While I don't like the hero much, Eric van Lustbader's Nicholas Linnear series of books are great fun! He writes the most wonderful Bad Girls. ;)
And so we have Shisei Omuke, from White Ninja (no, no, it doesn't mean Caucasian ninja - though lol... that was the initial conclusion I jumped to)!
Oreo cheesecake, green tea oreo, lemon cranberry walnut, poppyseed blondie, chocolate ginger caramel, strawberries and cream with walnut
Basic Tender / Chewy Cookie!
300g cake flour
100g salted butter (room temp)
100g caster sugar (150 for crispier version)
30g mascarpone
1 egg (whole… too lazy to separate the yolk lol)
Vanilla essence
- Cream butter and mascarpone
- Add vanilla essence, cream some more
- Add sugar, beat until fluffy
- Add egg, beat again
- Beat in flour (I find it works best if I beat it in in 2 to 3 parts, rather than all at once)
- Dump in fridge for 1 hour or so
- Preheat oven to 150-60C
- Make (large) truffle-sized balls
- Plop balls about 2 inches apart
- Bake for 20-30 minutes
>.> This recipe is less chatty than usual because really, it's my notes to myself that became a post. XD
Mascarpone can be replaced with 50g brown or dark brown sugar. Essentially, the mascarpone acts as a (more) hydrophilic element (than just plain white sugar) in the recipe. So if you wanna take that out, you gotta replace it with something else hydrophilic! When using 50g brown sugar, I also use 1 tsp double action baking powder.
Funny post by Khoi Vinh! The post itself isn't particularly good (though funny), but the comments section is very long, and has some real gems.
Since I'm now working on enterprise software, it's suddenly really, really easy to tell from the comments, who's actually been there and done that, too.
The dynamics of power when it comes to the users vs purchasers of enterprise software was one of the hardest things for me to adjust to initially, when coming from B2C agencyland, as it were.
These two comments really stood out for me, but if you bother to trawl through the whole lot, there are a couple more good ones. :)
If you've worked on enterprise software at all, your head will be nodding and nodding like one of those bobbly dogs...
After years of resisting PWE's blandishments, and never, ever using real money to buy fashion, I have been seduced by Tera instead.
Behold, the first digital fashion thingie I have *ever* used my Real Moneh for. And out of a loot box to boot lol.
Undone by cats. =O.o=
Mew!
I think I'm beginning to get the hang of this icing thing...
AKA if at first you don't succeed, try something easier. XD
This was only a partial success though. And by partial, I mean... 10%. >.>
See, from sheer luck, I didn't have that much batter left in the last one. Plus I didn't stuff it with salted caramel.
As a result, that's the only kitteh with a nice, smooth surface. XD
So! Only fill the cups to half AT MOST for a nice smooth surface. And resist the urge to stuff the kitteh or the stuffing may leak, and result in very mutant kittehs.
That whole plate in the background? Mutant kittehs.
But hey, at least now I know what NOT to do!
SCIENCE!!!!