Journey from Flabazon back to Glamazon

[glamazon]

Originally Posted by Sapphira

Oh man, now I'm starting to feel like the deprived god of cake felt! I'm tired of all this pudding and mousse. Need more substance. MUST. HAVE. CAKE. I think I've seen pics of that recipe on the food porn thread. Good to know that it's cheap and easy to prepare... my two favorite things! I'll have to try that this month.

Did you use Steviva or did you use a mix of sweeteners like the recipe calls for?

That God of Cake thing was totally me-- but not as a child-- just last year!

I used only the Steviva Blend and nothing else, I put in just under 3/4 cup-- it was what was left of a bag-- and it worked perfectly.

[glamazon]

Originally Posted by Frenchie'sGirl

Cake sounds Awesome! I want cake! I want ideal sweetener, I want! (boy I'm a greedy little goober this morning) I am off to the dentist and none to happy about it. Last time he did exploratory surgery of one of my roots without anesthesia

Oh no! Good luck with the Dentist! Don't let him do that ever again! You have a foot! Use it!

[glamazon]

Originally Posted by piratewoman

Ang, your cake looks delicious. I will be starting back on the treadmill today. Have a great day.

How was the treadmill with your bad foot, Laura? Maybe you should just take it easy until it heals up-- don't make it angry! I hope you get well soon!

[glamazon]

Originally Posted by Bejewelme

Ang- that story with the cake is hilarious, LOL I think that was me, LOL

I am baking this darn cake this week, I gotta go get beans, LOL What could I use for stevia extract? I have the ezsweetz drops?

It looks ideal, man I tried the ideal brown sugar to caramelize on the creme brulee last night that stuff catches like major fire, almost burnt my hair off, but makes a nice toasted marshmallow taste, the artificial sweeteners defiantly burn differently than regular sugar.

WHOA! I had no idea they would burn so differently. I've caramelized them before without any issue-- maybe lighting it directly on fire is a little different-- lol! Glad you still have all your pretty hair!

For the cake I would just use Ideal or Steviva, or a mix of both. I'm not a big fan of stevia at all-- the little bitty bit in the Steviva I don't taste, so it doesn't bother me. I've never used the drops you mentioned-- I imagine it would work?

[glamazon]

Originally Posted by janetsbreeze

Hey - I TRIED to tell you all about the cake. I really did.

Ok, maybe I didn't and want to keep it all for myself!!
I'm so glad you liked it! It really is amazing, and your picture looks like it came out better than mine!

:blush: I know I know. I was not a Bean Believer. BUT I AM NOW! Now my head is wandering all over the place wondering what I can make with them now. Since they ended up so cakey-- do you think white beans could make pancakes??? Inquiring minds want to know!!!

[glamazon]

Originally Posted by Doggygirl

Glamazon, you need to post a FOOD PORN ALERT several pages before those pictures. YOU'RE KILLIN' ME!!!!!

So what's for breakfast today? (I know what I would be having if I were at your house...)

DG

:blush: cake. It was cake.

[glamazon]

Originally Posted by writermom

Oh that apron is too funny--love it!! I don't drink coffee but I will have a piece of that bean cake. Did Janet post the recipe and not tell moi??

Amber, you can't have Sting because he is mine. Please don't make me fight you to the death for him. LOL! I'm glad you didn't burn your hair off, otherwise you would have to borrow Martini's wig for your wedding. My brother had a girlfriend once who was a creme brulee fiend. She had this little torch thingie and little bowls and even a special tiny spoon to crack the top.

Speaking of pizza crust, I was watching Hungry Girl on tv about a week ago and she made an egg crust that looked similar to a mock danish. I wasn't really feeling it but I might try it out of curiosity. I normally just use a Mama Lupe tortilla but sometimes it gets too darn crispy.

Sorry to leave the coffee klatch but I have to get back to work. I hate Mondays!

--Laura

Hope you had a good monday! Have a slice of cake! I feel like a supersized June Cleaver

I now have the torch and the ramekins, but I didn't know there were special spoons! Do I need to obsess about them until I own some? Will I suffer if I use a regular spoon? Will it taste richer and more fancy if I get special spoons?

[glamazon]

Originally Posted by Bejewelme

Laura I made the best raspberry danish, I think it was Linda's recipe, it was delish!!!! Tasted like real raspberry danish!! Pretty sure it was Linda's. We will have to fight for Sting, LOL There are 2 men Tony must step aside for the Rock and Sting, like those guys with single names, LOL I get free reign when they come a knocking, which you know is so likely to happen, LOL

Raspberry danish?? um, YUM!!

I wonder who you have to step aside for for Tony??

[glamazon]

Weight today: 250.2 (damn 250’s still hanging around! Go away already!)

Exercise, day 22 of 67:
Morning dog walk
40 minutes weight room


Supplements taken

Food today:
B: scrambled eggs, bacon… and cake.
L: leftover sirloin patty w/ Dijon, daikon
S: cheddar cheese, mixed nuts, cucumbers w/ Boursin cheese
D: cheesy hamburger onion cauliflower slop

Gym report: yep, I went, despite my day being totally upside down and I didn’t get in there until 11:20. I just didn’t feel like doing the elliptical—the one I like was occupied so I just decided to bag it and go home. In retrospect it was silly, but I guess I just wasn’t feeling it being all off my schedule and stuff. But, I did make a little harder effort in the weight room and used a few extra machines, does that make up for it?

