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Struggling to support JK Rowling…

144 replies

NitroNine · 01/08/2023 01:10

…because what sort of actual monster wants coffee [& walnut] cake for their birthday cake?

She even boasted about this [book-themed] bakery beastliness on Twitter.

It was surprise!cake, but clearly not in a Cake Roulette sort of surprise!cake way. Am shaken to my very core & clearing my diary for mad angry crying & performative packing-up of Potterphenalia.

I’m just not sure how to cope with this disturbance to the magical world. I mean, coffee cake. <shakes head sadly>

However, while I consider my position, I’m willing to be gracious & offer JKR birthday wishes as well as Superior Cake. It’s not as if people just have varying tastes & opinions or anything, after all, right? Oh & happy birthday to Harry Potter, too, who obviously doesn’t need to attend the cake reeducation course, because of course he agrees with me.

(Little late - courtesy of internet issues - & indeed little/lot silly. Not inspired by any specific individual, but rather the reflection even now, as support for JKR is trending there are people throwing wobblies because she is a real person with thoughts & feelings & opinions she expresses. And she doesn’t respond to demands/threats/tantrums so people make ridiculous claims about what the characters she wrote [would] think…)

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1686024491086798848?s=46&t=MY1IHKVfeDY_1v4HEEVDfA

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Crunchingleaf · 01/08/2023 13:43

SoundTheSirens · 01/08/2023 12:59

You are me and I claim my £5!

Do you occasionally play Revels roulette or do you shun them completely for allowing the abomination to taint the packet at all?

It’s nice to see there is another person out there with the correct opinion of coffee flavoured foods.

Revels are completely tainted and so are not an acceptable choice at all. Even thinking about the last sweet in the pack being coffee flavoured fills me with dread.

Somanyquestionstoaskaboutthis · 01/08/2023 13:42

bellinisurge · 01/08/2023 07:21

I despise cake in all its forms and I am sick...SICK.. I tell you .. of people imposing THEIR idea of what a birthday celebration should be.

Dd doesn’t do cake. Her birthday treat is posh olives. They’re a bugger to get to stand up with candles in, despite the natural candle holder hole.

Chersfrozenface · 01/08/2023 13:39

I find a lot of people regard fondant icing as a decorative wrapping to the actual cake. So they look at the whole thing, take photos, light and blow out candles, then peel off the fondant wrapping and eat the inside bit.

Because you can't really put iced writing or pictures on buttercream, it's not a practical artistic medium.

TheUnintentionalHorcrux · 01/08/2023 13:38

Coffee cake would be a good place to hide a horcrux.

No one, I mean no one, in their right mind would seek one out.

Blahblahgingerbreadlady · 01/08/2023 13:37

NitroNine · 01/08/2023 01:10

…because what sort of actual monster wants coffee [& walnut] cake for their birthday cake?

She even boasted about this [book-themed] bakery beastliness on Twitter.

It was surprise!cake, but clearly not in a Cake Roulette sort of surprise!cake way. Am shaken to my very core & clearing my diary for mad angry crying & performative packing-up of Potterphenalia.

I’m just not sure how to cope with this disturbance to the magical world. I mean, coffee cake. <shakes head sadly>

However, while I consider my position, I’m willing to be gracious & offer JKR birthday wishes as well as Superior Cake. It’s not as if people just have varying tastes & opinions or anything, after all, right? Oh & happy birthday to Harry Potter, too, who obviously doesn’t need to attend the cake reeducation course, because of course he agrees with me.

(Little late - courtesy of internet issues - & indeed little/lot silly. Not inspired by any specific individual, but rather the reflection even now, as support for JKR is trending there are people throwing wobblies because she is a real person with thoughts & feelings & opinions she expresses. And she doesn’t respond to demands/threats/tantrums so people make ridiculous claims about what the characters she wrote [would] think…)

Are you serious? It’s delicious!

Redshoeblueshoe · 01/08/2023 13:36

My DM made the best coffee and walnut cake - and it had coffee fudge icing. That was delicious.

FannyCann · 01/08/2023 13:25

I adore coffee cake but the icing is all wrong.

