I love making cakes, especially for friends’ birthdays. Yesterday was my housemate Mitchell’s birthday, and he requested a carrot cake but did not specify a shape. Given his recently acquired but ardent love for sea slugs, I decided to make him a sea slug cake: Turns out sea slugs (and related sea creatures) are frequently [...]
I was a mid-90s geocities page for Halloween. It was a fairly mediocre costume – I had a bunch of ideas for it, some of which worked and many of which didn’t. I don’t usually repeat costumes but I think I want to try to improve on this for next year. Stuff to work on [...]
The last two weeks my attention has been pretty well captured by Parts & Crafts, the summer camp my housemates run. They invited me to come teach this past session, which was themed ‘Imaginary Worlds’. We made card games, choose your own adventure books, chocolate aliens, telegraphs – but by far everyone’s favorite activity was [...]
The last couple of days have been FULL of cake. My friends’ theater company turned five this summer, and they requested a cake from me to have at their celebration. They’re called Flat Earth Theater, so the design for the cake was obvious: I put so much thought and effort into figuring out the decorations [...]
I’ve been doing a lot of baking lately. Last weekend I made banana bread, mango bread, and a vegan gluten-free chocolate raspberry torte all within a 24-hour period. This weekend, I devoted myself exclusively to a very important task: the making of my littlest friend’s first birthday cake.