While I was in there I came up with a FRAKKING BRILLIANT IDEA! When I was a kid we had a family friend who made the most dynamite cupcakes I’ve ever had—so fantastic, I am still raving about them 30 years later. They were a rich moist fudgy brownie cupcake thing with a dollop of cheesecake in the middle. So. Damn. Good. I think over the years I’ve tried the Hershey’s Cocoa Cook Book version (not anywhere near as good) and the San Francisco Junior League Cook Book’s “Killer Cupcakes,” which weren’t so killer. I’m thinking I can make a low carb version! Of course I can. Still won’t be the ones from my childhood, but they won’t make me fat! Leave it to me to be dreaming of cupcakes while I’m in the gym. It was probably just a stupid Betty Crocker Mix or something our friend used, and all these years I’ve been thinking it was some unattainable super secret made from scratch heirloom recipe. LOL.

Oh, dammit! I just chucked my cupcake pans!

My positive for the day: I got flirted with! I was at Fred Meyer before the gym, dragging a giant outdoor nursery cart to the car with my new deck storage box on it, and one of the guys unloading plants from the nursery truck was all like “how YOU doin?” Joey Tribbiani style. I had no idea why until I got to the gym and saw that my nipples were poking right through all my gym clothes. HE-LLO! I guess men can appreciate that no matter how fat and old the girl is!

Success today. On to day 239!

[Izzysdream]

I posted it! Good thing I'm kinda sorta still dating a biker! And talking to 2 others! LOL

[glamazon]

Fabulous Tattoo, Izzy! Love it! Thanks for sharing, I love looking at tattoos-- anyone else have one?

I'm thinking about getting this one for myself:

[Izzysdream]

Originally Posted by glamazon

Fabulous Tattoo, Izzy! Love it! Thanks for sharing, I love looking at tattoos-- anyone else have one?

I'm thinking about getting this one for myself:

[Frenchie'sGirl]

Cracking up at the girls saluting the garden guy

You really got my mind swirling wiith the white bean idea. Black beans are extremely hard to find here and then only dried ones if at all. But white beans...I gots some white beans (some I've never seen before)

I also had an insane creaving for salted butter caramel ice cream..oh boy, can you imagine trying to decarb something like that?

I can't have a tattoo, with the coumadin it would bleed out so bad that most of the ink would dissapate and it would look like a ghost. Living in Seattle most of my friends had gorgeous tattoos and I used to envy them SO much. I did manage to get my nose pierced and still can't figure out how the guy missed it when I wrote about the coumadin on the form. A friend of mine went with me and after he stuck the needle in my nose and pulled it back out she was all excited and said "OH wow Diane I can't believe you aren't bleeding all over the place being on coumadin" I thought his eyes would pop out of his head...he said he wouldnt have done it if he had seen that

[piratewoman]

Diane, you're a rebel girl. Have a wonderful day.

[Martini72]

Well how kind of Glamishia to reply to everyone individually today. That takes a lot of time. And we all appreciate your effort!!! Gooosh she is wonderful!!!

GET OUTTA MY HEAD!!! All I could think was black bottoms!!!!! I was gonna ask u what u thought....BUT NOW I DON'T HAVE TO FIGURE IT OUT!!!! I will patiently await the recipe!!!!

OH I WALKED YESTERDAY!!! Me and the admin. We walked around the building and the one next to ours. Where we saw a scary racoon dumpster diving!!! Now I haven't ran full speed in years. But if that little bugger would have jumped off of that thing and headed for me I would have made the news!!!

[kittycitygirl]

on exercising!

You'll have to let us know if the cakes work out!

I got my exercise in too. Not the full time, reps, but I did it! Have to make it a daily habit!

Would love to sit and drink coffee and chat, but have to go to work It is always getting in the way of my fun! TTYL gals!!!

[janetsbreeze]

Angela, I did use canellini beans to make a white bean cake. It left something to be desired though and could use some tweaking ... that's where you come in!

If you make them, please let me know what you did and how they turned out!

[glamazon]

Originally Posted by Martini72

Well how kind of Glamishia to reply to everyone individually today. That takes a lot of time. And we all appreciate your effort!!! Gooosh she is wonderful!!!

GET OUTTA MY HEAD!!! All I could think was black bottoms!!!!! I was gonna ask u what u thought....BUT NOW I DON'T HAVE TO FIGURE IT OUT!!!! I will patiently await the recipe!!!!

OH I WALKED YESTERDAY!!! Me and the admin. We walked around the building and the one next to ours. Where we saw a scary racoon dumpster diving!!! Now I haven't ran full speed in years. But if that little bugger would have jumped off of that thing and headed for me I would have made the news!!!

Black bottoms! Great minds think alike, Martini!

