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oakenguyHappy Birthday ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
derspatchel!!!
Props toeclecticavatar for organizing our mob and keeping our party going well, too!
In sadder news, I botched a recipe last night and paid the price. Y'see, for a dessert for Spatch's party I tried a new white chocolate frosting recipe. In the pan it was so melty and liquidy that I decided not to put in nearly as much butter as the recipe called for. I wound up using 1/8th of what I was supposed to. It went on the cakelet with no problem, it looked decent...
...and then, a few hours later, after it had cooled, I tried to stick my plastic fork into a piece and the fork SNAPPED IN TWO. The cake? Across the floor. Half the fork? Also across the floor. Me? Holding what I think they refer to in prison as a 'shank'.
Good times.
derspatchel!!!Props to
eclecticavatar for organizing our mob and keeping our party going well, too!In sadder news, I botched a recipe last night and paid the price. Y'see, for a dessert for Spatch's party I tried a new white chocolate frosting recipe. In the pan it was so melty and liquidy that I decided not to put in nearly as much butter as the recipe called for. I wound up using 1/8th of what I was supposed to. It went on the cakelet with no problem, it looked decent...
...and then, a few hours later, after it had cooled, I tried to stick my plastic fork into a piece and the fork SNAPPED IN TWO. The cake? Across the floor. Half the fork? Also across the floor. Me? Holding what I think they refer to in prison as a 'shank'.
Good times.
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Date: 2007-01-22 12:18 am (UTC)I had to send this post to my parents too. You're my Dave Barry.
hehehehehe
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Date: 2007-01-22 12:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-22 01:07 am (UTC)I eagerly look forward to consuming the cakity leftovers tonight and tomorrow. Thanks for helping celebrate!
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Date: 2007-01-22 01:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-22 02:42 am (UTC)When I first learned to bake cakes and make frosting, I worked from an old copy of Better Homes & Gardens Cookbook. It was a version from the late 1950's that had these gloriously wholesome pictures of suburban American life and lots of little blurbs about how moms can pack the perfect lunch for their kids, etc.
So, me, being about nine years old and without a mom and living with a single dad, decided to teach myself to make cake frosting, and since the instructions on the order in which to combine ingredients weren't convenient to my nine year old eyes, I just would combine everything in one bowl and then wonder why I didn't have the whipped beautiful frosting so evident in the cookbook.
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Date: 2007-01-22 02:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-22 04:30 am (UTC)"What a hoot! Too bad that happened...but what a funny discription of the event!........oh, I noticed it's Oakenguy...isn't that the one that's usually quite witty?"
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Date: 2007-01-22 02:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-22 02:53 pm (UTC)Sorry about that, chief.
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Date: 2007-01-22 03:08 pm (UTC)But now you know how to make a "display" cake!
Okay, seriously now. Sorry to hear about the cake, even though I'm still laughing about it.
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Date: 2007-01-23 08:38 pm (UTC)