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Struggling to support JK Rowling…

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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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lordloveadog · 01/08/2023 07:23

I was very happy because I love c&w and now if she comes round for tea one day I shall know what to feed her.

BabyStopCryin · 01/08/2023 07:23

I made coffee and walnut for DHs birthday. It was bloody lovely. DS had a pistachio one.

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.

Random789 · 01/08/2023 07:14

Phew! Was suckered by your thread title and thought she had said that poodles should be tortured or something. So that every time I claimed that sex was real and binary someone would say 'Oh, so you're fine with poodle torturing then?'

Yirk · 01/08/2023 07:09

And yet she always came across as a lovely lemon drizzle fan to me, hope it was a great birthday JKR🎂🍷

cuckyplunt · 01/08/2023 07:06

DH always as coffee and walnut cake.. although sometimes it identifies as a lemon drizzle cake.. despite the nuts🤨

DiabolicalFinial · 01/08/2023 07:04

Does anyone have a favourite recipe for coffee and walnut cake? I’m off to hospital again on Thursday, and whenever I get home again, I now know just the thing to bake!

GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal · 01/08/2023 06:55

I adore coffee and walnut cake. And chocolate-covered coffee beans.

BezMills · 01/08/2023 06:53

I prefer a victoria sponge. (misses point, woosh)

Igneococcus · 01/08/2023 06:51

I love coffee and walnut cake. I'm even planning to make one for dp's birthday later in the year. I won't let any fondant icing near it though, or near any of the cakes I make/eat.

RocketPanda · 01/08/2023 06:48

A big no to coffee and walnut. I like coffee and I like walnuts but not in a cake. Similarly I don't like those biscoff biccies but christ do they make excellent cheesecake base.

MrsTerryPratchett · 01/08/2023 04:52

maybebalancing · 01/08/2023 02:51

Coffee and walnut is a very classy and retro choice.
There is no excuse for the fondant icing but I like to think that that was the surprise element.

SURPRISE! I ruined your cake.

Form over function. That's a useful phrase.

MaggieBsBoat · 01/08/2023 04:49

Coffee walnut should be buttercream for sure.
The outrage!!!!

PriOn1 · 01/08/2023 04:40

I love coffee walnut cake, but never get it as nobody else in my family likes it.

So I’ll be keeping all my Potterphanalia thanks!

NotBadConsidering · 01/08/2023 03:24

Have you actually read what she wrote tried such a cake OP? Maybe when you’ve had a piece of iced coffee and walnut cake you’d like to return to tell us how wrong JKR is? They never do

maybebalancing · 01/08/2023 02:51

Coffee and walnut is a very classy and retro choice.
There is no excuse for the fondant icing but I like to think that that was the surprise element.

Boiledbeetle · 01/08/2023 02:37

Ooh coffee and walnut cake you say!

Woah.....

What the hell is that?

Who puts Christmas cake icing (can you tell I'm not a cook) on coffee and walnut cake?

That is wrong on so many levels.

So why do I want a piece?

I'm disgusted with myself right now!

Struggling to support JK Rowling…
miri1985 · 01/08/2023 01:59

When I read your post OP, I thought coffee and walnut makes me love her even more. Then I saw the monstrosity, fondant icing on a coffee and walnut cake makes me question everything

PronounsBaby · 01/08/2023 01:48

I love coffee and walnut cake, as long as it's not iced....OhmyGod the horror... Spits on ground and builds bonfire

What is your superior cake out of interest?