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Drinking horn with gilded copper mounts, Europe, 15th century

Baking hubris pt. 2!

Lavender cake with lavender cream cheese frosting and buttercream, filled with lemon cream and a blackberry jam(?).

I bought a giant bag of lavender to make cookies for Easter so I put it in everything. It got ground with the sugar and infused in the milk for the sponge, ground with the powdered sugar for the buttercream, and I even made lavender water which ended up in the blackberry filling and marzipan decorations.

I took a cake decorating class for my birthday last year, and this year I decided I wanted to make a sun & moon cake after realizing it’s just a circle cut out of a regular round cake. I did a practice cake with a box mix a few weeks in advance, then I ended up remaking the sponge like 3 times because I felt like it kept coming out too dense—even cut, stacked, and crumb coated a different recipe (lemon cake with store bought raspberry jam, the cake was too dense and the jam too sweet imo) before deciding to redo the original recipe a final time with cake flour.

Went mad with power and made TWO cakes for my birthday, because I couldn’t decide on a flavor combo and also I have friends with dietary restrictions.

This one is gluten free chocolate orange cake with orange buttercream, filled with chocolate orange ganache and marmalade.

I bought candied orange slices and dipped them in chocolate to make phases of the moon, and the little sun is made of marzipan!

“If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.”