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Yesterday was LB's birthday, so I made him a Triple-Layer Blueberry Lemon Cake. Of course it's not as pretty as in the recipe, but it tasted quite good.( Collapse ) He invited 12 people for fondue and they all liked it :) And I still have self-made lemon curd left over, yum. And over a third of the cake - good thing we like our neighbours *g*
Basically all I did yesterday was go grocery shopping, bake, cook, and clean up. And eat, of course, and we played two rounds of werewolf.

Yesterday was also Coming Out Day. I came out as bi to my mom about a year and a half ago, spontaneously, it was nerve-wracking but ok. I still haven't told my dad because he has very conservative views in that regard (though I think he might be getting better? maybe? at least he says less stupid stuff when I can hear it now, but maybe just because I'm not discussing it with him anymore), but recently mom told LB and me that we can love whoever we want at the dinner table and dad didn't say anything, so I think it wouldn't be bad.

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I made a cake today for my parents's anniversay. A 20x16x13 cm cake, with 14 eggs, 900g butter, 1 kg sugar, and other stuff. Rich Chocolate Cake with Raspberry Buttercream, and you could underline the "rich" twice. I couldn't even finish half a slice, maybe because I tasted so much during baking, and half a slice was enough for dinner for the rest of my family. But it looked very pretty! The chocolate cake wasn't as dark as in the photographs there, but it tasted delicious. I hadn't thought that a cake could taste that decadent. Mum already gave some to the neighbours and I'm still not sure how we'll eat it all...

In other news, I finally signed up for a driving license course, but I still haven't even started preparing for this university semester. (Other than sending the application for the additional course program I want to do, which was harder than I thought - I forgot how difficult motivation letters are!) Stop being so lazy, self. At least I made cake?

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About two weeks ago I made my first cupcakes: Chocolate Birthday Cupcakes with Nutella Cloud Frosting. They were delicious and not even that difficult to make (putting the frosting on top was very messy, but I did not mind cleaning up all the chocolate that escaped from the bag at all.)

This weekend I made another batch, Chocolate Cupcakes with Raspberry Buttercream Frosting. The frosting was much too sweet even though I had reduced the amount of sugar almost by half, but they were good and looked very cute with the colourful sprinkles. And I found out that cupcakes are the perfect food for studying: one small cupcake after each major chapter is a good reward to look forward to. I have to remember that for my next exams.
Do you have any favorite cupcake recipes?

In other news, my debate partner and I placed a close 4th in our club's internal tournament, and afterwards we talked in Russian. Success!
At the moment I'm between panic phases because of the exams on Wednesday. But I'm out of cupcakes :(

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...even if I´m not that good at it yet. So.
About a week ago ribbon_purple posted photographs of cakes she had invented herself which is ridiculously awesome. The second one looked especially good and I asked for the recipe. Which I got, because she is great. Then, after I figured out the measurements, I tried baking today. And it was... an adventure.
First of all, we didn´t have any baking soda. We ALWAYS have baking soda. Just not when I need it. So I went to my neighbours and promised them a large piece of cake for their last baking soda. (That was the... third? fourth? time I gave them cake for ingredients. Why can´t the kitchen be more organized? On the other hand, I like the feedback.)
Then it turned out my father needed the oven for lunch = chicken. Fortunately it turned out that the chicken fit into the microwave.
By the way, the only brown sugar we had was rock candy/candy sugar (not even dictionaries are sure what the correct translation for big sugar lumps is). Naive as I am, I thought that it would make no difference. Well, the cake is a bit crunchier, what with all the tiny crystals.
The two round baking pans we have aren´t exactly the same size. I just put more icing and coconut on top, you can hardly see it.
And I guess that Americans are used to much, much sweeter cakes than I am because I didn´t even use half the amount of sugar recommended and it was still very sweet for me.
Enough talk, I present: the cake.



ribbon_purple called it a "Banana Cake with Sour Cream Coconut Icing", I´ll just call it "Banana Cake (Sweet Coconut Icing)" in my mind since I couldn´t taste the Sour Cream. What we´ll actually call it is "the other banana cake". The other and always first one is the one with apricot jam, chocolate pudding and chocolat icing on top. Mmmm.



As you can see, it´s not as nice to look at as the original, but I found that enough coconut on top can disguise a lot.
Mmmm, cake.
(My parents liked it, too. I´m still waiting what the neighbours will say.)

212 as last week´s average. And only because of Sunday. And only because stupid me had to read all the Iowa-stories again. I´m afraid of November 12th.

On the other hand, I made cake again.

It´s a chocolate-raspberry cake and the first time I tried this recipe (naturally I had to add many notes). The cake was quite good, even though it won´t become one of my favourites. But looking through our recipe map I found not enough cake recipes - that needs to be corrected.

The white stuff on top isn´t coco, it´s white chocolate crumbles.

LET´S HAVE CAKE!
(That´s supposed to be my brother´s birthday cake, or a proxy, since he is in New Zealand. He got a chocolate cake instead. And yes, of course I made this one myself!

Today I went to my first lectures and started to read the (many many and very thick) books and found my lecture hall in the (extremely large) university and I didnt get bored (except of a tiny little bit while waiting) and I got the book I needed from the library (it was the next to last copy) and then I got home and had CAKE and life is great!
Tomorrow I have a lecture at 8:30 which is admittedly not ideal but not too bad, either.
AND I wrote drabbles about university!, about real stuff, I didn´t even have to invent anything. (In German, though.) I think I´ll do a small series.

YAY! MORE CAKE!

It´s Linzerschnitte! Best translated as... Linzer slice? You can preserve it one week, easily. And it was great. Is great - we still have some.