Created as a response to my boss' highly alcoholic gin cake, heavily based on this recipe but translated to sensible units and tweaked a bit: http://www.thefoodinmybeard.com/recipe/chocolate-rum-cake/ (do visit this link, it has some useful photos of the ( Read more... )

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I have finished my masters' group project, which greatly resembled a 6-week long uphill trek whilst dragging the rest of the group most of the way. Anyway, it is now done, and my enthusiasm for the subject surprisingly remains ( Read more... )

Say hello to Loncon3's newest area head!

Currently baking a cake to a recipe from woodpijn, using chocolate from J and cherry preserve from khalinche (only downside - now run out of cherry preserve).


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Good Worldcon meeting. Drunk now! Wondering whether I should make cake. Why should I not make cake? Justify yourselves.


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The first in a series of stuff what I made over Christmas/new year.

Here is our frankly awesome (if non-traditional pink) Christmas cake:


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Masters course lectures are getting longer and longer... In the first couple of modules they took an hour per lecture, or maybe 2 for the longer ones. This module I keep being greeted with "expect this session to take 8 hours". There's a 12 hour one yet to come. They do suggest stopping points, but it's a lot more work than I was expecting ( Read more... )

Things I made this week:


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There is an amazing anatomical cake exhibition on at St Bart's this weekend, someone should go and see it ( Read more... )

A while ago,
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