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pixel39More than you ever wanted to know about sea lions:
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More than you ever wanted to know about sea lions: <a href="http://<a href="http://www.seaworld.org/AnimalBytes/sea_lionab.html" target="_blank">Ork!</a></a>
A group of sea lions on land is a colony, in the water it's a raft.
Sea lions and dolphins in the military: <a href="http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s797943.htm" target="_blank">Glub!</a>
A website about Eurasian otters (which are not sea lions, but are cute nonetheless) including otter-spotting holidays in Scotland: <a href="http://www.ottersite.btinternet.co.uk" target="_blank">Otters!</a>
Llamas are larger than frogs: <a href="http://www.smartt.com/~brianp/" target="_blank">Cuidado! Llamas!</a>
Should I make my grandmother's 90th birthday cake in a heart shape, or a hexagon shape? I bought a nested set of heart pans and matching cake plates last night (because Michael's was having a sale) but I am planning on stopping at Sweet Celebrations The Money Pit on the way home from work at some point soon, to acquire the hex pans because they are just So Incredibly Cool. In conferring with the Sibling, we determined that it should be a white cake with raspberry buttercream, there should be marzipan involved somehow, and if I can figure out how to include chocolate in there that would be good too. There won't be that many of us there, because there aren't that many of us to begin with, so if I use small pans I can make a tiered cake and it will look Really Spiffy. Sibling suggested marzipan flowers, because they can be avoided by those who don't care for it, and the rest of us can pick them off and eat them. Devious, she is. I was just going to put marzipan in one of the cakes and leave the other tier plain.
I would get incredibly elaborate with this cake, but she's 90, and she honestly won't notice some of the subtler things I could do with a cake. I will save the subtle nuances for next weekend when I inflict sugar on people. *evil cackle*
So I am thinking raspberry buttercream and white chocolate ganache to fill the layers on one, and a dark chocolate ganache with the buttercream on the other. Or perhaps a mousse--the cheapie mousse recipe is wonderful for cake filling (for those of you who remember, it was the filling, with the addition of coffee, in The Cake That Woke Up Cleveland. The cake about which my cousin commented "You could be a lesbian with this cake. Women would just follow you everywhere.")
For those of you who missed this creation, imagine a dark chocolate cake (made with coffee), with coffee mocha mousse as the filling and frosted with coffee mocha buttercream and garnished with chocolate covered coffee beans.
A group of sea lions on land is a colony, in the water it's a raft.
Sea lions and dolphins in the military: <a href="http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s797943.htm" target="_blank">Glub!</a>
A website about Eurasian otters (which are not sea lions, but are cute nonetheless) including otter-spotting holidays in Scotland: <a href="http://www.ottersite.btinternet.co.uk" target="_blank">Otters!</a>
Llamas are larger than frogs: <a href="http://www.smartt.com/~brianp/" target="_blank">Cuidado! Llamas!</a>
Should I make my grandmother's 90th birthday cake in a heart shape, or a hexagon shape? I bought a nested set of heart pans and matching cake plates last night (because Michael's was having a sale) but I am planning on stopping at Sweet Celebrations The Money Pit on the way home from work at some point soon, to acquire the hex pans because they are just So Incredibly Cool. In conferring with the Sibling, we determined that it should be a white cake with raspberry buttercream, there should be marzipan involved somehow, and if I can figure out how to include chocolate in there that would be good too. There won't be that many of us there, because there aren't that many of us to begin with, so if I use small pans I can make a tiered cake and it will look Really Spiffy. Sibling suggested marzipan flowers, because they can be avoided by those who don't care for it, and the rest of us can pick them off and eat them. Devious, she is. I was just going to put marzipan in one of the cakes and leave the other tier plain.
I would get incredibly elaborate with this cake, but she's 90, and she honestly won't notice some of the subtler things I could do with a cake. I will save the subtle nuances for next weekend when I inflict sugar on people. *evil cackle*
So I am thinking raspberry buttercream and white chocolate ganache to fill the layers on one, and a dark chocolate ganache with the buttercream on the other. Or perhaps a mousse--the cheapie mousse recipe is wonderful for cake filling (for those of you who remember, it was the filling, with the addition of coffee, in The Cake That Woke Up Cleveland. The cake about which my cousin commented "You could be a lesbian with this cake. Women would just follow you everywhere.")
For those of you who missed this creation, imagine a dark chocolate cake (made with coffee), with coffee mocha mousse as the filling and frosted with coffee mocha buttercream and garnished with chocolate covered coffee beans.
