mostly I talk about cake--but it's a cake that I'm very passionate about.

[guingel]

Aww, I just love Cary Grant. He's just. . . quality. :) Sexy, too! And funny. Mom is watching Topper, now. It's a fun movie, I like it loads, but I'm not really watching it with her--I'm computing--because the copy she has at the library is hideously colorized. It's very sad. Cary Grant is still awesome, though. And Constance Bennettis very pretty. But I think they wanted ash blond for her hair, and it just looks gray. It's like they didn't color it at all.

I'm very excited, because, in honor of graduation, mom made my absolute favorite kind of cake ever. It's amazing. I got into the finals of a girl scout baking competition with this cake--but then the cake that I was supposed to make for the finals had some sort of problem. It wasn't my fault, either. I was disappointed, because I never win that stuff, and this is such a good cake I felt that I actually had a chance (brownies compete with cookies, juniors do cakes, and seniors do pies, by the way). But I was consoled because we got to eat the cake, which had collapsed. I think we call it Helen's Kuchen, Helen being some relative of my mother's who died before I was born, I think. Maybe it's Küchen? I'm not sure. . . Anyway, we don't have it often, because it's a bit of a trick to make. Not extremely difficult, I managed it at age 10, but it's work. Still. So good. I can't even describe the cake itself, but it's chocolate chip, and there's a whole layer of chocolate chips (like, if it were a two layer cake, it'd be icing, but it's chocolate chips instead. . . only you pour in half of the batter--it's a bundt style pan--and then put in the layer of chips and then pour in the next layer. So the chips are baked in.) And there are crumbs on top, and more chips, and glaze. :D Ooooh, I love it. I've been totally jazzed about it all day. Mom asked us what kind of cake we wanted, and I was like "I don't know, ask Katie". And bless her heart, Katie thought of this cake. :D It smells so good! I'm glad I got Katie a good birthday present today. Well, ordered it. But it's from England so it prolly won't make it here in time.

Have practised my speech once more. Need to say it to Dad as well. It's hard for me to make myself talk that slowly.

Yeah, that's it. I just wanted to talk about the cake. ::grins::

Comments

brownies compete with cookies

[tiggspanther.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't Brownies compete with, well, brownies?

(And I know someone'll have actually asked that in the past)

Re: brownies compete with cookies

[guingel.livejournal.com]

I've actually never heard that question before--there just aren't that many variations on brownies. There are variations, but nowhere near enough to make competing with them feasible. Whereas there are thousands of different types of cookies and cakes.