Cake

[Marc Joan]

Been a while since anyone brought cake to this place, so-:

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Newly baked, do I smell....

 

[Rich.]

Where's @Robinne Weiss? I see a bake off coming on.

 

[Barbara]

Ooooooooohhhhhh

 

[Marc Joan]

You can look, but you can't touch.

 

[Barbara]

You can look, but you can't touch.

It looks delish.

 

[Marc Joan]

Wish I could take the credit but it was my daughter...

 

[Nikky Lee]

On the topic of cake: here's a ghost cake I knocked together for Halloween morning tea at the office.

 

[Emily]

That's a *beautiful* cake your daughter made, @Marc Joan , I can almost smell it's deliciousness from here

I made a very boring (but very fruity-tasty) tea brack today for the season that is in it! Doesn't have the alluring good looks of a marbled or ghostly affair though...

 

[Matnov]

 

[Amber]

I like to watch that British Baking show.

 

[Marc Joan]

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Booo!

 

[Marc Joan]

That's a *beautiful* cake your daughter made, @Marc Joan , I can almost smell it's deliciousness from here

I made a very boring (but very fruity-tasty) tea brack today for the season that is in it! Doesn't have the alluring good looks of a marbled or ghostly affair though...

Looks good to me!

 

[Emily]

It may be the Plain Jane of cakes and not the prettiest, but tastes delicious for sure (and is probably the easiest cake ever to make: win/win!!)

 

[Matnov]

Booo!

Don't say you were not warned.

 

[Marc Joan]

Don't say you were not warned.

This is just too funny! Shatner's bassoon and custard gannets. Oh yes.

 

[Robinne Weiss]

Sorry, I didn't bake a cake this week, and the devil's food cupcakes I made last week are all gone. But I'm listening to the soundtrack to the Hobbit, so here's one of the many LOTR cakes I've done for the kids. It was a terrible day for this cake, those chocolate feathers were melting in the summer heat...

 

[Emily]

That's amazing @Robinne Weiss ! Any close ups of the feathers??

 

[Rich.]

The eagles are coming!

 

[AliG]

Wish you all hadn't mentioned cake...now I have to bake, just to keep up.... sighs heavily (more heavily in about an hour....)

 

[Marc Joan]

Wish you all hadn't mentioned cake...now I have to bake, just to keep up.... sighs heavily (more heavily in about an hour....)

If there are no photos, it didn't happen.

 

[Robinne Weiss]

That's amazing @Robinne Weiss ! Any close ups of the feathers??

Sorry, none. They are pretty cool though, eh? Made by painting melted chocolate onto akeake leaves, then peeling the leaves off. I used the same technique to make these chocolate leaves:

 

[Emily]

Very cool! Must try that

 

[Nikky Lee]

Agree! You have inspired me @Robinne Weiss!

 

[Nikky Lee]

Attended a book festival today. Look at the cake they made!

 

[Barbara]

Attended a book festival today. Look at the cake they made!

Wow

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Love the dragon. Endearing and Hilarious!

And Robinne is a prodigy.

I am making a warm winter SALAD for lunch.

Sob.

 

[Marc Joan]

Your cake art surpasses my own, and maybe it is a sublimated and subverted competitive instinct, but photos of cake make me want to scream in terror.
They remind me of the many sugar-headache inducing monstrosities I've made over the years. Too many birthdays..cupcakes for the school, and dragon cakes and doll cakes for the parties.. and when there is cake in the house, you always end up having it for lunch, even though it tastes like poison. Summary: too much cake leads to a bad attitude about cake.
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I always find Barbie dolls a bit chewy, but each to his own.