Friday...finally!

[oneslybookworm]

Oh glory be, it's Friday!  I feel like this week has gone by SO slowly!  What all are you up to?  Any special plans for your weekend?

I'm going to be heading to a friend's to go wedding dress shopping for her wedding.  I'm super excited to spend some time with her!

QOTD:  If you could redo your wedding/are getting married soon, what flavor cake would you go with?

[irish]

This weekend there's plenty of rugby to be watched! Not a lot else planned at the moment.

QOTD: if we were to do it again I'd keep the same flavour - chocolate biscuit cake, covered in white fondant icing!

[oneslybookworm]

Feb 21, 2014 10:51:37 GMT -5 irish said:

This weekend there's plenty of rugby to be watched! Not a lot else planned at the moment.

QOTD: if we were to do it again I'd keep the same flavour - chocolate biscuit cake, covered in white fondant icing!

irish - what is biscuit cake?

[irish]

Feb 21, 2014 11:19:27 GMT -5 oneslybookworm said:

irish - what is biscuit cake?

It is divine!! Sinfully so.... And it's "chocolate biscuit cake"
Here's a great recipe for it : m.supervalu.ie/recipe/kevins-chocolate-biscuit-cake/?ptf=8
(And when it says 8 portions you would probably have enough for 20+ people!!)

I'm doing it for dd2's christening cake....

[doctoranda]

Hi everyone!

It was a busy day because I needed to make sure the house is clean for the cat sitter, I had a meeting and I had to finish up some work too. Tomorrow we're going to Paris for 6 days. Wooooohoo! I wanted to paint my nails too and I decided to put a nude color with rose gold glitter particles instead of dark dark red. I regret it a bit but at least you don't see it if it chips (it's always hard to keep nails nice when traveling picking up bags etc.) but perhaps it's just not as classy.

QOTD: I don't know I would probably have the same again (we had 3 flavors in one cake: 1 layer champagne-green apple-lime, 1 layer charlotte, 1 layer forest fruit & creme de cassis.) But I would love to go tasting again!

[crimsonandclover]

Today was really stressful because a translation I did was completely miscalculated. I was given a deadline of 11 hours and,based on my previous experience with this agency, figured I'd have plenty of time to do the translation even though we had visitors in the afternoon. I was then really stressed tried to get it done, and when I finally completed it (with 2 hours to go, so it wasn't *that* tight), I saw they had seen their mistake and given me an extra 52 hours. 52 HOURS!!! So I was stressed for nothing. The good news is I get almost 200 euros more than I had expected.

On Sunday DH's family is coming over for a birthday party, so that's going to be more stress. I love his brothers and SILs, but I really, really don't feel like putting up with MIL right now. She's been getting jabs in again lately and I just can't handle them when I'm so stressed.

QOTD: In Germany a family member made a beautiful Black Forest cherry cake. I don't like cherries, so I'd choose a different one, maybe just put raspberries instead of cherries in it? And in the US we had pies, and I wouldn't change that

[dorothyinAus]

This weekend is for housecleaning and watching the end of the Olympics.  I am really going to miss the excitement (and the not having to think about what to watch on tv. )  Also, I need to do some laundry and I'm trying to decide if I want to wrestle with the comforter and comforter cover.

QOTD:  My wedding cake was a King Cake, and I really like that because it's different.  But my MIL offered to make us a wedding cake for our church service (when we get around to having it), and I'm up for any flavor other than fruitcake with fondant.  But if I were picking, it would be a traditional white almond flavor-cake with buttercream frosting both on the cake and between the layers.  Fruit filling in cakes is always a disappointment -- I want the maximum frosting possible.

[mrsukyankee]

I stayed in Oxford after my course and had dinner with an old hockey friend (from 2006).  It was great though I was exhausted getting home at 11:30pm.  The rest of the weekend will be focused on getting a paper done and relaxing (I'm getting a cold).

QOTD: I had vanilla cupcakes. If I had a chance to re-do, I would go with a cake and have three layers - vanilla, chocolate & lemon. A bit of something for everyone!

[oneslybookworm]

Feb 21, 2014 21:12:14 GMT -5 dorothyinAus said:

This weekend is for housecleaning and watching the end of the Olympics.  I am really going to miss the excitement (and the not having to think about what to watch on tv. )  Also, I need to do some laundry and I'm trying to decide if I want to wrestle with the comforter and comforter cover.

QOTD:  My wedding cake was a King Cake, and I really like that because it's different.  But my MIL offered to make us a wedding cake for our church service (when we get around to having it), and I'm up for any flavor other than fruitcake with fondant.  But if I were picking, it would be a traditional white almond flavor-cake with buttercream frosting both on the cake and between the layers.  Fruit filling in cakes is always a disappointment -- I want the maximum frosting possible.

That's because cake is merely a vehicle for more frosting, of course!

[dorothyinAus]

Feb 23, 2014 14:09:42 GMT -5 oneslybookworm said:

That's because cake is merely a vehicle for more frosting, of course!

That's my theory.  I say it's like the people who carefully fill up each well of their waffle with syrup -- the waffle is merely a syrup delivery device.  Cake is merely a frosting delivery device.  Which, of course does not mean it can be cardboard or styrofoam, it needs to not conflict with the frosting, but instead compliment it, the waffles do with syrup (though to be completely honest, I don't like syrup on my waffles).