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Apr 10, ‘16 – GF chocolate wine and raspberry birthday cake for my partner’s mom. It was either that or a tres leches cake, but she loves wine a whole lot and the flavor seemed a more special one. Also my co-worker decided for me, lol. Pink frosting is a raspberry buttercream, there’s a dark chocolate buttercream, and a chocolate wine ganache.

Honestly for forgetting to put the eggs in until 10 minutes into baking, it turned out great. Had to jigsaw it together and plate it into place with frosting but hey. At least the frosting came out well enough to overload that way. I'll have to give it a whirl remembering eggs some time soon.

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Apr 7, ‘16– Celebrating national coffee cake day with lemon raspberry coffee [cup]cakes. The recipe originally called for blueberries, but raspberries were what I had so, whatever. Gluten free and super soft, the crumble on top is your standard sugar/flour/butter mix. There were a dozen when I finished baking but a dozen there are no longer.

If only I hadn’t been working on national caramel day… :c Partner said I’d be too busy shovelling spoonfuls of caramel into me to really make anything but a triple caramel explosion something sounds amazing. I’m thinking cheesecake, but I haven’t decided. I’ll know by next year and it’ll be glorious--caramel is my favorite.

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More cakes I decorated at work. First was a regular 8" round white cake, second is a cookies and cream-style single layer. Others in the background lined up to be finished.

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Feb 29, 2016-- Gluten-free tiramisu! And broken up tempered chocolate because I got too hasty with the chocolate when I was pulling it off the paper. Oops. I'll do better next time. Followed Mary Berry's recipe. It was nice to be able to use a metric recipe. Bae was best, buying me a kitchen scale. At some point I misread the ingredients list and severely under bought mascarpone. I instead proceeded to overbuy. I'll get some bagels later.

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Feb 19, 2016-- Tiger birthday cake commission for a one year-old. Not gluten-free like my usual, but milk-free instead. Substituted cashew milk and lemon juice for the buttermilk the recipe called for. From-scratch strawberry filling in-between the layers of white cake with a buttercream frosting base and marshmallow fondant details. I'm pretty pleased.

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2.14.16-- Damn, son. Valentine's cake! It's chocolate and two layers with raspberry filling. The buttercream roses are rose flavored, and there's a marshmallow fondant underneath-- I was originally planning on making all the roses out of fondant, made it up, and quickly discovered that marshmallow fondant is not the way to go. Oops. Happy Valentine's/single awareness/soon to be discount candy day.

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Mardi Gras! Let the good times roll. My favorite holiday, so I've cooked the house down. Obligatory king cake, gluten free. I used a cinnamon roll recipe I liked for the dough, then used a sugar, cinnamon, raisin, and pecan filling.

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Things from work. Arsema is a cool name. I feel sorry for their having a birthday on Super Bowl Sunday though.