Weekend ups and downs, and cake rec

[nineveh_uk]

I know, I thought on Friday afternoon after a busy (half) week of work. I will do the hoovering know, removing the infuriating bits of navy fluff all over the carpets, and then I will not need to do any housework over the weekend and can luxuriate in time and do art and write fic and maybe even review it. And I did hoover, and then spent the entirety of Saturday feeling rubbish, watching skiing, whinging at antisoppist, re-watching a rom-com with frequent pauses, and worst of all not having any cake/ I needed cake, but I had no cake and could face neither making nor going out into the cold to purchase it.

Happily today I felt brighter and therefore did some art, wrestled 500 words of fic into submission** (though not without taking some punches), and most important of all, made Nigella Lawson's emergency brownies. Inevitably I slightly overcooked them*, so they are not as squidgy as they might be, but they are very acceptable. I also have squirty cream kept for such emergencies, and am going to learn from this and ensure that tomorrow's supermarket order contains adequate amounts of cake-like substances so I am not left clawing the pantry shelves and finding only out of date KitKats. And tomorrow heralds the end of the cold weather so I can stopped feeling constantly pinched and actually leave the house, hurray!

*I do this with brownies and thus set the timer very conservatively, but they were not parting from the side of the tin like the recipe said they would, so I let them carry on a bit. Mistake.

**That venerable sub-genre, Prince Jing finds out.

Comments

[carbonel]

I have a family brownie recipe that I have made zillions of times, but I finally added a note to the recipe that if I wait until it looks done and a toothpick comes out clean, it will be overdone, and just take it out of the oven when the times says. Because otherwise my tendency was to do much the same as you, and end up with slightly overdone brownies. And really, the failure mode of underdone brownies is much nicer.