Made this lovely-looking cake for my friends birthday, because I am skint, too busy saving up for Reading (woop an' holler!) It's got rainbow drops on the top and gay bacon around the edges, but I don't know if you know what gay bacon is... it's like bacon only multicoloured and made of sugar. Regular feed for the average poor student, at 38p a packet, or 3 for...
. Two cups of heavy cream, cut with cream cheese, a solution as elegant as it is delicious. The cream cheese's natural body gives backbone to the skittish whipped cream (natural, here, hailing from stabilizers, but hey), while its tang lent the tiniest, loveliest echo. We left out all flavors (no almond, no vanilla), and swapped in powdered sugar for softness and strength. We also added only five of the eight tablespoons' cream cheese called for, being three bagels short of a full brick.
...I turned 26 on 11/11/11. I wanted to have a memorable birthday (this date only happens once every 100 years!) so I saw that easyjet has relatively cheap flights to cities all over Europe. The prices seemed reasonable since to fly from Pennsylvania to New York City in the US, I paid $200 and thought that was decent. But to have a roundtrip and direct flight in Europe,...
