TO MOLLIFY LINGJACKSON OVERDRIVEBERT WHO IS THE SQUEAKY DESERT FIEND, POST ON THIS THREAD AND ONE OF YOUR FRIENDLY ITR MODS WILL TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE WICKED AWESOME, AND POSSIBLY OFFER AN EFFUSIVE ST

cake is really easy for me, but i don't know how to cook it except by weighting all the ingredients: i can't use standard measures at all, and i fuck up a lot when i try.

Well, I could make cookies for both of you and nag you to STOP TALKING AND GO TO SLEEP. I just have to make you both hang out in the same general area.

DUCT TAPE xxpost

remy, that's right - you do the fancy wedding cakes!

We have a food scale, but I only used it during my nutrition class. Hmmmm. Maybe I should try that.

hehe. how come my google reader is now recommending me a MN blog? do they know i am posting on this thread?!

Fantastic cake answers all round. I don't trust fancy-looking cakes anyway. Those are the cakes that deceive. This is turning into a head-hunting....

Your computer knows you are fraternizing with Minnesotans, and apparently wants to encourage this behavior.

I don't know what to make of that.

"head-hunting" sounds faintly alarming

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v231/reesielicious/100_0105.jpg

do i win?

moooooooom the internet's making me hungry....

p.s. that is sponge cakes from scratch, pastry cream made with vanilla bean and diced candied orange, and then those oranges around the outside were candied with grand marnier.

how did you preserve the shape/texture?

That is very fancy! - and wow, what a description!

But I can't choose between the two of you, so you're going to just have to live with becoming adopted ILX siblings or something.

shellac xpost

spring form pan, buttered and sugared, then lined with the oranges. the cake and pastry cream layers were built into it, then refrigerated for many hours to set. flipped over just prior to serving.

I think what most impresses me about that cake is the oranges that were candied with grand marnier. Yum and so pretty!

re: shellac - NOT EVERYONE DOES THAT TO PRESERVE THEIR FOOD, JOHN. IN FACT, I THINK IT MIGHT ONLY BE YOU

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Am I the only person here who loves to eat dark chocolate covered orange peel? SO GOOD

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2043/2142697544_854c38bfac.jpg

rose napoleon i made for xmas this year.

omg sara i LOVE those! there was a place in rochester that made them with very minimal gel and more peeliness. it was awesome.

YES YES YES ALL THE PUDDINGS AND SWEET THINGS PLEASE

john is a turd-polisher

and no sara, i love it to eat chox-coated orange peel but diet means i can't.

That is usually what I buy when I go to the candy store. My MIL made a bunch of it one year for us for Xmas, but I think it is a *lot* of work.

Also, now I must visit that store in Rochester. NY is kind of a ways off, but...

Oh yay, pudding! I will make it from scratch sometimes, but not often because my husband doesn't like it that much. (Well, except for the chocolate bread pudding, but that's kind of different).

remy, I am sad for your diet not allowing for chocolate orange peel! ;_;

my diet doesn't allow a lot. but soon i will be in shape and can eat again. (176 --> 145 + 5lbs muscle)

GO REMY!

I suppose I should go pick up my biological children from school...

T/S "turd-polisher" vs. "turd-burglar"

i think turdburgler has a nicer poetic ring to it

m'kay Sara. *sniffs*

my diet requires i go eat something gross now. this thread has done a great job of distracting me from the crapness that was my day but I am going to tag in my good friend beer to continue the job.

'turd-fondler' also good btw.

lol ASSonance omg my sides doctor pepper what

lol why bring doctor pepper into it?

remy, if it makes you feel better, i have not had a chocorange peel in years. and good job w/ the diet!

Why are you all talking about poo. Disgusting.

Yay Remy diet. Not that I was helping by making him drink his way up the coast.

Ned Raggett IS The Drinking Enforcer.

ahem

Okay, so maybe it is John.

Or possibly it is a regional title.

I await the release of Ned and John's Excellent Drinking Adventure.

btw i'm pretty good at forcing people to drink, too.

we may have discovered a underlying theme to itr here

Clearly, you are in charge of the Northeastern region.

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sara, go see if you can get one of your children to drink so we know if you are in or out xxpost

Wait, John just noticed the underlying theme TODAY?! What is in those Dr. Peppers anyway?

Now, Irish, you know I could never compete with you.

Well, I'm going to leave for class soon so that I can either totally ace or completely fail tonight's test (no idea which). I hope the rest of you have plans that are less lame than that...

i gonna meet a friend for quick dinner and then see two albee plays :)