Standing On Boxes

It was a long day… I fell asleep with the tv on… Emeril doing his thing… No idea what he was cooking… Rachel Ray was doing her thing when I woke up.

I woke up with an idea for a sequel (“The Hunt”) for my fic “The Bandersnatch” floating in my head. A BtVS/HP/Dr. Who crossover. Hadn’t planned on a sequel. Not sure when/if I’ll ever write it… but I should probably write the idea down BEFORE I forget it… maybe.

Need to finish my BtVS/Bond crossover before I can even think about thinking about writing it…

Watching FoodTV… “Al Roker on the Road”… Making a checkerboard cake (at some retro-dessert place in NYC)…

1. Make two round cakes. Vanilla preferred. You want two different colors.
2. Slice them horizontally, approximately 1/2 to 1/4 inches thick.
3. Now make circles from your round sections. Like donuts. Each circle should have a square cross-section. But be smaller than the last. An 8″ diameter cake? Assuming 1/2″ sections. 8 circles ?
4. Now put the circles together, alternating colors/flavors… and gluing them together with frosting (it helps, visually, if the color of the frosting is close to one of the cake colors). (They used a round pan the same diameter as the original round cakes (I think it’s called a ‘spring-form’ pan? Maybe?)… so they built the cake inside the pan.)
5. Frost/decorate the outside.
6. Enjoy.

Got that? Good. Gonna invite me over when you make one? “;->”