Here's to taking a leap!
Feb. 29th, 2012 11:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lillbet1.) Raining today. Feeling sort of calm and content. Heading out for a burger and a shake in a bit. Maybe hit up Redbox tonight for Drive and 50/50. Or getting a swimsuit- Old Navy is stocking swimwear now and it's CUTE. All retro 'n' stuff.
2.) Sent my landlady a more "me" thank you because my initial email was all SRS BSNS and she reiterated that she'll miss me. :)
3.) A younger cousin of mine is getting married in late summer. He and his fiance are fun- might go down there one more time before I go. I hope they still invite me to the wedding, because I'll HAPPILY fly, or drive, back for it. Don't want to miss out, but I definitely won't stay another *counts on fingers* 3-4 months just for that. Seems like there is always something, yes?
4.) Made red velvet cupcakes for the blog I'm doing withroh_wyn and I think folks were a little turned off by the frosting- boiled frosting rather than cream cheese. And I didn't boil the milk and flour long enough, so I had to add some things and in the end I had some leftovers. Ah well. They'll make good cakepops with chocolate frosting and chocolate couverture.
5.) Sun is starting to come out, so it feels more like this:
2.) Sent my landlady a more "me" thank you because my initial email was all SRS BSNS and she reiterated that she'll miss me. :)
3.) A younger cousin of mine is getting married in late summer. He and his fiance are fun- might go down there one more time before I go. I hope they still invite me to the wedding, because I'll HAPPILY fly, or drive, back for it. Don't want to miss out, but I definitely won't stay another *counts on fingers* 3-4 months just for that. Seems like there is always something, yes?
4.) Made red velvet cupcakes for the blog I'm doing with
roh_wyn and I think folks were a little turned off by the frosting- boiled frosting rather than cream cheese. And I didn't boil the milk and flour long enough, so I had to add some things and in the end I had some leftovers. Ah well. They'll make good cakepops with chocolate frosting and chocolate couverture.5.) Sun is starting to come out, so it feels more like this:
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Date: 2012-02-29 10:10 pm (UTC)I'm just sorting through all the pics I took, and I'll probably post to Tumblr tonight or tomorrow.
Btw, since you're going to be so busy in the next month, do you want to just skip March and do a two-fer in the summer some time?
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Date: 2012-02-29 11:17 pm (UTC)The trick, which I only figured out the first time I made it, is to boil the milk and flour to the right consistency. My problem was that I compounded that badness by not letting the butter soften beforehand and tossing it in the microwave to defrost. Can't do that with butter. Half of it turns into dribble and that's bad for the whole thing.
Took the leftover cakes and icing and made cake balls. And they're actually pretty good. The guy at the grocery store suggested the fruit dip chocolate stuff and it worked pretty well, just need twice as much as they give you in those lil' cups, I think. Dipping the rest in the blue, red, or green couverture I bought last year at SLT.
Posting tonight too. Yay!
And no, I definitely want to bake in March and will bake in April too before I go. Gotta use up the 2lbs. of butter I've accumulated. :)