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[oakenguy]

The mousse, whipped cream, and icebox cake are chilling in the fridge beside the Flemish stew I made a couple days ago. Once I'm done here it'll be time to go make the molasses cookies and maybe a couple bonbons...nothing fancy, just something to decorate the cake with.

I think I'm getting a little out of control with the cooking/baking thing. It's winter...nothing makes me want to hover around a hot stove like having it be dark and cold outside.



So, last night there was a little summit over dinner as we discussed possibly selling high-quality sweets at certain faires. There's this gourmet dark chocolate = profits notion that's totally wacky, but hey, it just might work.

Mind you, after one drink there was also talk about having chocolate theme packets based around the performers at a given faire. Like, a 'Good, Bad and Ugly' truffle assortment.

After two drinks we decided the Autumn Tree Fighter truffles would come in nine layers of foil and have a gooey red center.

After three drinks we got inspired by Outback Steakhouse and thought that the business should be 'Ye Olde Englishe Trufflehouse', and we'd name all the different varieties after different historical figures ("The Richard III truffle: small, misshapen, and totally nuts")

After *four* drinks we were talking about photoshopping pictures of cast members onto gingerbread cookies. Voodoo doll possibilities were mentioned. Including a piece of metal inside the Sheriff of Nottingham cookie was toyed with, but...you know...health codes.

Did I mention that all but the first drink were caffeinated? I think there was a fifth drink, but I don't remember much about it.

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[coscaram.livejournal.com]

*...a piece of metal inside the Sheriff of Nottingham cookie was toyed with*


Tee-Hee!!!

[plastickitty.livejournal.com]

Brilliant ideas! I love cooking around this time of year as well.

[lixie.livejournal.com]

Ice box cake? Bonbons? Share recipe please?

[simply-juniper.livejournal.com]

And mine were all water after the first.

We're nuts. :)

[prettydark.livejournal.com]

it all sounds good to me, except the metal in the cookie. that just sounds crazy. :)

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Eeeeheeheeheehee.
I think it's brilliant.
I'd buy 'em.

Although I have to make a note that I read this without my glasses, so at first I thought it said,
"The mouse, whipped cream, and icebox cake are chilling in the fridge"

Heh heh heh.

[elkster.livejournal.com]

Yeah! We need recipes!

[simply-juniper.livejournal.com]

Can't give out recipes if it's going to be sold. ;) It'll be a big secret.

[frla.livejournal.com]

candy bb's
remember them?

there's your edible little piee of metal

KK!

[godswraith.livejournal.com]

Richard III was not misshapen nor nuts.

Wet blanketly yours,

JT, card carrying member, Richard III Society

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Historically, it's true, he wasn't. But Bri could do a set of Shakespeare candies, since *Shakespeare's* Richard III certainly was.

I think a set of Shakespeare candies should seriously be looked into. You could have Sebastien and Viola - the candies look identical, but one has nuts and the other doesn't. Hotspur could be a firm caramel, tough as old shoe leather, and Dogsbury I see as a piece of quite dark licorice. And then Duncan, with a cherry liqueur center - far more red liquid inside than you would have thought the thing could hold!

Oh, the possibilities are endless!

[godswraith.livejournal.com]

Oh, theres a PLAY about Richard III ? Who knew ! ;)

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Ah, but remember this is in the spirit of the Outback Steakhouse. Accuracy? Purity? Pshaw!

(Unless their Great Barrier Punch is really meant to taste like water around the Great Barrier Reef, in which case we need to rethink the entire idea.)

[rantarn.livejournal.com]

"M&M's of Action! We don't melt in your hand at all!"

[godswraith.livejournal.com]

Hah! Love it!

[hazeleyedfae.livejournal.com]

Hey, did I ever send you my address, oakenguy?

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

You did not!

[may-eve.livejournal.com]

younever answer your phone, you bum. you need to start doing that.

hahahahah

[sotp-chris.livejournal.com]

I was just scrolling through the entries and catching up on days upon days of entries, not even bothering to start with the oldest I'd read and back up to present time... just killing time at work while it's slow... wondering why I wasn't doing something remotely productive...and then I get to your post and the "Autumn Tree Fighter truffles would come in nine layers of foil and have a gooey red center" and was rewarded with laughing out loud and heartily. You rock.