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the actual making of these cakepops was rather uneventful, however the day i made them, was not. see, lots of people have a completely irrational fear of the dentist… while i suffer from anxiety disorders, i do not have a fear of the dentist, despite my experiences. i understand that this may make me insane.
okay, so you saw what i went through this past weekend for ed’s birthday…however i did not post the recipes. i will be honest, i wasn’t going to, but i got enough requests for it, that i feel that i should. the title of this post does not just reflect the subject line of the e-mail sent out for ed’s surprise party (which was a success btw– he was speechless, and ed is never speechless), but it is also arming you with a secret weapon. there is a reason why i went with the chocolate cupcake recipe that i did when trying to recover from the disasters: this really is the best (plain) chocolate cake ever.
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i will admit to being proud of my cookies. my scones are delightful. my cupcakes are great. my cakes… my cakes are disasters. if there wasn’t already a wildly popular site called cakewrecks, i would consider creating a section on my site with that name. let me tell you about my weekend, which resulted in putting flowers on a cake for my friend ed, a 40 year old male.
this past sunday, my kitchen and i were attacked by a moose. wait, no… a mousse. but we were attacked, i assure you of this. i considered taking some photos of the mess, but the lighting in my kitchen isn’t so great, and i would rather concentrate on how magnificent this cake is. i wish i had recorded the reactions it received, but since i did not, i suggest that you make this cake for the next special occasion (yes, today sounds like a day worth celebrating to me) and hear them for yourself! although some of the remarks were “heavenly,” “melt in your mouth good,” “if awesome had a taste, this would be it,” etc… the best reactions were the ones that were noises rather than words. it is the biggest compliment to me as a recreational baker when people accuse me of purchasing at a bakery!
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i have to say that my first attempt at pineapple upside-down cake was a success! i will admit though that there was a moment of nervousness as i was lifting up the pan, waiting to see what i would find under there…especially since i thought it was starting to smell like the pineapple and brown sugar were burning! thank goodness, there was certainly no burning!
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as you may have gathered, i like a lot of the folks i work with…good peoples, i tell’ya. there are, however, some that really stand out– one of the absolute sweetest people i have ever met celebrated her birthday last week, but since we were at conference, we shall celebrate on monday. so, happy birthday, sherrin! you truly are an amazing, strong, caring, hard-working gal who deserves amazing things! since this is a cake, and i can’t very well slice into it in advance without ruining it, i am really hoping that this cake is amazing…
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my friend sheryl, who i made the depression cake for, was planning her grad school graduation party, and in the discussions I agreed to make her a vegan cake. Initially, she requested a banana cake with peanut butter and chocolate, however I was unable to find a banana cake recipe that would be perfect for a party (people tend to be picky about banana things), so after a trial run of banana versus chocolate, we decided that her cake would be chocolate and peanut butter. i did not want to just use the same recipe that i used for her birthday cake, so i tried out a similar one that got great reviews. the samples were devoured, and we had a winner on our hands!
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it was birthday time on my team again– this time for kevin, who runs eleet music, so the logical cake choice for him was music-related. i considered one that was shaped like a musical note, but i realized that since i don’t have a pan shaped like that i would be cutting from a half-sheet, which would result in less cake. and around here, we like more cake! i went with what i thought was the next best thing, decorating a cake with a bar of “happy birthday to you”. when i was looking up the sheet music, i found that no two were identical (different keys, etc), so i just picked one. turns out that i still can’t decorate a cake very well…but it’s the thought that counts. right…? i hope so.
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ok, so as you know, i bake for the birthdays of my employees. i try to make them all as individualized as i can, like lauren’s gigundo poptart or andy’s zombie cupcakes. so when carlos’ birthday came up i knew i had to do something around the yankees since he is a die-hard fan. i thought about shaping a cake into the yankees logo, or putting a baseball diamond on top of a cake… but then i remembered that i kinda stink at that sort of thing. i am a good baker and a mediocre decorator; as you can see in the pictures here, i couldn’t even get the icing smooth- tho i am letting myself off the hook because i used marshmallow fluff icing, which is much harder to spread.
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this past week has been a little insane, so my plans to post during the week just didn’t happen. then, i cancelled the photo/video shoot that i had planned for yesterday– my dad is in the hospital so i didn’t know if there would be any emergencies, and since my mom was leaving today, i decided it was the right thing to do to cancel the shoot and spend some time with her. the ironic thing is that while sitting on my grandmother’s couch with her she explained to me that she was going through withdrawal from me not having any new blog posts for a week. i will tellya, i had some fun things planned for the shoot, so i sure hope i get to do it soon! i will admit though that spending some time with mom and going for a relaxing shea butter swedish massage sure was a nice way to spend a saturday!
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