I have a couple other pictures of things I baked, but none of them were very spectacular.
In any case, I had my birthday again. I was much more blase about this one (this twenty-five?) than I was last year, maybe because I didn't plan a large party (yet). I did get much more excited when I received the X-Files box set from my parents. (Thanks parents.)
Not being all that excited does not mean no cake however. My del.icio.us is full of cake recipes, which I never make unless I have a good occasion. And even then, I sort of draw the line at more 3 sticks of butter in a cake. I started out with this, but only used the actual cake part. I had been meaning to make lemon curd at some point (look, I don't know, to go with scones or something) so I adapted this curd recipe for orange curd to put in the middle. And I really was going to go for the 'creamsicle' flavor with vanilla and orange frosting, but I decided that chocolate would work much better. And, thankfully, it did. My roommates compared the cake to an orange Milano cookie, and I thought it tasted like a Chocolate Orange, which I usually get for Christmas.
I *had* to go to a Yankees game the night before my birthday, when I was going to make the cake, so it got bumped up to the day of, between work and going out to dinner with my generous roommates at Franny's, which has been on my to-go-to list for forevvvvver. (Aside: It was very good, although the appetizers were perhaps better than the pizza)
So, the first problem was that we can no longer get the drawer beneath the oven open. I was dismissive of my roommate when he said he couldn't open it, but...it cannot be opened. I was somewhat apprehensive of sticking my hand under the oven (there was something of a mouse problem earlier- it's been a very long month) but it's really truly stuck.
The cake recipe, if you will notice, calls for a 9"x 13" pan. This being inaccessible, and the fact that I refuse to buy two pans of the same shape because really, when am I ever going to need *two* pans...means that I had a square cake 
and a circle cake. 
The circle was smaller, 
so I circled the square somewhat successfully to come up with this.
The curd took forever to cook, and I think I do like lemon curd better, but it came out nice and thick and didn't use 9 eggs, so I liked it. This went between, and I have a lot leftover that I need to find a use for. Maybe cookies?
The frosting didn't use too much butter, as sour cream made up much of the bulk (right now my roommates will yell sour cream?!) and came out nicely.
It's not all that attractive to look at, and needed some time in the fridge to firm up the frosting.
But it was very tasty. As opposed to last year's, which was much prettier, but I realize I didn't like it all that much. But apparently I've made curd two years in a row and added strange dairy products to the frostings both times too.
In any case, I had my birthday again. I was much more blase about this one (this twenty-five?) than I was last year, maybe because I didn't plan a large party (yet). I did get much more excited when I received the X-Files box set from my parents. (Thanks parents.)
Not being all that excited does not mean no cake however. My del.icio.us is full of cake recipes, which I never make unless I have a good occasion. And even then, I sort of draw the line at more 3 sticks of butter in a cake. I started out with this, but only used the actual cake part. I had been meaning to make lemon curd at some point (look, I don't know, to go with scones or something) so I adapted this curd recipe for orange curd to put in the middle. And I really was going to go for the 'creamsicle' flavor with vanilla and orange frosting, but I decided that chocolate would work much better. And, thankfully, it did. My roommates compared the cake to an orange Milano cookie, and I thought it tasted like a Chocolate Orange, which I usually get for Christmas.
I *had* to go to a Yankees game the night before my birthday, when I was going to make the cake, so it got bumped up to the day of, between work and going out to dinner with my generous roommates at Franny's, which has been on my to-go-to list for forevvvvver. (Aside: It was very good, although the appetizers were perhaps better than the pizza)
So, the first problem was that we can no longer get the drawer beneath the oven open. I was dismissive of my roommate when he said he couldn't open it, but...it cannot be opened. I was somewhat apprehensive of sticking my hand under the oven (there was something of a mouse problem earlier- it's been a very long month) but it's really truly stuck.
The cake recipe, if you will notice, calls for a 9"x 13" pan. This being inaccessible, and the fact that I refuse to buy two pans of the same shape because really, when am I ever going to need *two* pans...means that I had a square cake 
and a circle cake. 
The circle was smaller, 
so I circled the square somewhat successfully to come up with this.
The curd took forever to cook, and I think I do like lemon curd better, but it came out nice and thick and didn't use 9 eggs, so I liked it. This went between, and I have a lot leftover that I need to find a use for. Maybe cookies?
The frosting didn't use too much butter, as sour cream made up much of the bulk (right now my roommates will yell sour cream?!) and came out nicely.
It's not all that attractive to look at, and needed some time in the fridge to firm up the frosting.
But it was very tasty. As opposed to last year's, which was much prettier, but I realize I didn't like it all that much. But apparently I've made curd two years in a row and added strange dairy products to the frostings both times too.
posted by birdlime at 4:37 PM
1 Comments:
It's always a little strange to see how the food you eat is made. Especially when you think "oh...that's what that sour cream was for" or "that's how she made a square into a circle..."
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