TOD: Favorite cakesIs a babka a cake? If so, that's a favorite. To me, it looks and tastes like a cake. But I gather (according to google) there are many who consider it a bread, not a cake.I really like a nice crumb cake, where the crumb part is as prominent as the cake, especially with coffee.
Must head for the hills.
Quote from: ChasSmith on March 24, 2025, 05:40:54 AMWhile I’m working my way out of this darn cold.Sending feel-better vibes, Chas!
While I’m working my way out of this darn cold.
I won a couple of ribbons at the state fair as a kid for my cakes. I took a third for a butter pecan cake and a second for a Lady Baltimore cake.
TOD: My Mom was born in a chocolate store, so chocolate cake, definitely - both first and favorite.
Monday morning greetings. The slight improvement in my mood took a dive last week as we waited out the aftermath of a friend’s March 14 car accident. She died early yesterday morning. This one is hitting my girlfriend community very hard.
I slept well until the middle of the night, when all hell, the mother of leg pains, broke loose, and I was in agony for some time before things relaxed and I could get back to sleep.
Congratulations DR Freddie.
THREE!
Quote from: Freddie on March 24, 2025, 04:10:10 AMTOD: Favorite cakesIs a babka a cake? If so, that's a favorite. To me, it looks and tastes like a cake. But I gather (according to google) there are many who consider it a bread, not a cake.I really like a nice crumb cake, where the crumb part is as prominent as the cake, especially with coffee.Hmm, maybe not a cake but close enough I think you can claim it
Quote from: Ginny on March 24, 2025, 09:30:20 AMMonday morning greetings. The slight improvement in my mood took a dive last week as we waited out the aftermath of a friend’s March 14 car accident. She died early yesterday morning. This one is hitting my girlfriend community very hard.I'm so sorry, Ginny. Sending condolences on this tragic loss.
TOD:I don’t remember not having cake. An early favorite was German chocolate with its eggy frosting laden with coconut and pecans. I asked for that to be my birthday cake several years running. I also loved Mom’s version of a Black Forest torte. It’s the only version I know of made with a white cake. She would make three layers, cut them in half and then alternate between each layer with brandy-soaked bing cherries or a whipped cream frosting. The whole cake is covered in the frosting and topped with more cherries. Chocolate shavings are spread around the sides of the cake. I made one a couple of times, but it was too hot in Florida and here for it to hold up for very long.
we here at HHW are the first hogs to the trough.
Another controversial yet interestingly expressed online posting about LOVE LIFE, this one from a "JereNYC" on ATC:JereNYC"My reaction to this interview is that if Victoria Clark doesn't like this material, think it works well enough for a limited remount, or doesn't think the rehearsal time allotted for it is enough to do the material, why is she directing it?As part of choosing this title (and the interview says that she is the one who chose it), did she talk to the powers that be at Encores! about this one song that will require more rehearsal time and see what can be worked out about that? Maybe the singers doing it could be brought it a week early? Maybe they could hire a separate madrigal group to do this one number and allow them to devote their entire rehearsal time over the two weeks (or whatever) to this one number. I don't know what the answer is, but I question why the answer seems to automatically have been to cut it."
