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-t - Nov 18, 2014 3:16:28 pm PST #10766 of 30000

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I haven't used dental floss on cakes. Lots of other things, but not cakes. Seems like that would be tricky.

Bread knife does the trick. The nice thing about trimming off bits of cake to make it all level and even is you get to eat the trimmings before anyone else gets cake.

Beverly - Nov 18, 2014 3:21:19 pm PST #10767 of 30000

Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Oh, yay, Dillo!

Steph, my cakestand has a slight depression in the center--a lot of presentation plates do. Check and see if yours does. Then you put the bottom layer top side down, dome in the depression, with the flat bottom up. Frost, and place the upper layer flat bottom-side down, and frost the dome on top. I've never trimmed a layer to flatten it.

Sue - Nov 18, 2014 3:23:11 pm PST #10768 of 30000

hip deep in pie

I use a bread knife to even cakes out too.

Connie Neil - Nov 18, 2014 3:24:31 pm PST #10769 of 30000

brillig

It is even cold here! 58F right now and it is forecast for 54F overnight!!

We probably won't see those temperatures for a high until late March. I'm getting giddy over the 45 we're supposed to see this weekend.

Hil R. - Nov 18, 2014 3:27:16 pm PST #10770 of 30000

Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

It's 16 degrees here. I'm at trivia now, and kind of dreading going home, because it'll probably be about 50 inside there.

brenda m - Nov 18, 2014 3:41:34 pm PST #10771 of 30000

If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Put the top layer on upside down. Then you have a flat surface on top and some small gaps around the middle to fill with frosting.

SuziQ - Nov 18, 2014 3:42:21 pm PST #10772 of 30000

Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

I use a bread knife to even cakes out too.

It helps if you chill the cake - preferrably by freezing but chilling in the fridge works too.

I finally bought a special cake leveling tool - inexpensive and, DANG, such a great single purpose tool.

sarameg - Nov 18, 2014 3:50:17 pm PST #10773 of 30000

Towel froze in 5 minute walk home from Y. Hair didn't, but only because I was wearing: sweatshirt hood, alpaca scarf, velvet hat, hood on my down parka.

Bridge of my nose was numb and I felt like a clam, peering out between the brim of the hat and the scarf.

Anne W. - Nov 18, 2014 3:59:49 pm PST #10774 of 30000

The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Agreed with the bread knife plus chilling technique.

I'm such a pessimist that I'm just braced for the grand jury decision in Ferguson.

Yeah, some people around here are acting like World War Z is right around the corner. Schools in North County have been sending kids home with homework packets in the event they have to close schools for a few days.

aurelia - Nov 18, 2014 4:09:30 pm PST #10775 of 30000

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

What's with today today?

That is an excellent question. It's been quite the Monday of a Tuesday.

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