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omg your practice cake was gorgeous, remy!

Rubyredd - that is SUPER cute.

i could make a cake like that, rubyredd, woodringy and all, but i really abhor fondant. i am currently experimenting with moldable white chocolate for draping, but it is difficult stuff and v. temperature sensitive.

mas aqui sobre torta

I love the way fondant looks, but have never tried it - BUT everyone always says it is not enjoyable. But I just want the chance to TRY IT.

My cousin had a tiny fondant-covered cake for her wedding last summer, but the cake they served was sheet cake with a totally different icing. I don't know if it was a cost thing or what, but I was a bit disappointed.

btw, my wedding cake was frosted with white frosting but it was a chocolate cake. Worked fine.

white chocolate always seems too sweet to me.

fondant is nasty foul stuff with an alarming kinship to fetal drywall.

Whoa... ugh. Maybe I don't want to try it.

no, you really don't

is fondant like marzipan?

I really did enjoy reading through that, though. LOL about the cake stand that was a lazy susan and two copies of The Canterbury Tales...

marzipan is unbelievably awesome.

(So I assume not!) xpost

marzipan is mostly sugar, about 5% almond, quite flavored and crumbly-moldable.

fondant is supersaturated sugar with corn syrup/some other glucose interfering with the crystal formation, it is mostly flavorless and smooth-moldable

i really want that woodring cake for my wedding.

wood cake

xpost That would be unique and fun (regardless of the taste of the fondant)!

When I got married, I had no concept about what kind of cake we might want. It was fun to go around tasting them at bakeries, though.

i want a chocolate wedding cake, none of this traditional fucking fruitcake bullshit we have here in nz.

Okay, why would people have fruitcake? That is just mental.

In the U.S. "traditional wedding cake" = dry white cake with white frosting of some kind. But I like the chocolate under white frostings (especially if it has some other element like, say, raspberry filling...). Also, I've seen photos of GORGEOUS chocolate wedding cakes with chocolate frosting. If I were getting married now I would totally look at that option and forget the traditional bullshit.

sara chocolate under white frosting is genius and, if i ever get married and actually have the whole reception to-do, i will most definitely have a chocolate cake! though maybe not white frosting. my sister actually had green frosting, which sounds kind of gross but it looked beautiful.

fondant is an abomination, though it looks really nice.

tehresa, I wish I could see a picture of the cake with the green frosting!

I love you to death for calling chocolate under white frosting "genius" - at the time it just seemed like a good compromise between tradition and something people might like to eat. I wish I had a scanner; I would post a photo. I highly recommend the combination for your potential future wedding reception!

So fondant must be popular on looks alone. I've never heard anyone say they liked it.

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bedtime bump

All this cakes are awesome.

I go off to eat fucking chocolate now bump.

Up strangely early but not scarily so. I think it's the warm weather. Of which I am most fond.

We had three layers of wedding cake:

Lemon raspberry
Chocolate Grand Marnier
White chocolate strawberry

all was very very yum but the place that made our cake went ouf of business ;_;

tehresa, that is gorgeous!

Dan, I am envying your cakes. I think the options for wedding stuff got a lot cooler after 1995. (Well, you also didn't have to contend with Jane The What Is Proper for a Wedding Monster).

Ned, are you trying to make me cry with your talk of warm weather?!

I am listening to David Bowie and eating a brownie that is so rich and gooey I've been able to make it last three days.

^^^ That is one serious brownie.

Guys, help me learn Italian in a week.

That would be a lot easier if any of us knew Italian. Are you sure you wouldn't like to learn some Japanese?

(also... WHY? If you are going to Italy I am going to be insanely envious. Just so you know.)

i am here to apologize for my lack of thread contribution over the weekend

i am deeply shamed

omg you guys

JOHN IS THE EASTER BUNNY

OH SHIT A RABBIT

SCARIEST EASTER BUNNY EVER

I would not want to shit a rabbit.

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WHY = I am starting rehearsals on Saturday for an Italian opera that is insanely fast with about a bazillion words in it. I am not going to be able to phoenetically produce the words as fast as they need to be for about another 3 weeks.

That sounds fun/exciting. And I have great faith that you will be able to get those words out faster than you think.

which opera, dan?
just remember: VOWELS VOWELS VOWELS!

you can just sort of link the vowels together w/ consonants... don't let em get in the way too much.

tehresa OTM. Fake it until you make it, dude.

And tell us about this opera. I'm going to be disappointed if it doesn't involve Port-O-Lets this time.

urinetown the musical

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernani

oh wau i just read that play for theater history last month!

I have never heard of it, which is entirely unsurprising.

I need remedial Everything classes.

record rereleases moving forward way faster than intended, which, stacked on top of new house is making me tnessssseeesee

Can we call you Arrsteed Dveloepemnt for short?

wau tehresa, synergy

John - I feel like I should offer you some help here, but my schedule is going to be a huge mess once classes start on Thurs. That being said, if you and K. need it, maybe I could find an hour or two to help you pack/clean/sort at some point before your moving day.

I have yet to imagine any way to help Dan learn Italian, though. Um... you could listen to language podcasts. The only people I know who know Italian moved to Seattle. ;_;