LOL @ raccoon-- I can just see you running away-- CITY SLICKER!! Raccoons are all over around here, they just mind their own business.

[glamazon]

Janet and Diane-- Lauren has a white bean cupcake thing on her blog-- I'll try that. Maybe for mothers day strawberry shortcakes?

Ice cream is easy to make low carb-- I'm sure the caramel one couldn't be too hard? Do you have an ice cream maker? It may have to be vanilla ice cream with caramel sauce and a sprinkle of the salt on top, but that may work?

Have a good day at work, Kitty! I don't know what my exercise day will be today-- supposed to be swimming, but my husband is home with a headcold and my grandma (last minute, of course) asked me to take her to some eye treatment thing today. So, I may just have to go later, and not at my ususal time. I'm not liking being off schedule! Oh well, as long as I get it in, I'll just keep on keeping on!

[Bejewelme]

CUPCAKE WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Ang- I know the cream cheese ones of which you speak, OMG they are so good, we had them chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese in the middle and chocolate chips, yummy!!! I found this bakery in Las Vegas that makes all these funky flavored cupcakes, I am thinking of doing that instead of a wedding cake, flavors like:
They make a fancy little display and can even decorate it, the restaurant we are going to makes a great dessert as part of the meal, so I thought maybe get little boxes and people can take these back to their room for breakfast in the morning? What do you think? They are closed on Sunday so I have to get them Saturday anyway so might as well keep them sealed and get little decorative boxes, which flavors sound good?


Vanilla
Vanilla cake topped with vanilla buttercream
Vanilla Loves Chocolate
Vanilla cake topped with chocolate buttercream and mini M&M's
Chocolate Loves Vanilla
Chocolate cake topped with vanilla buttercream
Red Carpet
Red cake topped with almond buttercream and red glitter sugar
Chocolate Fountain
Chocolate cake topped with chocolate buttercream and dipped in chocolate ganache
Apple Cider
Cinnamon swirl cake topped with apple cider buttercream dusted with cinnamon and sugar
Milk & Cookies
Chocolate-chip cake topped with vanilla buttercream and a freshly baked chocolate-chip cookie.
Glazed Donut
Vanilla cake drenched in donut glaze
Cinnamon Toast
Vanilla cake topped with cinnamon buttercream dusted with cinnamon and sugar
Sprinkled Donut
Vanilla cake dipped in chocolate fudge ganache and rainbow jimmies
Coffee and Donuts
Vanilla cake covered in donut glaze and topped with a dollop of coffee buttercream
Hop Scotch
Vanilla cake topped with vanilla buttercream dipped in butterscotch ganache
Our #1 Selling Cupcake!
Cookies and Cream
Chocolate cake topped with crushed, chocolate sandwich cookie buttercream
Peanut Butter Cup
Chocolate cake topped with peanut butter buttercream and dark chocolate shavings
Mint Chocolate Chip
Chocolate cake topped with green mint buttercream and mini chocolate chips
Pink Lemonade
Lemon cake topped with pink lemonade buttercream and hot pink glitter sugar
Pucker Up
Raspberry cake topped with lemon buttercream
Winner of the Las Vegas Weekly 2010 Vegas' Best:
Best Offbeat Dessert
Cotton Candy
Vanilla cake topped with pink cotton candy buttercream and blue glitter sugar
Maple Bacon
Vanilla cake with bacon and maple syrup inside topped with maple buttercream.
Drumstick
Vanilla cake topped with vanilla buttercream, dipped in chocolate and crushed nuts

[pooticus]

Great looking cake Ang!

[Frenchie'sGirl]

OK, now I've drooled all over my keyboard and want to go make cupcakes

[janetsbreeze]

Geez - Can I have one of each of those please???

[Frenchie'sGirl]

Yeah Amber, Janet and I made need a wheelbarrow to get home tonight

[Bejewelme]

LIke I need 4-6 choices to appeal to everyone coming, what would be your top 6???
Sorry Ang, but it was all this cupcake talk, LOL

[writermom]

I think cupcakes are so fun for a wedding! My top 6 would be:
1. Peanut butter cup
2. Red carpet
3. Vanilla loves chocolate
4. Chocolate fountain
5. Pucker up
6. Cookies n cream

[Sapphira]

Did somebody say "cupcakes"?

Amber, all of those sound amazing! How could one possibly choose? I'm with Janet, can I have one of each? Haha... but if I had to choose half a dozen varieties, I'd probably pick:

Chocolate Fountain
Coffee and Donuts
Hop Scotch
Peanut Butter Cup
Mint Chocolate Chip
Pink Lemonade

[kittycitygirl]

and to think, I made it safely through the bakery dept. without even a wimper....then come here and

[Martini72]

cakkkkkkkkkkkkeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

[glamazon]

Cupcake city!!

I think for a wedding they should be all... weddingy? or are you looking for the kooky whimsical style? Maybe each one can have one of those pretty sugar agates they make right on the top like a cherry. Rock hounds! like clevelandrockscandy.com That would be unique.

How can you ask me to pick only 6 flavors?? That's just mean.