Roy Ballam
How do I get my cake to rise evenly? Add the cake batter to the pans and smack them down on the counter a few times. This will eliminate any air bubbles. Put it in the oven and bake away. What's happening here is that the moisture from towel is helping the cake bake more evenly...
If your cupcakes sink down to the point where you don’t feel comfortable just piling on the frosting, you can still use them, too! Allow them to cool, then peel off the wrappers and break the cake up into chunks. Layer these chunks with whipped cream/custard and fruit to make atrifle...
Many Bundt cakes and moist, sweet coffee cakes baked in tube pans have high ratios of sugar or liquid that can weaken the structure of the cake. It’s the center tube that allows them to rise and set, and the same batter baked in a round or square cake pan may colla...
Eating moon cakes is a must during this celebration. Both in spring and fall, Neo-Druids visit Stonehenge to watch the equinox sunrise to give thanks for the harvest and prepare for the coming winter. The oldest solar observatory in America is found in Chankillo, Peru, where the ...
Ask them to take a deep breath and almost immediately you see the chest rise and even the shoulders. They hold their breath showing how good they did. But that isn’t a deep breath it all went into the top part of the lungs and that isn’t deep. Breathing can come from one of ...
scoop of ice cream in a waffle cone, and then accidentally eating a bit of paper because you couldn't get all of the cone wrapper off before the ice cream melted. But how much of those delicious memories are just nostalgia, and how much has to do with the actual flavor of the ice ...
If you follow Kant – himself a crucial figure in the history of telling other people what to do – then there’s still an argument for voting politically, even if your vote doesn’t really matter: imagine if everyone acted that way. (In fact, you don’t even need to imagine; ...