I've had a hard time thinking of topics to write about. My muse is faltering, and at some point the daily dramas of the frozen north aren't even interesting to me anymore. Inspiration, however, has perhaps struck
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I have that book! I bought the first edition when Time magazine wrote up a glowing review of it. :-) I love her intro especially. And there's one cake with a spun-sugar cage that started my obsession with candied violets. I once spent an entire day in May picking violets and painting them with egg whites and sugar because of this book. I tried lilacs, too, but violets worked much better.
Isn't it a wonderful book? I know exactly the cake you're talking about. Now I'll have to try the candied violets! Hopefully the poor little things will still come up after our horrid winter...
YAY! Glad to see you're excited and posting again when you can with something pretty neat here. I too occasionally now delve into cake making and so far have done the vanilla cake (Standard) but also the Marble Cake which you might want to try as it's a bit more difficult than it looks (least I found so). Good luck and as Hunni from the anime Ouran High School Host Club would say:
I'm still a cake rookie too, but it's turning out to be really fun. Marble cake you say? Hmmm... challenge is becoming my new friend in the kitchen. :D
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Loves you, Sonia :)
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I believe a work out plan may be in order, otherwise I'm going to need a new wardrobe... lol
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"CAKEY! CAKEY! CAKEY!"
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CAKEY!!!!!!!!!
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