Cookie.....Cake?

I've seen in the stores these wonderful looking cookie cakes. They look delicious but I've never had or bought one so I thought I'd try making one. I still had some white/milk chocolate chip cookie batter left over. Speaking of that batter, my brother said it was more of an adhesive so that we could just eat straight chocolate chips, which I'm ok with, because they are delicious cookies!
Back to the cake issue though. I had some problems to say the least. I coated the pan with butter and then floured the heck out of it so the cookie would come out safely. Filled the pan with the batter and smoothed it out as best as possible. In the oven it went at 375, and let it cook. Cooking went semi ok. There was just the issue of the outside started to burn or more so over cook, and the inside was still gooey and delicious looking. I let it set up so it could harden a bit. Unfortunately now the cookie refuses to get out of the pan. This makes me very sad. I will make an update with a picture of the giant cookie stuck in a pan now once I complete the next task.

The reason for this project is tomorrow is Father's day and I wanted to do something nice for my dad. This failed. Horribly. I will still bring this for him but I am also going to try and make a different cake, which will hopefully be as equally as tasty.

This will be worked on after dinner is started, and I will post picture updates about this.
I worked from this recipe Fun Cake Time. If you do not want to visit this website the recipe is as follows
Basic Yellow Cake

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (do not sift the flour)
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1-teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups milk
Vegetable oil
1 stick butter (not margarine), softened
1-tablespoon vanilla extract
3 large eggs

Preheat oven to 350°

Cut wax paper to fit the bottom of (3) 9 x 1 1/2-inch round pans. Spray the pans with cooking spray, place the wax paper in the pans and spray the paper.

In a large mixing bowl combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt, mixing well.

Measure the 1-1/4 cups of milk in a 2 cup measuring cup….then add enough vegetable oil to bring the liquid up to 1-1/3 cups.

Add the milk/vegetable oil mixture, butter and vanilla to the flour mixture and beat with an electric mixer on medium to medium-high speed for 2 minutes, scraping sides of bowl as needed.

Add the eggs and continue beating an additional 2 minutes. Pour batter into prepared pans.

Bake at 350° for 20 to 25 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted near center of cake comes out clean, or until cake springs back when touched lightly in the center.

Cool cakes on wire racks for 15 minutes; remove from pans and cool completely.

Frost as desired.


However, I had to make some alterations given the ingredients in the house. Instead of the grain sugar, I used approximately 3 cups of powdered sugar. I didn't have crisco to grease the pan so I used butter and flour. Speaking of the pan, We did not have round pans so I just used a pyrex pan. Seems like it cooked ok, only a bit of it is "over" done but not burned. I think mine took lover than 25 minutes but I didn't actually time it I just checked it every so often by stabbing it.
The website said that it was supposed to be a mix of two types of recipes. A traditional Pound Cake, and a yellow cake mix. I am finding that I really enjoy making cake from scratch, it just has a more unique flavor and is tasty. The cake is currently cooling off, but it feels like a denser yellow cake. I am going to make a frosting in the morning for it, unless I get an urge to do that before bed tonight.
I will update this post tomorrow about how the cake tastes and things like that. I unfortunately have no pictures of the creation process because my batteries were dead and I didn't have time to charge them before making the cake. I should have pictures tomorrow of the finished product though.

~Luna Rae Anselm

Toxic Fumes

I know I am not the only one who likes the smell of nail polish, but it has been a while since I've painted my nails. I did so this morning and boy did it smell beautiful. My nails are a wonderful purple color now and it has me curious of what it takes to make nail polish. I think this shall be another project that I try at least once.

~Luna Rae Anselm

Fae: A Tale

Spent some time thinking this morning about another possible story. I've been fascinated with Fae and their lives for a while. Not like Tinker Bell (don't get me wrong she rocks, but I'm looking for something not geared towards children). but the true Fae from mythology. I've got a bit of research to do before I could begin this but my general idea is that the Fae are starting to dwindle in numbers, more specifically the males have been targets from other supernaturals, and there worried their bloodline can not carry on. Desperate times call for desperate measures they they mate with anything they can, other supernaturals, and humans. In hopes that one day when the bloodline carries on two half breeds will create a full Fae and start their true blood line again.

I have to do some research on what it was believed Fae were, and how they may have lived their lives, and possibly find a new spin to give them.

~Luna Rae Anselm

Failure of Epic Proportions

So after I post that I'm finally getting into the habit of posting on this blog I disappear of the face of the planet. Not literally of course, I just forgot to check in on this for a while. I haven't had much in the creativity department but I am thinking this afternoon I will design some clothes to work on. I sadly have not worked on the shifter story any more, I kind of hit a wall because I was relying to much on True Blood to work the story but I may have some ideas in the near future, again based on True Blood, but ideas never the less.

I've applied to several jobs and tomorrow I'll be calling in to see if there are any chances of me getting employment. I only have 11 more classes including today's class which starts in about twenty minutes. I'm rather stoked about it because this class has been taking a while.

Until I have more free time-

~Luna Rae Anselm