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Once upon a time, I was going to do this whole British-themed meal:  fish 'n chips, English beer, sticky toffee pudding, black tea with milk ... But then I made this pudding and it was so good that I kind of ... ate it without giving a hoot about the rest of the theme meal?  I'll care later. For now, I'm making this whenever possible because holy hell is it delicious .  Just as smooth and lovely and sweet and delightful as Leia in her Bespin costume.  Between it and her Hoth costume, I managed to fall completely in love with her.  Han and Lando'll have to fight me. Hello What Have We Here Sticky Toffee Pudding Ingredients 1 tsp baking soda 1 3/4 cup dried chopped dates 3/4 cup boiling water 1/3 cup butter (vegan buttery works here) 3/4 cup white sugar 1/2 cup pumpkin puree 1 cup flour 1 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt Caramel : make half a batch and you'll have more than you need, so maybe a quarter batch?  Or make the full batch a...

It's sweet, golden, and beyond basic, just like Luke Skywalker.  What more could you want? (Adapted from  this lovely recipe , saved here so it won't disappear on me, and so I have the edits I've made to the original.) This is best enjoyed with a cup of unsweetened tea.  Green if you can manage it. <3 Live, Laugh, Luke Butter Mochi Ingredients 1 stick salted butter 2 cups sugar 2 tsp vanilla 4 eggs 16 oz mochiko flour 2 tsp baking powder 2 14.5-oz cans coconut milk Instructions Butter a 9x13" baking dish and preheat your oven to 350*F. In a large mixing bowl, melt the butter. Add the sugar and vanilla extract, using a rubber spatula to mix until fully combined. Add the eggs one at a time, mixing each one in fully. Upend the mochiko on top of the egg/sugar/butter mixture. Add the baking powder to the mochiko powder, then start slowly mixing it into the wet mix. Once it's sort of combined, to the point that it's not al...

I have such  a weakness for Irish cream.  One of my favorites -- if not my favorite -- form of alcohol.  And now that I've discovered that I can make frosting out of it?  Please send help, my waistline weeps. But send a cake along with the help, because I've got this great frosting, see, and we could frost a cake with it ... This makes the perfect amount to put on top of one single layer of cake.  I'd triple it for a double-layer cake you want to cover on all sides. Cheers! Lap It Up, Fuzzball Irish Cream Frosting Ingredients Single layer 1 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar 3 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder 3 Tbsp butter, softened 6 Tbsp Irish cream whiskey Double layer 3 cup confectioners' sugar 6 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder 6 Tbsp butter, softened 3/4 cup Irish cream whiskey Triple layer 4 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar 1/2 cup + 1 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder 9 Tbsp butter, softened 1 1/2 cup Irish cream whiskey Instructions In a m...

I don't get why this bread works.  Really, I don't.  Isn't bread supposed to be a huge pain in the ass to make?  Like, fiddly and time-consuming and frustrating?  Always has been for me when I've made yeast breads. Not so with this one.  This is a throw-it-together-and-forget-about-it-while-it-bakes exercise in laziness and gluttony and it is amazing . Must be tasted to be believed, and believe you me, you'll want to make another loaf as soon as the first one is gone (which won't take long; this stuff is good ). Hold My Beer (Bread) Ingredients 3 cups all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled, or sifted if you're feeling fancy) 1 Tbsp baking powder 2 Tbsp white sugar 1/4 tsp salt 12 oz liquid (see note below)* 4 Tbsp butter (1/2 stick; 1/4 cup), plus some to butter the pan Instructions Preheat oven to 375*F. Liberally butter the bottom and sides of a 9.5" x 5" bread loaf pan. In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together the dry ing...

One of the more entertaining exercises in which a fan of Star Wars  can engage is to quietly comment to a bunch of Very Manly Men with Gatekeeping Tendencies where Star Wars  is concerned that Chewbacca didn't get a medal at the end of the original Star Wars  because those weren't medals, they were the Star Wars  equivalent of wedding rings, and the Throne Room theme  is actually a wedding processional.  Chewie's the obvious correct choice for best man, and why wouldn't Leia officiate?  She's very official. (The sputtering, blustering, "that is NOT what's going on" insisting that results is absolutely hysterical  -- because what's it matter?  It's a fictional story about space wizards and laser swords.  Calm down everybody.) Side-note:  that Throne Room Theme is a wonderful  processional.  Have your own processional picked out if you're having me officiate your nuptials, because if you don't, that's what you're comi...

I am forever losing this recipe because I've not got it written down anywhere localized (read: it wasn't on this blog) and the temptation to complain that I'm well-frosted over its disappearance is too strong for me to resist. This is such a simple recipe, but oh, it's so good.  Even if you don't like cream cheese, you're likely to enjoy this frosting.   The cream cheese makes it feel lighter than a traditional buttercream and adds some sourness to it, which is an absolute delight. I'd say something funny here, but honestly, I'm in a small food coma from eating too many  Annoying Dog gingerbread cookies  frosted with this, so I'll leave this as it is and go drool on something for a while. This recipe makes enough frosting for a double-layer 8" cake, two big pans of brownies, or Far Too Many Annoying Dog cookies.  Divides neatly in half and in quarters, and I'm such a nice guy, I've done the maths for you. You're welcome. I...

