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Title: Gardening, Knitting, Baking and Making Thread
Post by: xxxLinda on June 09, 2009, 02:33:34 PM: Anyone interested?
Title: Re: Gardening, Knitting, Baking and Making Thread
Post by: xxxLinda on June 09, 2009, 02:37:46 PM: a bit of crochet perhaps?
Title: Re: Gardening, Knitting, Baking and Making Thread
Post by: xxxLinda on June 09, 2009, 02:50:34 PM: How about sewing?
Title: Re: Gardening, Knitting, Baking and Making Thread
Post by: xxxLinda on June 09, 2009, 02:55:08 PM: or gardening? you just shove it in a pot and water it?
Title: Re: Gardening, Knitting, Baking and Making Thread
Post by: xxxLinda on June 09, 2009, 03:05:34 PM: How about a :Chocolate Guinness Cake

For the cake:
Butter for pan
1 cup Guinness stout
10 tablespoons (1 stick plus 2 tablespoons) unsalted butter
3/8 cup unsweetened cocoa
2 cups superfine sugar
3/8 cup sour cream
2 large eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/2 teaspoons baking soda

For the topping:
1 1/4 cups confectioners' sugar
8 ounces cream cheese at room temperature
1/2 cup heavy cream.

1. For the cake: heat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9-inch springform pan and line with parchment paper. In a large saucepan, combine Guinness and butter. Place over medium-low heat until butter melts, then remove from heat. Add cocoa and superfine sugar, and whisk to blend.

2. In a small bowl, combine sour cream, eggs and vanilla; mix well. Add to Guinness mixture. Add flour and baking soda, and whisk again until smooth. Pour into buttered pan, and bake until risen and firm, 45 minutes to one hour. Place pan on a wire rack and cool completely in pan.

3. For the topping: Using a food processor or by hand, mix confectioners' sugar to break up lumps. Add cream cheese and blend until smooth. Add heavy cream, and mix until smooth and spreadable.

4. Remove cake from pan and place on a platter or cake stand. Ice top of cake only, so that it resembles a frothy pint of Guinness.

Yield: One 9-inch cake (12 servings).

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Title: Re: Gardening, Knitting, Baking and Making Thread
Post by: xxxLinda on June 09, 2009, 03:16:13 PM: You'll need a gorgeous green cake stand to go with it perhaps:
Title: Re: Gardening, Knitting, Baking and Making Thread
Post by: xxxLinda on June 09, 2009, 03:21:43 PM: make and grow and share beautiful stuff:
Title: Re: Gardening, Knitting, Baking and Making Thread
Post by: 24KT on June 09, 2009, 11:06:23 PM: Quote from: xxxLinda on June 09, 2009, 02:33:34 PM
Anyone interested?

Linda, that opening post has me salivating. I have quite the sweet tooth.
I don't know about baking them, ...but I sure do like eating them. :P
Title: Re: Gardening, Knitting, Baking and Making Thread
Post by: ~flower~ on June 10, 2009, 11:46:04 AM: "Gardening, Knitting, Baking and Making Thread"

Making what? love? :)
Title: Re: Gardening, Knitting, Baking and Making Thread
Post by: Original Sin on June 10, 2009, 03:42:13 PM: I am going to try the Guinness Cake recipe this weekend :P :P
Title: Re: Gardening, Knitting, Baking and Making Thread
Post by: Migs on June 10, 2009, 04:52:06 PM: i'll skip it
Title: Re: Gardening, Knitting, Baking and Making Thread
Post by: xxxLinda on June 11, 2009, 11:02:34 AM: Obviously I'd already figured out that there are very few (if any) real women on this webchatsiteforum, so thought I'd do a lovely nice pretty thread to check out that theory and perhaps piss everyone else off.

forget it okay, doubt you found it cute or funny or even ironic.

xxxetc

Going out back into the garden to plant out my tomato babies (that's about 50 bend-overs) and I have mini chocolate cup cakes in the oven. Think I'll give the gym a miss.
Title: Re: Gardening, Knitting, Baking and Making Thread
Post by: powerpack on June 11, 2009, 11:17:11 AM: I wonder how long this thread is gonna stay friendly ???
Title: Re: Gardening, Knitting, Baking and Making Thread
Post by: xxxLinda on June 11, 2009, 11:19:37 AM: okay, forget the crochet and the knitting and the cooking and baking, I'll do it...

How about a bit of twitching? (that's bird watching, look it up... & get your binoculars out
Title: Re: Gardening, Knitting, Baking and Making Thread
Post by: Princess L on June 11, 2009, 02:41:26 PM: I used to bake a lot. Not anymore.
I can sew, but don't.
Gardening - I'll plant it,water it and harvest it. That's it. If the weeds take over, so be it.
Knitting - forget it.
Birds - I feed and water them and enjoy watching them. I get quite a few varieties.

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