Sorry if anyone has law has posted it but while we are on a JKR thread I came across this in twitter just now - a list of schools that cancelled JKR and renamed houses that had been named after HP houses. Hmm

twitter.com/lottiehistory/status/1686056294367612928?s=46

SoundTheSirens · 01/08/2023 12:59

Crunchingleaf · 01/08/2023 12:29

I am addicted to coffee but I absolutely despise anything coffee flavoured. There is nothing more vile than coffee cake. As for the Fondant icing another abomination.
I love walnuts in carrot cake though.

You are me and I claim my £5!

Do you occasionally play Revels roulette or do you shun them completely for allowing the abomination to taint the packet at all?

Somanyquestionstoaskaboutthis · 01/08/2023 12:56

That is even more wrong than Tunnocks lasagne would be. Buttercream with walnuts shoved in is the only topping.
Likewise weetabix in carrot cake????? Carrot cake with cream cheeses icing is the food of gods why the hell would weetabix even be in the same room?

Florissante · 01/08/2023 12:48

Crunchingleaf · 01/08/2023 12:29

I am addicted to coffee but I absolutely despise anything coffee flavoured. There is nothing more vile than coffee cake. As for the Fondant icing another abomination.
I love walnuts in carrot cake though.

Coffee ice cream is the worst flavour ever.

Brokendaughter · 01/08/2023 12:47

That cake is an edible example of the idiom

"Don't judge a book by it's cover".

But I'm going to judge anyway.

Crunchingleaf · 01/08/2023 12:29

I am addicted to coffee but I absolutely despise anything coffee flavoured. There is nothing more vile than coffee cake. As for the Fondant icing another abomination.
I love walnuts in carrot cake though.

brokenlore · 01/08/2023 12:25

Always knew she's one awesome woman. My absolute favourite is coffee and pecan (not so keen on walnuts) cake. Hope she has a great birthday 🥳 dd has just discovered HP books (dd has SEN and really struggles with reading, but I've actually had to nag her to stop reading so she eats something!)

OsirisservesAnubis · 01/08/2023 11:25

I love love love coffee and walnut cake. And I love it iced BUT with coffee flavoured buttercream, not fondant!

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GCAcademic · 01/08/2023 11:09

If anything merits book burnings it's fondant icing on a coffee and walnut cake.

The chocolate and coffee mousse cake, on the other hand, looks amazing and will be all-the-better as my husband won't eat any coffee-flavoured dessert so I can have it all to myself.

mirax · 01/08/2023 11:04

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 01/08/2023 10:48

well that looks amazing

I shall be making that one

It is totally delish and guests always ask for seconds. I use dark chocolate for the base rather than milk chocolate and add a bit of kahlua liquer to make it more adult.

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 01/08/2023 10:48

mirax · 01/08/2023 10:38

JKR has good taste! I love coffee anything and make this chocolate and coffee mousse cake regularly, it is on the menu this Sat's dinner party. Failsafe.
https://www.homecookingadventure.com/flourless-chocolate-cake-with-coffee-mousse/

well that looks amazing

I shall be making that one

DudeItsPrawns · 01/08/2023 10:44

RocketPanda · 01/08/2023 08:23

@CherieBabySpliffUp my DM used to make carrot cake using weetabix. I wish she had written it down I'm desperately trying to remember it for you. It was absolutely delicious. She would soak the grated carrot in a bit of cold tea for an hour or so. It'll come to me.

What is wrong with some people? Walnut and coffee, and weetabix and carrot? I've peaked Shit Cake mountain - no, thank you.

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 01/08/2023 10:31

RealFeminist · 01/08/2023 09:38

JUST FUCKING FONDINNAE

include the file, omit the fondant

you got it Nic

RealFeminist · 01/08/2023 09:38

NotBadConsidering · 01/08/2023 09:12

I’d have thought you’d be looking a cakes suitable for smuggling a file into prison. You know, just in case…

JUST FUCKING FONDINNAE

mumda · 01/08/2023 09:17

It sounds fabulous. I love icing and cake though.

NotBadConsidering · 01/08/2023 09:12

RealFeminist · 01/08/2023 08:37

FUCKING FONDONT

I’d have thought you’d be looking a cakes suitable for smuggling a file into prison. You know, just in case…

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 01/08/2023 09:09

I can’t get beyond chocolate cake. It seems to me to be the ur-birthday cake

I do a really moist one from the Primrose bakery where you separate the eggs and whip both the yolks and the whites until they’re mousse-y and include a whole family sized bar of melted chocolate.

good luck to JKR with her incorrect birthday cake though. I don’t fancy that fondant much