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Or at least in terms of web links it is. Question: if blog is short for web log, can I use blinks for a collection of web links? Would it catch on? Can I be the next Al Gore?
Never mind.
Taking a break from cat posts and book reviews, here’s the sites and stories that have caught my eye in June.
To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and give the office a much-needed morale boost, the editorial department at my company decided to reenact our winter food fete with a … um … St. Patrick’s Day food fete.
I had grand plans for Guinness cupcakes or something like that, but ran out of time. So I created Pots O’Gold.
Remember the cakes of yesteryear? The pink and white fondant fantasy? The butterfly bouquet basket? The world’s largst beach towels on the world’s tiniest island? Yeah, those were good times. This is not a post about those types of cakes.
Making the mistake twice as bad
My first sheet cake is the saddest cake I’ve ever made. I don’t normally add salt to buttercream, but I wouldn’t be surprised if some tears fell into the mixer. The cake was for Nicole. She works with me as an assistant editor and has decided to leave our happy cube farm for the sea-swept winds at Margate to pursue her writing dreams. I can’t blame her – in fact, I envy her ability to chuck the 9-to-5 drudgery – but I will miss her terribly.
To give her a proper send-off, I put together a pizza goodbye lunch. Of course, the lunch required a cake for dessert. And the number of people invited meant a sheet cake was a better idea than some layered or tiered monstrosity. Nicole likes pink so I used rose coloring to create hot pink roses. I wanted the cake to have something unique to Nicole or her almost-former job, hence the proofreader marks.
I must remember that this pink darkens considerably from when it’s first mixed. I planned on some darker roses and then some marbled roses. The marbling never really took and by this morning, everything’s pretty much the same color. In fact, some of the roses may glow in the dark. Read the rest of this entry »
The classes may have ended, but the cake fun never does. Here are the post-class cakes.
First up, the cake for Penny’s birthday.
