I would not double - I would probably add about 5-8 minutes and then start checking every few minutes.

Yeah, I agree. Time to bake is based on how thick the cake is rather than the horizontal dimensions, so if you're baking it in a larger pan it shouldn't take twice as long.

Also, don't double the salt. 1.5x at most or your cake will taste salty.

TCG called at noon today to wish me a happy one week anniversary. He is so adorable.

I think G is coming down with something, he spent most of the day clinging to me and bursting into tears at any little thing that went wrong For example a tangled string on one of his toys, rather than handing it to me and saying, "fix it", instant tears. It's not like him. Whatever he is coming down with; I am hoping he didn't manage to pass it on to me today.

Much health-ma for Taz, Nora. A lovely cat.

Cool, will check at 30 minutes and then keep checking after that. The batter tasted good, so I think it'll turn out fine.

Also? The KitchenAid Mixer IS GOD.

Am in the waiting room at the chiropractor. Fingers crossed this works. Getting drunk last night helped by relaxing the muscles, but they are tensing up again.

I have no better advice about the cake, but I feel like Tep left out the obvious "The Boy likes carrot(cake)s" aside.

(To be clear, I'm not sniding about mentioning The Boy, but you frequently say "likes carrots" wrt him, so the joke occurred to me...I've over-explaining, aren't I?)

Bev, no, not just you! I find I like looking at younger people with an appreciation of their beauty but no sexual interest, while it's more often a more mature, and aesthetically less "perfect", form that interests me sexually.

Steph, another alternative would be to put the batter into two 8" pans.

Catching up after a loooong time away - so glad to be back!

Not much to say, but ....

Seska, one advantage to taking a bat to uni people would be to give them the experience of dealing with a system that doesn't accommodate the able-bodied.

Barb, perhaps the crazy lady is going through a bad bit of writer's block and is taking it out on someone convenient (and maybe you're not the only one - could she be harassing other people?).

And the discussion of friendship and relationships was interesting.

eta: and Daniel Radcliffe has grown up nicely. Aims, now that Wills is engaged, perhaps you could focus on Daniel.

Tep left out the obvious "The Boy likes carrot(cake)s" aside.

Ahahaha!!! I was so focused on not screwing up the cake that I totally missed it!

Cake is still baking -- at 35 minutes it was lightly brown and had risen appropriately, but the middle was still jiggly. Smells great, though.

Spicy brains and overt geekery (especially old, old, old-school geekery like Lehrer fannishness) push my buttons regardless of the person's age (mostly regardless; I'm pretty sure that anyone younger than Radcliffe or old enough to remind me of my grandfather at the end of his life would be a no-go, no matter how spicy and geeky).

Seriously, I never saw Radcliffe as anything but a sweet kid and never felt anything but a motherly, "Such a nice boy!" until that clip. It was the having stayed up all night to memorize it and, when he lost his place, having to go all the way back to the beginning of the verse to pick up the thread again that did it.