Kat, I do get my chocolate cream cold before whipping. I think you have to, physics wise, to get it nice and light. No freezing, though.
eta: Lee, could you? I'd be ever so grateful.
Also, you can tell it's not gonna have a happy ending when the main guy's all bumpy.
Tara ,'First Date'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Mar 30, 2012 6:45:05 pm PDT #28956 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Burrell - Mar 30, 2012 6:45:45 pm PDT #28957 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Love the shirt dress but I fear I'd fall right between the medium and the large. phooey. Pretty sure my waist is bigger than 28 inches.
Oh my gosh, I want a bowl of ganache right now. nom!
Amy - Mar 30, 2012 6:46:28 pm PDT #28958 of 30001
Because books.
I didn't drink! But I ... ate chocolate?
I need an intervention.
Kat, you are exactly like me. When I did Ben's Harry Potter party, I was up until 2 a.m. the night before, PAINTING HOUSE FLAGS on pillowcases to hang in the living room. I cut out about fifty white candles from poster board, colored the flame yellow, and hung them from the beams in our living room with fishing line, so it would look like they were floating.
Ben was five. All he wanted was a pair of glasses and a lightning bolt tattoo. I was insane.
Burrell - Mar 30, 2012 6:47:35 pm PDT #28959 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I'm the bad party mom. My kids are lucky if there's a cake on the table and the laundry has been put away before the guests arrive.
Kat - Mar 30, 2012 6:49:12 pm PDT #28960 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Amy, our house is a mess. And I'm just poor enough to have considered a taco truck (there WILL be a bouncer though).
We will have yummy cupcakes though.
Lee - Mar 30, 2012 6:49:25 pm PDT #28961 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Lee, could you? I'd be ever so grateful.
Sure! I've even started already!
§ ita § - Mar 30, 2012 6:59:32 pm PDT #28962 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
there WILL be a bouncer though
Jesus, what kind of kids do Noah and Grace hang out with?
Burrell - Mar 30, 2012 7:05:38 pm PDT #28963 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Not that kind of bouncer, ita, a bouncy house.
Kat - Mar 30, 2012 7:11:54 pm PDT #28964 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Well, two kids are the children of an LAPD internal affairs type.
Kat - Mar 30, 2012 7:24:20 pm PDT #28965 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Ganache is whipped and cupcakes are done. Ganache is my one true frosting.
I made 5 dozen cupcakes. They are all the chocolate CI ones, with the sour cream... the super dense crumb ones. Four dozen are frosted with buttercream.
The last dozen? I wanted to make a whipped whiskey frosting but Katie said no. So I did a center fill with buttercream and then frosted with ganache. yum yum yum.