Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Time for Caking
As you cannot fail to notice, Betta blog is newly turned one year old. Now I have been bursting with a secret like cream from a cream-puff about the tacky bakery down the road that I buy bread from. They have informed me that they can make any cake my genius brain is able to conceive of. Imagine, if you will, ten different varieties of fruit cake, limited only by imagination. No longer will I need to get my fix from the greasy excuse of a slice from Starbucks, or wait till Christmas when I am invited to B.'s xmas party where I hover anxiously next to the properly made fruitcake (Now THAT is cake - I dream of it occasionally). Here is my list of dream cakes:
1. Boiled fruitcake with sultanas, currants, cherries and nuts drowned in alchoholic goodness, topped with heavy lemon cream icing and garnished with mint leaves, IN THE SHAPE OF A TOPHAT
2. Pumpkin bread cake with crunchy biscuit base and cinnamon buttercream and warm toffee sauce
3. Green tea chiffon sponge with sweet redbean topping and a heart of homemade greentea icecream
4. Fresh fruit tart with orange-water flavored merringe topping whipped to resemble the surface of a choppy mediterraean sea
5. Two islands of su-gee cake swimming a sea of blackcurrent jelly
6. An unadorned moist chocolate cake with just the right ammount of salty-ness, almost no sweetness, intricately iced with text from Derrida's 'PostCard'
7. Licorice ice-cream cake in the shape of Gandalf's hat, or perhaps resembling the misty mountains, with a red dragon fashioned out of red metallic sugar pearls
Oh I cannot continue - have worked self into a state of unimaginable cake rapture.
As the year draws to a close, these are the things that I desire, and so write them down in hopes they will come true:
The desires of Betta's briny heart:
1. To live in a good clean house with a garden of happy plants and a new bed, sans dog fur and roach colony
2. To know clearly the structural mechanism of local and state government
3. To be involved in Not That Balai festival and ensure interesting visual art element
4. To make performance videos and short films on my mobile phone
5. To write and compile my stories
6. To behold a fire-bellied newt
7. To make at least two major works
8. To write more critically on art and other subjects
9. To beg, borrow or steal a tophat and wear it out at night with a tight black dress and too much eye-liner
10. To prevail with good sense, good will, patience and steely determination; and to eat at least one slice of genuine home-made fruitcake.
That is all I want. ¶ 3:18 PM
1. Boiled fruitcake with sultanas, currants, cherries and nuts drowned in alchoholic goodness, topped with heavy lemon cream icing and garnished with mint leaves, IN THE SHAPE OF A TOPHAT
2. Pumpkin bread cake with crunchy biscuit base and cinnamon buttercream and warm toffee sauce
3. Green tea chiffon sponge with sweet redbean topping and a heart of homemade greentea icecream
4. Fresh fruit tart with orange-water flavored merringe topping whipped to resemble the surface of a choppy mediterraean sea
5. Two islands of su-gee cake swimming a sea of blackcurrent jelly
6. An unadorned moist chocolate cake with just the right ammount of salty-ness, almost no sweetness, intricately iced with text from Derrida's 'PostCard'
7. Licorice ice-cream cake in the shape of Gandalf's hat, or perhaps resembling the misty mountains, with a red dragon fashioned out of red metallic sugar pearls
Oh I cannot continue - have worked self into a state of unimaginable cake rapture.
As the year draws to a close, these are the things that I desire, and so write them down in hopes they will come true:
The desires of Betta's briny heart:
1. To live in a good clean house with a garden of happy plants and a new bed, sans dog fur and roach colony
2. To know clearly the structural mechanism of local and state government
3. To be involved in Not That Balai festival and ensure interesting visual art element
4. To make performance videos and short films on my mobile phone
5. To write and compile my stories
6. To behold a fire-bellied newt
7. To make at least two major works
8. To write more critically on art and other subjects
9. To beg, borrow or steal a tophat and wear it out at night with a tight black dress and too much eye-liner
10. To prevail with good sense, good will, patience and steely determination; and to eat at least one slice of genuine home-made fruitcake.
That is all I want. ¶ 3:18 PM
