishing (which is really taking off thanks to Kindle.)
Well, I'll have plenty of time for reading in the next two days, given that D.C. is basically shut down for the hurricane! I'm so thankful my classes were cancelled. There was no way my textbooks were going to survive a trek across campus in all this rain!
Oh yeah, the hurricane's been all over the news. Stay safe, US east coast peeps!
Yeah, it's only been going for a few hours here and I'm already tired of it. I don't know what's worse, the weather or the people bitching about the weather. Can't even turn on the damned TV without some whiner going at it.
LOL! Coming for a nation of people who are obsessed with the weather, I can sympathise. Just read a book, but avoid ones about crazy women who can control the elements!! (Don't tempt fate!)
It's interesting, the lazy bastards in DC couldn't wait to shut the Government down (wasn't even bad yesterday when they decided to do it, and in fact didn't get bad til this afternoon) but the poor mail carriers had to get their butts out and deliver the mail. Go figure. Of course, I have to work, too. Someone's got to pay for all the Government workers to sit home. ;-(
I'm worried about my family in New Jersey. Luckily, both sets of grandparents have family members coming to stay with them and one set has a generator, so they'll be okay. Unfortunately, several towns are under water and people have already died. I dragged my roommates out hurricane shopping yesterday. We've been filling up containers with water and such, getting ready.
@Lannister are you referencing the Weather Wardens series?
I'm gonna need Sarah and Arushi to be standing far, far away from my menfolk.I had taken today off since I don't go back to work the day after coming off of a vacation. Our office was closed, anyway. It's closed again tomorrow, too.
Hey Mello, did you enjoy your cruise?? Hope you had a good time. Too bad you came back to a hurricane!Claire, I wasn't referring to any particular series. I think there might be a couple that have women controlling weather. Or I might be confused (a strong possibility!) Either way, don't piss off the weather gods today!
My cruise got changed around a lot. We couldn't go to the islands we were supposed to go to because of the storm. I still had an alright time, but the sailing wasn't smooth for most of the last few days of the trip.
People are freaking out about the weather. They're calling for like 3-4" of snow here tonight and it's flurrying outside. Stupid me, I attempt to go to the grocery store for coffee and I can't even find a damn parking space. Seriously?! Sure, we're all going to be stranded tomorrow with the next to no snow that wont even stick because it's been too hot. All I wanted was a coffee!! I'll just laugh at all those idiots when their groceries go bad from lack of power due to the insane freakin wind outside.
@Gin where do you live? I've heard of some places stuck with freak blizzards. West Virginia's gotten like 3 feet of snow.
Everyone on the east coast, stay safe!
@Gin that's interesting, the storm shouldn't hit you guys at all.Thanks Zeenat! Things are just starting to pick up around here.
It's just cold, icy, and windy here. I think maybe they are calling for like 4-8" tonight now. I'm in the mountains though, so they can't predict the weather here for shit.Where are you at Claire?
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