Do you come to this bar often?

[pbray]

Today is another 12+ hour work day, but at least the second shift can be done at home, so there's no one to care if I have a glass of red wine next to the laptop.

Food Network cake challenge is on in the background-- interesting but I've never seen a cake on one of these shows that made me think "Yum, I wish I could have a piece." And isn't that the point of cake?

Time to go turn the crank. With luck, only another couple of nights left in the quarter close.

Comments

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

Yay! Someone else who wants to know what the cake TASTES like.

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

I had Red Velvet cake once. The person who made it said it took two whole bottles of McCormick red food coloring. I'm not sure why. I mean, I know why, it was to make it dark red, I'm just not sure why that was a consumation devoutly to be wished.

I have a couple of co-workers who make really good cakes. Every once in a while, they actually make them without nuts so that I can have some. For a while, one of them was making cakes for our monthly staff meetings. She handed me a piece of a wonderful-looking chocolate confection, with Hershey's Miniatures decorating the frosting (hey, the woman understands "chocolate" is the important word!) and I had to say, "No thank you, I'm allergic to almonds." The following month, that wonderful woman made a carrot cake *without walnuts*! It's the last time I had carrot cake, which I used to love...

[dynastic-queen.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have minded having a piece of the cake that looked like a party dress on a dress stand. But the rest of them, after a couple of years of challenges... you're right. And some of them have been downright UNappetizing.