What will you be baking/cooking to keep your spirits up?

not sue about baking... but cookies? WOO! They're my writing fuel. COOKIES!!!!

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Shut up and LOVE it!

Random Foccacias and Banana Bread.

I could be convinced to do another Strawberry Cheesecake too...

K

pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-
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eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease?

(edit as it seemed to break the forums)

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Shut up and LOVE it!

I have bought more packets of those strawberry baby muffins I left at the BBQ, I came back and they were gone so either people really liked them or the plate blew away...

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'You're still riding that old thing?'
'Well, we can't all come and go by BUBBLE!'

Nestle Choc Bits*

Dips and crackers

(I know they are a bad, bad company and I empathise with those little third- world bubbas and mamas, etc. but Cadbury have totally focked their chocolate nowadays and let's face it, I have to eat).

Oh and cooking - well that's just silly talk. I can buy everything I want/need already prepared in pretty packages. So, NO.

I would so totally cook if I had a proper oven. In my new house my oven actually shares the same gas cylendar which means if you light a second plate on the stove top the first you have already burning will dim. You can't imagine how hard it is also to cook in an oven where the door doesn't close all the way.

*sigh* I miss cooking.

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I have recently become addicted to honey joys, and am about to go make more.

Recipe:

Ingredients:

4 cups corn flakes
1/3 cup sugar
1 tbsp honey
90g butter or margarine (or one of those butter-like spread thingies, it doesn't matter)

Method:

Melt butter, sugar and honey together in a big saucepan until they sort-of froth. You'll know it when you see it. Let it cool for a bit and then add the cornflakes and make sure they all get covered in the butter/sugar/honey. Then spoon the mixture out into patty pans (I use the mini ones so I don't feel as guilty for eating each one) and put them in the oven at 160c for about 10 minutes. Best to let them cool before you eat them.

Makes about 24 mini ones with extra mixture leftover to eat while you wait for them to cool/cook.

And yes these will make appearances at all of the write-ins I turn up to, along with the results of any other cooking experiments I perform in the meantime. Almond shortbread biscuits anyone?

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I got nothing.

Last year someone had a recipe for an amazing, single-serve chocolate cake, which has helped me survive year twelve.
I shal bestow down the same warning that came with it when I first read the recipe, November last year: this is the most dangerous chocolate cake in the world, because now, chocolate cake is no more than five minutes away.

SO! Get a LARGE mug (I like to use a soup mug ^_^).
Put in:
Four tablespoons of plain flour
Four tablespoons of sugar
Two tablespoons of cocoa
and mix them all up.
Then mix in an egg.
Then mix in three tablespoons of milk, and three tablespoons of oil.
A splash of vanilla essense.
Choc-chips / M'n'Ms if you so desire, but I quite like mine without.
And then microwave for three minutes (but I usually put mine in for two minutes forty-five, because I like it a little bit more squishy).
And then eat it, and cry with joy.
Also very nice with a glass of cold Milo.

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"Don’t worry about being a writer, or being a novelist, just, ah, take a walk in your brain. Or a bike ride. In your brain. But don’t drive… that's bad for the environment."
--Hank Green

Ally, that was me, and I was JUST about to repost it, but you beat me to it! tee hee..

Here is a link to pictures of said cake in a mug - http://www.dizzy-dee.com/recipe/chocolate-cake-in-5-minutes

It is EVIL... writing away, stop for my 10 minute eyeballsaremeltingbreak.... cake... RAAAR!!

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Shut up and LOVE it!

Hahaha, I don't know whether to thankyou or curse you!!!

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"Don’t worry about being a writer, or being a novelist, just, ah, take a walk in your brain. Or a bike ride. In your brain. But don’t drive… that's bad for the environment."
--Hank Green

Hahaha, I don't know whether to thankyou or curse you!!!

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"Don’t worry about being a writer, or being a novelist, just, ah, take a walk in your brain. Or a bike ride. In your brain. But don’t drive… that's bad for the environment."
--Hank Green

I'm going to be making my Nanna's chicken soup, the short and not too complicated version. Though I will be trying those 5 min cakes, because every day could use a cake like that the way this last week has been lol.

I would give out the recipe for the chicken soup, but Nanna is a ninja (or so we've been led to conclude after many incidents) and thus she would probably kill me. I can tell you that it has carrot, parsnip, celery and those cool soup mix things that are small and round and you need to soak them before use, and chicken. You can make your own stock, or just use chicken stock and Nanna suggests adding pasta or rice to it if you want more of a stew than a soup or just want something filling. It keeps really, really well in the freezer too.

The other thing I will be making is instant pudding. You get the packets of instant pudding from the supermarket, sprinkle the contents over about 750ml of milk, then beat until it's all bubbly and dark coloured. Put it in the fridge, generally about 10mins does the trick, and you have enough to serve anywhere from 1 - 6 people without too much trouble.

I love all the recipes, great work guys!

Raspberry and white chocolate muffins. Nicked the idea off Starbucks; found a recipe that tastes awesomer than theirs. It uses raspberry jam instead of whole raspberries so the raspberry taste is distributed through the whole muffin, and many many white chocolate chips.

I'm having a go at some sort of truffly ball-things involving Marie biscuits, condensed milk, cocoa and desecrated coconut this weekend. Haven't made them since primary school; I seem to recall they are messy and I should probably buy some cheap latex gloves so I can handle the balls without getting gunk all over me. Stop laughing at the back there, I can hear you you know.

I'm keen to make this rainbow cake on the weekend as well, but that depends on how much cooking Danny wants to do. He has developed a fondness for making cake, which isn't really something I can object to.

Apart from that little burst of baking, I like Simone's recipe for 'stuff from the shops'.

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Municipal Liaison for Australia and New Zealand :: Melbourne
Moderator for Games, Diversions, and Other Exciting Forms of Procrastination

O RLY?

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I got nothing.

I'm almost afraid to ask, but how does one desecrate a coconut?

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'You're still riding that old thing?'
'Well, we can't all come and go by BUBBLE!'

ha! it surely involves a different kind of hammering than usual...

i suppose it was a misprint for dessicated coconut. but now you have me thinking evilly flaked and sweetened thoughts. sorry to barge in from buffalo ny, i got led astray into this thread by a poor keyword search, and then just led by the thread! i do love many Australian films... and i have have a musician friend over there, somewhere. if it helps.

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Canning peaches for the Zombie Apocalypse...

Yes... 'misprint'... totally unintentional... :D

You're more than welcome to visit us!

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Municipal Liaison for Australia and New Zealand :: Melbourne
Moderator for Games, Diversions, and Other Exciting Forms of Procrastination

I'mma learn to make pork dumplings :D

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I call it decimated coconut, but Lauren's version is better.

I'm currently halfway through Weight Watchers and have no wish to sabotage my hard work so far, so:

lots of my very own 0 point vege soup

Lots of pots of jasmine green tea.

salad veg to nibble on - I've been averaging 2 punnets of cherry tomatoes a day lately. Very expensive habit!

and the very occasional Naturals Sour Squirms for a treat

There may be a light chocolate cake baked later today, and I will be allowed 1 piece a day!

Decimated's when you drop a tenth of it on the floor :D

Which reminds me, I need to go mop the kitchen, in an entirely unrelated incident.

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Municipal Liaison for Australia and New Zealand :: Melbourne
Moderator for Games, Diversions, and Other Exciting Forms of Procrastination

I am going to try the instant chocolate cake today! Yum! :)

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