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I successfully made whoopie pies yesterday! From scratch!
I'm so proud of myself. XD
I was really afraid they wouldn't turn out. You know that whole "lazy cook" thing I have? Well that makes me one hell of a shitty baker, because baking kinda requires exact measurements. I think I got lucky last night because I was off in a lot of things. Like I left out half a stick of butter, substituted yogurt for sour cream (I do more with yogurt, so I tend to keep it around. Sour cream is only used for tacos for me), and forwent the butter in the frosting entirely, deciding that cream cheese and sugar were good enough on their own.
Why yes, yes they are. :3
I'm so amazed the cake part turned out, because it had the consistency of play dough and kept eating the Mixer of Doom (that has pretty much 3 speed settings: fast, insanely fast, and black hole fast). Since I've finally gotten the hang of bread consistency, this was weird to me. But it worked! And best of all the whole thing isn't this sickly sweet concoction that I was afraid of. It's actually barely sweet, which is all kinds of cool with the sugared cream cheese.
Win!
All in all my Valentine's day was good, although I've been tending to get morose at night for some reason lately, and last night was so exception. So I watched The Darkness videos and listened to the crazies in my head until I finally tried to throw myself in bed. The insomnia is bad right now.
So in an effort to make me feel better my brain just made things worse and gave me all sorts of those dreams that you hate to have because they suck waking up from, but at the same time you don't want to say that you never want to have them again because...well, that would suck too.
Makes it suck worse when you're convinced there actually is someone laying next to you until you open your eyes. Thank you brain. I wasn't lonely until you did that.
And now, to work. :P
I'm so proud of myself. XD
I was really afraid they wouldn't turn out. You know that whole "lazy cook" thing I have? Well that makes me one hell of a shitty baker, because baking kinda requires exact measurements. I think I got lucky last night because I was off in a lot of things. Like I left out half a stick of butter, substituted yogurt for sour cream (I do more with yogurt, so I tend to keep it around. Sour cream is only used for tacos for me), and forwent the butter in the frosting entirely, deciding that cream cheese and sugar were good enough on their own.
Why yes, yes they are. :3
I'm so amazed the cake part turned out, because it had the consistency of play dough and kept eating the Mixer of Doom (that has pretty much 3 speed settings: fast, insanely fast, and black hole fast). Since I've finally gotten the hang of bread consistency, this was weird to me. But it worked! And best of all the whole thing isn't this sickly sweet concoction that I was afraid of. It's actually barely sweet, which is all kinds of cool with the sugared cream cheese.
Win!
All in all my Valentine's day was good, although I've been tending to get morose at night for some reason lately, and last night was so exception. So I watched The Darkness videos and listened to the crazies in my head until I finally tried to throw myself in bed. The insomnia is bad right now.
So in an effort to make me feel better my brain just made things worse and gave me all sorts of those dreams that you hate to have because they suck waking up from, but at the same time you don't want to say that you never want to have them again because...well, that would suck too.
Makes it suck worse when you're convinced there actually is someone laying next to you until you open your eyes. Thank you brain. I wasn't lonely until you did that.
And now, to work. :P