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[labellementeuse]

New plan: drop out of university to become cake baker and pastry chef. Become world famous without this cruddy learning thing.

So give me a recipe to try tomorrow, because otherwise I have to go buy buttermilk or cream cheese to try a pound cake recipe and they look kind of pricey (LOTS of eggs, see sixth_light I told you they'd be useful, and several cups of sugar we may not actually have, I told you so again...) Or red velvet cake looks kind of cool...

*sulk* I want cake now. But cool things I found out this evening: so I never knew what bundt cake was (or pound cake, come to think of it) until this evening. But! Bundt cake is apparently just cake cooked in spiral tins like this one. And pound cake is a yellow cake, name coming from the fact that it was originally cooked with a poung each of butter, flour, sugar and eggs.

I find this all fascinating. Oh, America, you are so culturally ubiquitous in the bad way.

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[kuril.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll reduce my figure to a quarter of dry weight ;-) They're pretty nasty and exactly as you described. They used to have these fudge-mint pound cakes that actually had some moisture, but those are long gone now. To make the cake worse, they stick in a dissicating pouch. For preservation, I guess.

For formal get-togethers I can excuse food going to waste for the reasons you specified. But when everyone is given a box irregardless of the environment and calorie requirements for the job, it's just disgustingly wasteful. We eat out of the snackbar, because it is there, and it has food that tastes much better (like Korean ramen bowls). Half or more of 5 days worth go straight to the dumpster or sorted and stashed into a drawr for easy picking next exercise. We do trade quite a bit but that can only go so far when there are only two different "menus".

My favorite cake is some sort of German Chocolate Cake. It is chocolate, has some sort of caramel layer, a bit of nuts,... Haven't had it in a long time though. They stopped serving it at the dining hall. Now all they have is carrot cake and peacan pie.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Ew! A dessicating pouch? In cake? What are they thinking? *shakes head in bemusement*

Oh, in the situation you describe that's just dumb, especially if people are just eating elsewhere. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Pecan pie, I've never had pecan pie. :P (It's not a big NZ thing. We have a half-American friend who has Thanksgiving parties but there' usually only pumpkin pie instead of pecan...)