Birthday Greetings

[sinkwriter]

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the wonderful marvelous talented lovely bardsmaid!

I hope you are having a beautiful day.

:)

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[bardsmaid.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much. I spent a bunch of time... um... sucked into reading something... well, you know. [icon of embarrassment needed here]

Of course, part of this was because I tweaked my back somehow and have been spending a lot of time in one spot, and off my feet. We were supposed to go over to Aaron and Jenny's for dinner, but then she ended up not feeling well, which ended her plan to make her amazing fried chicken. (This was actually for the best since I probably wouldn't have been comfortable driving or sitting anyway.) However, the dinner will be rescheduled and in the meantime, Ben made me a little cake last night from the old classic 1-2-3-4 cake recipe, which, incidentally, makes the best dough to lick out of a mixing bowl EVER. Ben's cake-fu is very strong, and it turned out to be just perfect. :-)

[sinkwriter.livejournal.com]

Speaking of reading something... I promise to get to it soon. I just have a big paper due this week so I've been hard at work researching for it. Today I have to write the bulk of it. But once I pass that hurdle I should have much more time to focus on reading your new stuff. I'm really looking forward to it!!

I'm sorry to hear you injured your back. How's it feeling now? Is it getting better?

*still chuckling at the 'cake-fu' comment * Ah yes, the cake-fu is strong with this one... ;D

What kind of cake did he make (flavor, I mean)? And what are the ingredients in a 1-2-3-4 cake?

Now I want cake... *GRIN*

[bardsmaid.livejournal.com]

The 1-2-3-4 is a classic vanilla cake. It gets the name from the basic ingredients: 1 cup of butter, 2 cups of sugar, 3 cups of flour* and 4 eggs. (Other stuff: 1/2 tsp. salt, 1 T baking powder, 1 tsp. vanilla and 1 c. milk. Bake at 350.) My mom used to make it a lot, and so did my grandmother... though my mom would always scrape off the beaters completely, while Grandma would leave some dough on for me to lick. Yum!

Ben makes a mean cake (from scratch, of course.) We don't do it often because if the stuff was sitting around, I'd eat far more than I should. Ben takes his time creaming the ingredients, etc., and I think he also benefits from the many Alton Brown cooking shows he's watched. He likes the chemistry highlights, but find the tips useful, too.

(*That's 3 cups of sifted cake flour, but even so you have to be careful not to use too much, and you may actually need less.)