Inspired by
this site, my own take on chocolate arachnids: chocolate mini-cakes with pureed cherry filling (the "guts"), coated in hard chocolate and adorned with Pocky legs (32 pieces of Pocky individually cut and reglued at an angle), then decorated with eyes (and, for Lane's, fangs and a black widow decoration).
They only took two hours (partly because they have a lot of parts, and partly because I ruined an entire pan of melted chocolate and had to start the coating process over again).
The twins were thrilled (although Alec quizzed me very closely to make sure there weren't any *actual* spider parts in it). Lane about died in delight.
Shortly after that, Kyle thanked me by accidentally clocking me with a toy, leaving a hideous bruise the size of a 50-cent-piece in the middle of my forehead that everyone seems to find funny.
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Thursday, November 8
Age of Discovery
I learned two things last night:
1) Rum tastes absolutely god awful. Like drinking WD-40 in a cup. How the hell do people drink this stuff?
2) Rum is not nearly as flammable as it's supposed to be, even at 80 proof.
Now, before those who know me well gasp at what appears to be a radical personality shift, leading to drunken arson sprees on my part, let me clarify that I was *trying* to make bananas flambe. What I ended up with is an inedible pan of bananas soaked in what could be labeled engine degreaser that wouldn't ignite. I tried a smaller piece of banana in a glass dish and did manage to ignite that one, but even after the flames went out it still tasted so strongly of rum that I wouldn't serve it to anyone else. Interestingly, I kept trying to ignite the dish that was already on fire, but the flames are too pale (and blue) to be seen under my halogens.
I'm thinking flaming deserts are not going to be my specialty, as cool as the idea sounded. Certainly not something I'm going to be serving to Lane and the twins.
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