another bake sale
Apr. 18th, 2008 01:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thejunipertreeWhat is wrong with me that I keep volunteering to make large quantities of food for people?
Tired Tara is tired.
Currently in my kitchen, I have roughly four dozen peppermint chocolate chip cookies, a dozen dark chocolate cupcakes with chocolate ganache glaze, two halves of a dark chocolate bundt cake with powdered sugar on top, and three bowls of bread dough a-rising to be baked tomorrow night.
One of those goddamned cupcakes is calling my name with a sweet siren song of "You want to eat me! You'll never get to sleep anytime soon if you do, but you should eat me because my glaze is imperfect and there is an even number of me and my brethren! And you know your OCD just will not allow that to stand! You hate even numbers!" It doesn't help that I didn't eat any dinner because as soon as I came home it was time for CUPCAKE MAKING A-HOY! Oh, and getting the Engineer caught up on season 3 Battlestar Galactica, so he can start watching season 4 with me and I can stop kicking him out of my apartment on Friday nights to watch it by myself.
At the tail end of May? I volunteered to make spaghetti sauce for fifty. Oy.
This bake sale thing is on Saturday and I will be working the table from open to close, which is to say: from STUPID O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING until early afternoon.
Check me out, being a good Mason girlfriend. :D
Tired Tara is tired.
Currently in my kitchen, I have roughly four dozen peppermint chocolate chip cookies, a dozen dark chocolate cupcakes with chocolate ganache glaze, two halves of a dark chocolate bundt cake with powdered sugar on top, and three bowls of bread dough a-rising to be baked tomorrow night.
One of those goddamned cupcakes is calling my name with a sweet siren song of "You want to eat me! You'll never get to sleep anytime soon if you do, but you should eat me because my glaze is imperfect and there is an even number of me and my brethren! And you know your OCD just will not allow that to stand! You hate even numbers!" It doesn't help that I didn't eat any dinner because as soon as I came home it was time for CUPCAKE MAKING A-HOY! Oh, and getting the Engineer caught up on season 3 Battlestar Galactica, so he can start watching season 4 with me and I can stop kicking him out of my apartment on Friday nights to watch it by myself.
At the tail end of May? I volunteered to make spaghetti sauce for fifty. Oy.
This bake sale thing is on Saturday and I will be working the table from open to close, which is to say: from STUPID O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING until early afternoon.
Check me out, being a good Mason girlfriend. :D
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Date: 2008-04-18 03:32 pm (UTC)It's not as fluid as regular cooking and there's less wiggle-room with the ingredients and cooking methods. And I'm far too impatient to make things pretty. The cupcakes went well because it was just spooning the ganache onto them and kind of pushing it around to the edges of the cake paper. But, if it were actual icing/frosting? God help me.
The stuff I made for the last bakesale, I was not all that happy with. Especially the apple tea cake. I feel sorry for whoever bought that misbegotten baked monstrosity. I didn't put baking powder in it. :/
Whoever it was, they never came forward to curse my name.
Cookies, however, I can rock the motherfucking house with. Providing I don't get too uppity while making them.
Wherefore art thy bakesale not Sunday?
Date: 2008-04-18 06:51 pm (UTC)Someone on my f'list posted a recipe for bacon chocolate chip cookies a while back, I still haven't worked up the
couragebacon to make them.