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Let them eat (carrot) cake
"Another week, another dollop of aid for our flailing youth. Ed Balls has promised new home economics kitchens in schools and downloadable pamphlets containing recipes for 11-year-olds to master - provided, of course, they can wrap their obese fingers around a paring knife. The leaflets' unstated aim of enabling us to prepare healthy, nutritious meals in the face of impending disaster (albeit fiscal and environmental, rather than bellicose) gives them the timbre of wartime propaganda. The only difference appears to be that this time, the roast chicken recipe does actually involve roasting a chicken rather than a bombed-out shoe or splintered piece of fence post.
I must have been one of the last generation (of state schoolers, anyway) to get home economics lessons. My sister, three years later, remembers a few classes of something called food technology ("Mostly describing the differences between a tomato and a hammer. And Joe McKellar said you could grill a hammer and Mrs Ames started to cry") but even in my day you'd be looking at the weekly session a long time before you were reminded of a riotous success.
Having no kitchen at our school, we would walk 15 minutes down the road to one that did. We lost at least 40% of the class to more interesting pursuits along the way. By the time they turned up - reeking of snakebite or Tipp-Ex, incubating the latest fashionable strain of STD, and, in a few triumphant cases, sporting the drunk-stoned-diseased trifecta - the rest of us would be halfway through making our third carrot cake of the month. Sodding carrot cake. Week after week we churned one out in the vain hope that this time it would look something - anything - like a cake instead of a sullen, sunken reproach to human endeavour and to hope. We were not yet old enough to understand that that is exactly what carrot cake is meant to be. Looking back, I realise there was a valuable life lesson waiting for us there, if only someone had managed to disinter it. Perhaps with the shovel we eventually used on the cake."
By Lucy Mangan "Another week, another dollop of aid for our flailing youth. Ed Balls has promised new home economics kitchens in schools and dow... more -
Charles and Diana wedding cake slice sells for £1000
A large slice of cake made to celebrate the wedding of Lady Diana Spencer and Prince Charles in 1981 has been sold for £1,000 at an auction.
The nine inch (23cm) square piece, decorated with the royal coat of arms in icing and preserved in clingfilm, was given to Moyra Smith, a cleaner at Clarence House in London, by a royal chef.
It comes with a signed thank you letter to Mrs Smith from the royal couple.
Chris Albury, from the Dominic Winter Auction House in South Cerney, said: "We have seen numerous small pieces of official presentation cake slices from this wedding over the years but this piece is altogether on a different scale. The decorative icing of the royal coat of arms is very skilled and while there is some cracking and damage it is in remarkably good condition."
He continued to explain: "Whoever bought it is unlikely to eat it as it will undoubtedly taste stale and be an expensive experiment."
The slice of cake was bought by a private collector from the UK who wanted to remain anonymous. A large slice of cake made to celebrate the wedding of Lady Diana Spencer and Prince Charles in 1981 has been sold for £1,000 at an au... more -
Let them eat cake
A man ate cake until he died. What isn't reported is if he won.
This is a bizarre waste of food and should serve as a message for over eaters everywhere. A man ate cake until he died. What isn't reported is if he won. ... more -
Cake Show - Virgin Media Shorts
Step inside this 3D animation for the final stages of a Cornish cake show and find out what it takes to bake the winning cake...
Bobb Strongman is a London based CG animator and visual effects artist producing animation for film, television, advertising, games and new media. Step inside this 3D animation for the final stages of a Cornish cake show and find out what it takes to bake the winning cake... ... more -
Blowing my birthday candles out with cute oriental waitress
Surprise surprise lovelygirlfriend produces lovely cake brought by lovely oriental girl who is encouraged to help blow the big candle out...........naughty Surprise surprise lovelygirlfriend produces lovely cake brought by lovely oriental girl who is encouraged to help blow the big candle ... more
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I video dolcissimi di Dolcitalia.net
Ti piacciono i dolci, non puoi fare a meno di mangiare un bignè con la panna. Ecco una raccolta davvero completa di video DOLCISSIMI.
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Le torte di una pasticceria italiana per i compleanni e i momenti felici.
Un po' di torte dalla pasticceria Lanfranco. Che buone!!!!!!!
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Rickrolled by....cake?
Someone made a Rickroll cake. Yes, cake. Awesome.
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Genius cupcake dance!
They're cupcakes. They're waltzing.
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Nintendo '1UP' cakes
Bored of the same old fairy cakes? Need that extra little bit of energy? Why not get your apron on and bake up some '1UP' cakes.
You'll find a step by step guide to help you, or your Nan, get your power boost on.
Well if it's good enough Mario, it's good enough for me. Bored of the same old fairy cakes? Need that extra little bit of energy? Why not get your apron on and bake up some '1UP' ca... more -
Happy Holidays from Aperture Science
It is short sweet and to the point. It?s good to see our good friend the Companion Cube with a Santa hat on, as well as the Holiday (Fruit?) cake.
If you have any links to any other game related online greeting cards, feel free to link to them in the comments. It is short sweet and to the point. It?s good to see our good friend the Companion Cube with a Santa hat on, as well as the Holiday (... more
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