SpiderFarmer

We followed a recipe from Alton Brown that we adapted a tiny bit, mostly because I didn’t have pretzel salt on hand. But the recipe was easy enough that Igor got to do a whole lot of the actual recipe.  He didn’t get to do the boiling part, and he didn’t get to put the [...]

Prep Time: 25 min, Inactive Prep Time: 6 hr 0 min, Cook Time: 15 min,
Serves 6

Ingredients

1 pound fresh chicken livers, cleaned
1 cup milk (aprox)
4 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces
1 cup chopped yellow onions
2 teaspoons minced garlic
2 tablespoons green peppercorns, drained
2 bay leaves
1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme leaves
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon tarragon
1/8 teaspoon cardamom
1/8 [...]

Well, I didn’t get a picture of the absolutely finished cake, because of cake vandals but here’s pictures of the BeeDay cake as it neared completion:

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The recipe was a butter chai spice cake with vanilla cream [...]

So, in prep for the Bee-Day cake, I was practicing basketweave and grass techniques with buttercream icing.
Well, you can’t frost nothingness (sorry sweet-toothed existentialists), so I made cupcakes.  Amaretto spice cupcakes with hazelnut creamcheese icing, to be exact.  Yum.  The groovy thing about making cupcakes to practice is that it’s easy to give away cupcakes.  [...]

So, today’s cake was an orange spice cake with buttercream roses and rosettes.
The roses looked way better before I stupidly put the cake cover on the top without realizing that the cake was tall enough that the roses would hit the cover.  So…I had to sort of poof the roses up a little with a [...]