Opening Night Game Pics

[ABM]

Quick buttercream.

Classic is made by boiling sugar syrup to soft ball, pouring over beaten eggs, yolks, or white, beating until cool & voluminous, then beating in up to a pound of butter. Add flavorings (vanilla, chocolate, coffee, liqueur, whatever). Neoclassic adds a bit of corn syrup to sugar & water, keeps it from crystallizing (I always do neoclassic), same technique. Quick has no egg, beats butter with confectioners sugar, adds flavor. Sweeter.

Careful with that soft ball. Don't want no premature elastication.

 

[theprunetang]

Quick buttercream.

Classic is made by boiling sugar syrup to soft ball, pouring over beaten eggs, yolks, or white, beating until cool & voluminous, then beating in up to a pound of butter. Add flavorings (vanilla, chocolate, coffee, liqueur, whatever). Neoclassic adds a bit of corn syrup to sugar & water, keeps it from crystallizing (I always do neoclassic), same technique. Quick has no egg, beats butter with confectioners sugar, adds flavor. Sweeter.

Thanks for the lesson. I've always loved cooking, and feel that creative food is super important. Baking is a whole new world I have just opened up.

 

[ABM]

Thanks for the lesson. I've always loved cooking, and feel that creative food is super important. Baking is a whole new world I have just opened up.

Be careful...it all starts with cupcakes...

 

[theprunetang]

Be careful...

So I'm going to turn into HCP?

 

[ABM]

So I'm going to turn into HCP?

Check out the new pic!

 

[THE HCP]

So I'm going to turn into HCP?

Damn!!!

 

[ABM]

Anyways, thanks @ABM for having me over. The hot wings were great, your wife was very kind, and I obviously enjoyed playing with your dogs. Not the best outcome for the game, but there are 81 more of them!

I appreciate the hospitality.

@theprunetang, my wife was so impressed with game night that she went out and bought all new furniture for the room - 2 recliners and a sofa-sleeper! Hmmm...I wonder if she was hinting at a cupcakes sleepover?! At any rate, I don't think I'm quite ready to enter the realm of Mrs. ABM jokes.....

 

[riverman]

At any rate, I don't think I'm quite ready to enter the realm of Mrs. ABM jokes.....

When she tells a joke it won't matter if you're ready or not though....

 

[ABM]

When she tells a joke it won't matter if you're ready or not though....

Actually, I was referring to what @THE HCP goes through in these parts in regards to THE MRS. It's brutal. Good thing he's thick-skinned, though. Errrrrr......wait.

 

[riverman]

Actually, I was referring to what @THE HCP goes through in these parts in regards to THE MRS. It's brutal. Good thing he's thick-skinned, though. Errrrrr......wait.

I know...it's why I didn't run with the foldout bed she bought the day after prunetang visited.....that was a real softball for a joke.

 

[Shaboid]

Actually, I was referring to what @THE HCP goes through in these parts in regards to THE MRS. It's brutal. Good thing he's thick-skinned, though. Errrrrr......wait.

He is pretty thick.

 

[crandc]

Thanks for the lesson. I've always loved cooking, and feel that creative food is super important. Baking is a whole new world I have just opened up.

Only way to learn how to bake us to just start baking. Feel free to use me as a resource.

 

[theprunetang]

Only way to learn how to bake us to just start baking. Feel free to use me as a resource.

That's definitely the way I'm going. I'll learn as I go. And I will definitely pick your brain if I get a chance.