I promised to post pics of my Christmas crafts weeks ago. 
I finally found the pictures (and the motivation) this afternoon.

Next year's decorations are going to be so amazing!  When I find motivation to start those sometime this year, that is...


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I can't believe I waited so long to get into knitting and crocheting and sewing and all that jazz.  I fought SO HARD when I was a young teen to NOT do any of this stuff at school in Home Economics; I hated "Home Ick", and was far more interested in playing around in shop class or music and art classes.  Now, I'm at the point in my life where I ( Read more... )

Feel free to ignore this post if it doesn't apply; some people have asked me for this information through LJ, and this was the quickest method I could think of to get it to them!

As always, clicky to "embigginate"... ;o)

( 2010 Christmas Fruitcake Pricing List )

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Sadly, I was away sick last Friday, which meant I had no pictures of the lovely Creme Brulees, the Panna cottas and the other beautiful treats we made. However, I did bake two Yule Logs earlier this week (one chocolate and one vanilla), which were received with great delight!
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...I took some pics of the things we were doing in my final lab of the semester today.
It was tempering chocolate, and making chocolate stuff with the tempered chocolate.  Oh, and also bagging up our gingerbread houses we made on Tuesday (they needed time to dry).

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Fruitcake #2 is cooling now.

Wish me luck.

UPDATE:

How can you say "yuk!" to something as yummy as *this*?

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This should probably go into the baking failures community.  I'll put it under the caption "Stupidy-Head's Impatience Causes Devastating Fruitcake Unmoulding Incident".
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...sadly, not Sidney Poitier.  Ok, to be truthful, nobody's coming.  I'm just punch-drunk from being on my feet in the kitchen for HOURS

But I *did* manage to get something done that's been on my to do list for a while, which is make some really nice fruitcakes -- two different kinds, actually.

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