The other complication with that cake is that my daughter doesn't believe in non-chocolate cakes. I mean, she believes they exist, she just doesn't understand why.
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Gudanov - Oct 16, 2009 7:48:01 am PDT #26614 of 30000
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Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 16, 2009 7:51:46 am PDT #26615 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Well, she didn't need the sweaters anyway.
Hee. I'd tell her this, but she's a bit concerned about the laptop and video camera that were in the case. So it might not be a sensible thing to say.
I mean, she believes they exist, she just doesn't understand why.
Your daughter is wise. I understand that viewpoint.
Glamcookie - Oct 16, 2009 7:52:02 am PDT #26616 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Gud, your daughter and my DW are as one on that issue. Chocolate cake with chocolate icing. Period.
Barb - Oct 16, 2009 7:53:21 am PDT #26617 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Raspberry and chocolate are a perfectly acceptable combination.
Speaking of cake, I've been toying with the idea of messing with a German Chocolate cake recipe. I realized that the thing I like best about German chocolate cake is the frosting. But that when I have it with the traditional milk chocolate cake, it seems almost overwhelmingly sweet and that the frosting would taste even better if it was contrasted with something darker and with more depth. So I'm thinking of making a dark chocolate fudge cake and topping it with the coconut pecan frosting.
Would that be heresy?
Aims - Oct 16, 2009 7:55:14 am PDT #26618 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
You had me at "cake".
Kathy A - Oct 16, 2009 7:55:55 am PDT #26619 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I actually prefer white, yellow, or lemon cake over chocolate--I'm a heretic. Put vanilla frosting on it, or some buttercream with strawberries and bananas mixed in, and I'm in heaven. Yum!
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 16, 2009 7:56:28 am PDT #26620 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Raspberry and chocolate are a perfectly acceptable combination.
No no no no no. Chocolate mixed with almost anything is Very Bad. (Ice cream being one of just a few exceptions to the rule.) Someone brought me a chocolate and vanilla cheesecake, and it's sitting in the fridge because I can't eat it, because chocolate should be a solo taste.
Barb - Oct 16, 2009 8:03:37 am PDT #26621 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Heh. I'm fairly simple in my tastes-- I don't like combining too many things, but good dark chocolate with one other flavor, be it mint, or raspberry or coconut is right up there with sexual bliss for me.
WindSparrow - Oct 16, 2009 8:05:30 am PDT #26622 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Feel free to ship your chocolate-vanilla abomination to me, Seska. I'd be happy to remove it from this plane of existence.
tommyrot - Oct 16, 2009 8:06:31 am PDT #26623 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I love European (for lack of a better word) candy, like chocolate filled with raspberry liqueur or whatnot....