Dad's Favorite Bourbon Cake

Includes:
1 lb maraschino cherries, chopped
1/2 lb dates, chopped
1 pint bourbon
3/4 lb butter
6 eggs
1 lb sugar
1 c brown sugar
5 c flour
nutmeg, salt, baking powder
1 lb pecans, chopped

It is a heavy cake.

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When she's completed her pair of Jaywalkers and is waiting for HandpaintedYarn.com to send her the laceweight she'll use for Mystery Stole 4?

Why, bake banana bread, of course.

This is getting out of control. I can't seem to wash the dishes faster than I dirty them. Everyone hope the yarn will get here soon.

~ Jaywalker Socks update: I'm not sure exactly how I did it, but the Widdershins heel is complete. No thanks to my pattern having a different number of stitches from theirs. I learned something new and may actually use the technique again. Neat!


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I forgot to mention I added a couple handfuls of chopped pecans to the carrot cake batter. I like the taste of them but don't enjoy the texture of my cake to be interrupted by giant chunks of pecan, so I really did pulverize them in the food processor until they were in teeny tiny little pieces.

Nom nom nom.

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Double layer carrot cake with cream cheese icing so good it's probably illegal (original recipe, found through rosefox)


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I was reminded this evening, as I was making another giant cookie with icing and fruit on top, that I should get on the ball and post pictures of one of my (several) sweaters in progress.


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Okay. To be totally honest, I haven't been getting all that much knitting done. This is ungood for the several things in my queue that are time sensitive and/or are for other people. (I have a couple sets of cat toys and a custom made cat that are all about half finished for winners of eilonwy's Project Cat. Next week. They are at the top of my list ( Read more... )