I heard it again yesterday. The woman on the radio was challenging people to give $50 to help people in Haiti and her reasoning was "it's easy for working people to find $50 in their budget. Just give up a few lattes." I am not trying to downplay the tragedy in Haiti or the needs of it's people right now. but why, oh why must the latte always take the fall? Why can we not say "give up the morning newspaper for a month." or "give up eating lunch out for a week."? I think all baristas, cafes and Starbucks should mount a marketing campaign to combat the smear campaign that lattes take whenever someone is talking about trimming their budget. It's just not fair! (and I don't really drink them!)
What type of cake do you give a graduating accountant? Why an adding machine/printing calculator cake of course! A friend of mine text me asking me to make one for her husband's graduation party and I accepted the challenge! I was very nervous, as this was my first sculpted cake! The night before I started working on the cake I cut the keys out of fondant. Because I wanted to make it to scale, I used a photo of an actually printing calculator. And then used the algebra my momma taught me! :) The width of almost all of my keys is 5/8 of an inch. I then cut a 2" wide strip of gum paste approximately 6" long and laid it over a quart jar overnight to dry. The next day I started by making 2 9"x13" cakes and placing one on top of the other and shaping the top one (actually only using about 1/3 of it) to make the top of the calculator! I apologize I have no photos, this was a pre-blog cake. Then came butter cream in between the layers and covering the cake! I rolled o
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