Here's a recipe for Honey Bee Cupcakes with White Chocolate Honey Ganache.

http://www.wearenotmartha.com/2015/05/honey-bee-cupcakes-with-white-chocolate-honey-ganache/

I'll bet it's even more fun without the bonus sand.

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I am super late to the Our Thief is 20 party, but better late than never, right?

The cake I chose to make was Greek Honey Cake, from food.com's website. The ingredients included honey and orange, both which are found in TT. Here's what I did.
( Honey! Oranges! Wine! Tiny hooks! )

So, so... After various delays including cake "theft" and a bit of barbaric surgery on a par with that in QoA, when one of my goats broke a horn and had to have it removed with a wire saw and red-hot iron :(, here's my Thief Cake Recipe. I can't figure out how to post photos in a comment, so it's a second cake post ( Read more... )

(Apologies if there is a thread for cake and I just didn't find it.)

Yash and I adapted this recipe for Gen. We also halved it, since there were only two of us to eat a whole cake, and the thought of a two-layer cake was a bit overwhelming. Our measurements were a bit odd, though - I'll add the unhalved recipe below ( Read more... )

(While we’re all waiting for the HGE to open...)
Following on from canonisrelative’s post about The Thief being 20 on 1st October this year, how does anyone fancy going about having a party for the occasion ( Read more... )

A friend recently had an Attolian themed dinner!

Pics may be found here:
( Pictures )

A Bujold listie posted her first story here ( Read more... )

Last week, freenarnian had a wonderful post about holiday reads that sparked some great recommendations and discussions. I'm usually days behind, & didn't want anyone to miss out on these reads, hence this separate post ( Read more... )

I hope I'm not stepping on the be-knitted-and-be-socked toes (mix-matched, or "liberated", of course!) of the "while she knits" posts here, but I've been nosing around for a good topic to post, and finally today I thought of one.

( Of general coziness. )

One of the best cooks on the Bujold list just mentioned "a long, slow Greek Kleftiko (Thieves stew) where the meat is packed with its vegetables in a sealed container with little (but enough) water or wine and cooked VERY slowly for eight to ten hours. Because the juice is minimal, the flavor stays in the meat, but ( Read more... )