Rock on, vegwebbers! :D
So, my friends and I all have boyfriends who like to geek out together on Tuesdays by playing a game of D&D-- that's Dungeons and Dragons, for those of you, who ya know, shower daily and DON'T live in your parent's basement. :P It's a pretty dorky game. Anyway, my friends decided that we'd surprise everyone with baked goods tonight at the Magic Shop. (Yeah, that IS actually what it's called. :P That's where they play.) So, I decided that since my goods would be the only ones that would be suspected vegan (I had already decided that I wasn't going to tell them until they were eaten, because I know these guys, and nobody has allergies.), so mine had to be twice as good as everyone else's. :D So, since I don't actually bake desserts, and have therefore never tried any of the site's baked goods, I put all my trust in all of YOU guys, and relied completely on the best-rated and reviewed cake and frosting recipes for my cupcakes.
And you were spot on-- they rose fantastically, my icing (what little I licked from my fingers when I was making a mess, any way) tastes amazing, and I don't expect them to have any idea that they came from the cud-munching treehugger. :D
Recipes used:
Easy Chocolate Cake
Basic White Cake
Vegan chocolate Frosting (split between two bowls, cocoa only added to one of them, extra vanilla to the other bowl.)
The best part was decorating, as I topped them with 20-sided dice and D&D figurines. :D :D :D
Even if they don't taste AMAZING (which I know they will), they'll still be the most popular, because they look so fun. :P
Pictures and raving recipe reviews will follow shortly.
Thanks again, fellow post-punks-- you rock!
Cool! 8) Let us know about the rave reviews :)
So, my friends and I all have boyfriends who like to geek out together on Tuesdays by playing a game of D&D-- that's Dungeons and Dragons, for those of you, who ya know, shower daily and DON'T live in your parent's basement.
;D
That is a wonderfully dorky idea! I believe everyone should embrace their own dorkiness. No matter how hard we try to convince ourselves otherwise, we are ALL dorks! I'm looking forward to the pictures!
Haha. Awesome. Thats ok, if it makes you feel any better, my BF plays Magic the Gathering every friday night! Cant wait to see the pics ;D
The best part was decorating, as I topped them with 20-sided dice and D&D figurines. :D :D :D
Pictures and raving recipe reviews will follow shortly.
I LOVE the idea of decorating a cake with D&D figurines. That's pretty cool.
I don't play D&D, but I have been known to collect an action figure or two (...or three....or....), which pretty much ranks up there with D&D on the Dorkiness scale.
(Shhhhh...some people don't know this about me...I have skeletons in the closet...literally. ;))
EDIT: After rereading my post, maybe I should clarify that I don't have *real* bones in my closet. I mean Skeletor and his ilk reside in there (and all over my office, too). Y'all probably knew that, but I just thought I'd make sure. :D
I like Apstaats quote:
No matter how hard we try to convince ourselves otherwise, we are ALL dorks!
How true.
And I can't wait to see the pics!
So, my friends and I all have boyfriends who like to geek out together on Tuesdays by playing a game of they rose fantastically, my icing (what little I licked from my fingers when I was making a mess, any way) tastes amazing, and I don't expect them to have any idea that they came from the cud-munching treehugger. :D
Ohhhh MK, thanks for my morning giggle! I love us on here, we can see the funny side of ourselves. "Cud-munching treehugger." Love it.
As "Lovejoy" said about everyone being a "divvy" for something in life, everyone is a "dork" about something in life. Dorky is as dorky does. ;D ;D
I LOVE the decorating idea!!
I don't shower daily.... but I'm not a D&Der either.... but I AM a dork.
Once DH jokingly suggested that we "get into that alternative lifestyle" and knowing exactly what he meant, I instead replied, "You mean you want to start playing D&D??" He was laughing so hard he snorted water out his nose.
EDIT: After rereading my post, maybe I should clarify that I don't have *real* bones in my closet. I mean Skeletor and his ilk reside in there (and all over my office, too). Y'all probably knew that, but I just thought I'd make sure. :D
I like Apstaats quote:
No matter how hard we try to convince ourselves otherwise, we are ALL dorks!
How true.
