Uhm, geek nite could be interesting. I volunteered to do the cake. My result was a chocolate brownie thing where the crunchy top decided to de-laminate from the undercooked underneath which had attached itself intimately to the greaseproof paper lining. My advice is that you check you have the right size cake pan (which I hadn't anticipated) and ( Read more... )

My current vocabulary consists of "gaah! my head!" and current activity is trying to read the instruction booklet for the Sims. Alternatively, I will consume some Calorie-Poor Caffeine-Bearing Refreshment-Drink.

Secondly, my christmas cake has put dosk off cake for the duration.

I have made a Christmas cake so drunk that it cries about dark rooms and alka seltzer.

My name is Buzzy and my food is trying to kill me.

Otherwise known as peanut butter sandwich of extreme stickiness.

The internet is wonderful, because I found the physically mislaid crazily alcoholic fruit cake through careful examination of last december's post. Cake is very much outnumbered by the fruit quotient. Fruit etc is boiled in brandy ( Read more... )

Besides making the Cake today (which in spite of repeated spiking proved half-cooked when chopped) and ingesting way too much butterceam/butter/sugar with butter/butter with sugar, I had a dream about the Professionals. While Cowley may well give a prisoner a subtle kick in the ribs, I doubt he would then hand over to a man in a grass skirt - I'm ( Read more... )

Today, I have made cake. A Victoria Sponge, a massive Victoria Sponge with about a pound of butter in it. That makes it sound like a heart attack on a plate (and my healthy-eating-obsessed boss would say) but it is glorious and filled with blackberry jam and butter cream ( Read more... )

The brane is not my friend and has not been very friendly since Wednesday afternoon (where I was distinctly fuzzy and challenged by best before dates) so bliss! SUNSHINE! BUNNIES ( Read more... )

It seems that I am now expected to bake a cake for fathers' day too ( Read more... )

Can we just write off Wednesday and Thursday and send them on a quick cross-chanel non-lander ( Read more... )

I knew I would go splat after a day of being spaced and floaty ( Read more... )