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todayiamadaisy) wrote2020-11-17 09:34 pm
todayiamadaisy) wrote2020-11-17 09:34 pm
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I have spent all day on Zoom meetings. Not much to write about there, so here's a question meme about cakes.
What’s your favorite cake?
When I was little, my mother had a recipe book bought as a fundraiser for something or other. Recipes from the hospital auxiliary or some such. That had a simple chocolate cake in it that we made so often that the book would fall open at that page. So that was clearly my favourite cake at some point.
These days, I think it's hard to go past a good basic sponge. Like biting a cloud.
When did you last have pancakes?
A couple of weeks ago to use up some buttermilk. I had Nutella and strawberries on them.
When did you last bake a cake or a cake-like thing?
I don't make a lot of cakes as a rule, more biscuits (because they keep better) or bread-like things. I think the last cake I made a was a few months ago, a Japanese fruit roll cake, which was pleasingly sponge-like.
What part of your job is a piece of cake?
The first thing I do every day is post the commitment journal, which adds the previous day's orders to the ledger. This involves opening a document and clicking the "accept" button. Nothing could be simpler.
Where have you had a really good cupcake?
I can't remember last time I had a cupcake. My grandmother used to make patty cakes, which were cupcakes but smaller than the ones you get now.
If she was feeling really fancy she would turn them into butterfly cakes, by slicing the top off the cake, cutting it in half, then reattaching with cream. Like so. They were great.
Bonus question: What are your thoughts on icing?
The first thing I wrote was "love it". But then I thought: I don't care for those cakes with beehives of frosting, more frosting than cake. I also don't like really sweet icing. So: love it, as long as it's tangy and in proportion to the cake it's covering.
What’s your favorite cake?
When I was little, my mother had a recipe book bought as a fundraiser for something or other. Recipes from the hospital auxiliary or some such. That had a simple chocolate cake in it that we made so often that the book would fall open at that page. So that was clearly my favourite cake at some point.
These days, I think it's hard to go past a good basic sponge. Like biting a cloud.
When did you last have pancakes?
A couple of weeks ago to use up some buttermilk. I had Nutella and strawberries on them.
When did you last bake a cake or a cake-like thing?
I don't make a lot of cakes as a rule, more biscuits (because they keep better) or bread-like things. I think the last cake I made a was a few months ago, a Japanese fruit roll cake, which was pleasingly sponge-like.
What part of your job is a piece of cake?
The first thing I do every day is post the commitment journal, which adds the previous day's orders to the ledger. This involves opening a document and clicking the "accept" button. Nothing could be simpler.
Where have you had a really good cupcake?
I can't remember last time I had a cupcake. My grandmother used to make patty cakes, which were cupcakes but smaller than the ones you get now.
If she was feeling really fancy she would turn them into butterfly cakes, by slicing the top off the cake, cutting it in half, then reattaching with cream. Like so. They were great.
Bonus question: What are your thoughts on icing?
The first thing I wrote was "love it". But then I thought: I don't care for those cakes with beehives of frosting, more frosting than cake. I also don't like really sweet icing. So: love it, as long as it's tangy and in proportion to the cake it's covering.