Well.....I'm not a dork....I'm an IDIOT! :D
Skeletor and his ilk? :o
EDIT: After rereading my post, maybe I should clarify that I don't have *real* bones in my closet. I mean Skeletor and his ilk reside in there (and all over my office, too). Y'all probably knew that, but I just thought I'd make sure. :D
I like Apstaats quote:
No matter how hard we try to convince ourselves otherwise, we are ALL dorks!
How true.
Well.....I'm not a dork....I'm an IDIOT! :D
Skeletor and his ilk? :o
Wow. Okay this is bad. Not only am I dork, but I'm a dork that has to explain her dorkiness. I've just reached new heights of dorkdom. (And you're not an idiot--I just make obscure references when I forget that not everyone is as goofy as I am.)
Skeletor was a character from an old 80's cartoon called He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. (*blush*) He was pretty much a skeleton, and I have a few action figures of him (as well as others--his ilk)...hence the "skeletons in the closet" comment. Here's some more explanation...not that you're probably interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeletor
(Once again I've unintentionally digressed from the subject. *Sorry!* Let's get back to talking about the D&D cake, which is so very cool...)
I'm giggling profusely at the Skeletor/He-Man debate. :P Apparently a few of us out there (*giggles and points at Dave*) are too young or too old (or perhaps "young at heart, wise in spirit"?) to appreciate the subtle nuances of late 80's cartoon programming. :P
Now, let's see if I can get a few pictures onto this window... I've never gotten it to work before. :P
Yay, computer incompetence...
Nother pic-- seems I'll have to do these one at a time, they're rather large.
Hmmm..I did watch lots of cartoons in the 80's.....I finished HS in the 80's....though I was more of a Flintstones, Bugs Bunny, and Tom & Jerry fan in those days...... :D
Well, He-Man may have been more early 90's-- I don't remember. :P But I watched it. :P
Last one!
He-Man was definitely mid-80s. I had a He-Man/She-Ra birthday party in 1986.
Umm... Davedrum, we might have to kick you out of the dork club for this one. He-Man (and She-Ra) was a staple in my childhood dorkiness. I hope you have something to make up for this deficiency.
MK, He-Man was definitely 80's. BTW, did you ever see the He-Man movie? Classic cheese!
Wow, they must have played He-Man reruns for a REALLY long time then, because I wasn't quite out of the womb in the mid-80's. :D
And yup, I think I may have OWNED the movie. :D
And yup, I think I may have OWNED the movie. :D
If you do?!...that makes you PRESIDENT of the "DORK" club! :D
Hehehe-- I don't think I kept it, it was probably one of those VHS tapes that my mother threw away as soon as I had my back turned, so that she wouldn't have to watch it with me anymore. :P
As far as next gathering-- I'm thinking about doing another round of goodies for their campaign next week as well, since I'll be leaving shortly after to spend the summer in Colorado (YAY!!!).
Any idea what I should bake next time? I might be a little too broke to decorate so elaborately, so I may have to stick with decorating with frosting or something. Perhaps little marzipan dragons? :P (I won't pretend that I'm actually that artistic, that would take me FOREVER.) Cheap cute recipes mucho appreciated. Maybe something not-cakelike... cookies? Brownies?
Your cupcakes are amazing, but I don't think I like the word "dork."
My oldest son is often called one. He looks them in the eye and says: What is it, exactly, about me reminds of you a whale's p*nis?
Of course, this is a family habit to use words in their proper meaning and context. I am a self-admitted "slut." Slut simply means a woman who does not clean her house. How it got that other meaning is fairly obvious, but that other meaning is incorrect.
Then again, we also tend to pursue untamed ornithoids without provocation around here.
Thanks for backing me up on the He-man stuff, guys! I was starting to wonder if maybe I really was the only dork on Vegweb! (I suppose that's still debatable though... :D)
He-man was definitely mid-eighties. I still have some of the original action figures that I got at that time.
I remember that He-man movie...Dolph Lundgren was He-man ;D.
BTW, Dave, I graduated in 1987, so in all fairness, you were probably just more mature than my friends and I were in high school. Not every fifteen year old was watching He-man at the time. We knew we were a little too old to be watching He-man, but that was part of the attraction--it was funny--we reveled in being different and weird. I only really watched it for about a year. But I kept the action figures.
Edit: I forgot to add that I love the cupcakes, Mizzou! I especially like the cobra cupcake. :)
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