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Week 50: Candy - Peppermint bark
  • I'm still so crunched with time between my new job and making goodies tongive out ffor the holidays, so I'm sorry i haven't beem contributing much this month. I've been doing olenty of baking, such as the 8 hours i spent baking Christmas cookies with my neighbors, or candying oranges and lemons to give out as well. I rven made hypoallergenic dog treats this afternoon before i made this peppermint bark!

    Originally i thought i would just wimp out and make tried and true buckeyes, but i knew i should try something new, and yall have seen me make buckeyes before.

  • 52 Weeks of Baking @lemmy.world Uncle_Bagel @midwest.social
    Week 50: Candy - Peppermint bark

    A super easy recipe and finally an excuse to use the chocolate mold i bought several months ago! I elected to go the double boiler route instead of microwaving the chocolate and wpuld recommend that to anyone trying this themselves. You just end up with a more uniformly melted chocolate that behaves better. I'm glad i went with the mold instead of traditional pan barkbecause it breaks the bark into uniformly sized pieces with a perfectly cream texture with a bit of snap thanks to the candy cane chunks inside.

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    70% of UK doesn't want Rishi Sunak to be PM any longer, poll shows
  • He wasn't better, he just had more legitimatacy since he was the party leader during the last election. Hell, Sunak resigned from said government before Johnson resigned. That's why there were calls for a new election after Truss resigned, but the Tories refused because they knew they would get clobbered at the polls.

  • 70% of UK doesn't want Rishi Sunak to be PM any longer, poll shows
  • Sure, but Sunak wasnt even the second choice for the Tories during the last election. He's in the Gerald Ford grey zone where no one feels like they voted for him, making him seem illegitimate. The British public voted for the Tories in 2019 (because they are morons) with the expectation that Boris Johnson would be in charge. Now the head of the party has resigned twice since then. In theory it'sall standard procedure for Parliament, but it's a clearly unstable government and viewed as a farce at this point.

  • A firm providing AI drive-thru tech to fast food chains actually relies on human workers to take orders 70% of the time
  • I'm 28 and i can barely figure out how to order from the stupid kiosks at McDonald's. It took my brither and I ages to figure out how to order a breakfast meal with a mocha in a road trip, and after a lot of arguing and swearing i still didnt end up with the meal i wanted. I should have just used the bathroom and used the drive through because the attendant actually understands how to use the system.

  • She broke it so she could baguette properly....
  • From the grocery store's perspective, at least in the US, it keeps the checkout lines moving way faster when some kid who is trained to bag groceries does it, rather than waiting for the customer to figure out how to pack it.

  • Between this and the capsaicin chip, maybe you should have some regulatory entity checking foods
  • Pure caffeine was pure wording on my part. "More refined" is what i should have said instead. Coffee and green tea extracts get mashed up and boiled, same as when we use them for regular coffee or tea, but then they will use a series of solvents to further break down the cell walls and further extract the caffeine.

  • Between this and the capsaicin chip, maybe you should have some regulatory entity checking foods
  • The caffeine in coffee has a much lower bioavailability than in energy drinks like this though. Most of the caffeine is locked behind the crll walls in coffee and tea, and oir body has a lot if trouble accessing it. Energy drinks have pure caffeine added into them and it is much more readily available for our bodies to absorb.

    To think of it another way, a typical joint with about a gram of marijuana has about 120-200mg of thc in it. Taking that much thc in an edible would absolutely blast you to the moon, but smoking just gets you regularly high.

  • Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"
  • I'm saying that those who create are entitled to the value of what they create. If a company asks to look iver some of your work before hiring you, says that they aren't interested, and then you see them using that work afterwards i doubt you would be saying "well, information should be free".

    If you want to write stories, draw pictures, make movies or webshows and distribute then for free ti everyone, then that's a noble initiative, but creatives depend on what they create for their livelyhood.

  • Dude, get out of here
  • They would have been fucked if it was a crocodile. American alligators are usually super chill and aren't a problem so long as you aren't actively antagonizing them. Crocodiles, meanwhile, are colossal assholes that are always looking to fuck up someone's day.

  • 52 Weeks of Baking @lemmy.world Uncle_Bagel @midwest.social
    Week 48: Cobblers

    Happy Thanksgiving to everyone out there! I've been so busy starting a new job that i havent had much time for baking. But we are having a thanksgiving potluck tomorrow so i decided to take on a bunch of stuff at once! Had to do a challenge this month, have to do all my Thanksgiving prep today because i am working tomorrow and Thursday so i won't have time, and I gotta make a good impression on my new co-workers! Tomorrow morning I'll whip up some fresh whipped cream!

    I still have 2 more small cobblers in the oven as I write this up, as all the small ones will be going to friends around town for them to share with their families as well.

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    The Teskey Brothers - Rain
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    Week 42: Inspired by a song - Oxford Comma sugar cookies

    Honestly, who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?

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    52 Weeks of Baking @lemmy.world Uncle_Bagel @midwest.social
    Week 40: entremets- hazelnut cake and crunch, white chocolate and coffee moose, with a butterscotch glaze

    Went off of this recipe only i used a roind cake ring instead of a square one. I'm not happy with how the carmalized hazelnut crunch turned out, as it became way to solid, and the glazing didnt want to stick to the sides of the cake, but all the flavors were absolutely amazing?

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    52 Weeks of Baking @lemmy.world Uncle_Bagel @midwest.social
    Week 39: Oktoberfest - brötchen and currywurst

    I'm not much of a bread guy, but figured i would give some brötchen a go! My currywurst is pretty lackluster, but the brötchen is awesome! I added about a teaspoon of ground mustard to it to give it a bit extra German umf and i am incredibly happy with it! The beer is Frankenmuth Oktoberfest out of Frankenmuth ❌ichigan. The stein is from Twin Oast Brewery out Catawba Island Ohio. Their Oastoberfest is my favorite Oktoberfest around here and I have been going for several years now.

    Proast! Have fun, and be safe!

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    52 Weeks of Baking @lemmy.world Uncle_Bagel @midwest.social
    Week 37: One bowl recipe - chocolate chip pumpkin bread
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    My homemade buckeye cupcakes
    midwest.social Week 38: Cupcakes - Buckeye Cupcakes - midwest.social

    These chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter icing, dipped in chocolate ganache have a delicious homemade buckeye sitting right on top! If you love peanut butter, its a treat for you! But be warned that making buckeyes can be a tedious endeavor. Furthermore, go Buckeyes and beat that team up north!

    Week 38: Cupcakes - Buckeye Cupcakes - midwest.social

    I've been doing the 52 weeks of baking challenge all year and decided to do buckeye cupcakes for the cupcake challenge. Matches up perfectly with the huge OSU/ND game tomorrow, so go Bucks!

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    52 Weeks of Baking @lemmy.world Uncle_Bagel @midwest.social
    Week 38: Cupcakes - Buckeye Cupcakes

    These chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter icing, dipped in chocolate ganache have a delicious homemade buckeye sitting right on top! If you love peanut butter, its a treat for you! But be warned that making buckeyes can be a tedious endeavor.

    Furthermore, go Buckeyes and beat that team up north!

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    52 Weeks of Baking @lemmy.world Uncle_Bagel @midwest.social
    Week 36: Mocktail - Pimms Cup cake

    For the non-English among you, Pimms is a botanical, gin-based liqueur. A Pimms cup is the perfect summer cocktail with bright citrus flavors if the liqueur being brought out by the cucumber, lemon,and mint in the drink. There is a lot of variation on how people make their own Pimms Cup, but my Geordie mother always make a pitcher with plenty of ice, ginger beer, cucumber and lemon slices, with a mint leaf for garnish. We are experiencing the summer's last hurrah here in NW Ohio so i figured it would be a perfect time to go a Pimms cake!

    I based it off of this cucumber cake recipe but added a few twists to make it a Pimms cake. The cake has a teaspoon of ginger powder and a tablespoon of molasses to represent the ginger beer, a splash of peppermint extract in the icing, and i subbed out the gin for Pimms No. 1. I recommend a quarter teaspoon for the peppermint extract in the icing. I used half a teaspoon but it was too strong and overpowered all the interesting flavors of the Pimms No. 1 in the icing. Maybe next time I'll put the peppermint extract in the cake and put the ginger powder in the icing. Either way, it's an excellent summer snack for the adults!

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    Week 35: seasonal ingredients 2 - Blackberry swirl cheesecake cupcakes
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    52 Weeks of Baking @lemmy.world Uncle_Bagel @midwest.social
    Week 34: Protege- Doughnuts from Sally's Baking Addiction

    I dont really follow any cooking shows or influencers, but Sally's recipes never steer me wrong! Made these with my neighbors and shared them!

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    52 Weeks of Baking @lemmy.world Uncle_Bagel @midwest.social
    Week 32 - Natural food coloring: blackberry cheesecake
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