I love how incredibly stupid Han Solo is. First, he goes to the homeworld of the gangster who's put a price on his head.  Then, he straight-up murders a dude in broad daylight for trying to collect on that price, and then instead of, I dunno, getting the hell out as fast as he can, he sticks around waiting for some old dude and his snot-nosed Outlands brat buddy to get on his ship, just because they promised they weren't broke.  And then  he totally puts his neck on the chopping block to save a princess because the aforementioned broke snot-nosed Outlands brat promised that she's rich, nevermind the fact that the world on which she was rich was just reduced to what Han thought was an asteroid field, which means her assets' value is questionable at best. He doesn't get any smarter, either.  Bumbles his way through the trilogy like an idiot, gets his dumb ass frozen in carbonite, then doesn't use protection and ends up with a patricidal son.  WHOOPS. Oh well...

You inventory (stomach) does not contain nearly enough ANNOYING DOG.** Fix it. Annoying Dog Gingerbread Cookies Ingredients Cookies 1/2 cup butter, softened 3/4 cup white sugar 1/3 cup + 2 Tbsp molasses 1 large egg 2 2/3 cup flour 1 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt 2 tsp ground ginger 2 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg 1/2 tsp ground allspice 2 Tbsp flour (for rolling) 1 tsp cinnamon (also for rolling) Frosting Just use this recipe ; 1/4 portion should be good enough. Instructions - In a medium mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugar. - Add molasses and mix until that's all pretty and smooth. - Add the egg and beat it in until everything's all even. - In a small mixing bowl, combine flour, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice. - Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients until you've got a ball of dough. - Flatten the dough into a disc 1-2" thick and wrap it up in cellophane wrap. - Refrig...

So there's this awesome fan theory  out there that Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker isn't actually Luke's father, that Obi-wan Kenobi was actually his father, and it makes watching the prequels ... well, still a really bad idea, but it makes the orig-trig all kinds of fascinating to rewatch. I mean, they're already fun to rewatch  mostly because Mark Hamill's in them  but this adds an undercurrent of flavor. A hint of darkness, you might say. Much like the espresso in these cookies. By now, you've probably encountered cookies made using boxed cake mix , which is just the loveliest of easy cookie recipes out there, and this one is very similar to it, save that it uses espresso powder and butter and kind of accidentally gives you chewy Oreos you can make at home whenever you want . And that's just plain exciting. So join me in making these cookies, and together we will rule the galaxy as ... fat and sugar and oh god someone save me from these cookies they...

Ahh autumn. It comes with cool nights and sunburned shoulders where the days are warmer than I'm expecting them to be, comes with sneezes from the leaf-mold allergies I stalwartly insist I don't have, and best of all, comes with a ravenous desire to make soups, stews, and other combinations of veggies boiled together in a big ol' pot. This is normally where I'd tell you that Cloud City's a big ol' pot where crazy's all boiled together, but that's a stretch even I'm not willing to make. So we'll just go with the fact that Cloud City's got fluffy white clouds all around it (truly the creativity in naming is jaw-dropping, Lando what were  you thinking). For my next act of grandeur, I'll be making this recipe with carrots, Brussels sprouts, and mushrooms. For now, though, this is potato soup how you didn't know you needed  potato soup to be. You're welcome . Cloud City Potato Soup Ingredients 2 tsp olive oil 2 tbsp butter ...

So everyone within three zip-codes of me knows that I have an unhealthy adoration for Luke Skywalker, that R2D2 will always be my #1 favorite Star Wars  character (accept no substitutions), and that Chewbacca deserves WAY more love than he gets in canon and fandom and everything in between. What they may not know is that Lando Calrissian makes me seriously question my sexual orientation which, until 27 December 2015 when I saw The Empire Strikes Back  for the first time, was pretty securely pansexual with a heavy tilt towards women. Then Lando sauntered on the scene and into my heart in those goddamn polyester bellbottoms lord preserve me  and I needed to take a moment to remember how to breathe . This cake reminds me of him: Rich, beautiful, delicious, and riddled with all kinds of guilt. In Lando's case, the guilt comes from selling out his dear friend to a vacuum cleaner with a nasty attitude and a breathing problem. In the cake's case, it comes from the amount of ...

These cinnamon rolls are not good for you. In fact, they are actively bad for you. But they're cinnamon rolls, so they're SUPPOSED to be wicked awful for your health. Makes it so that you won't make them terribly often, which you wouldn't anyway because honestly this recipe is pretty long and kind of a pain in the neck (for all that it's not all that difficult). You can easily double the recipe for more cinnamon rolls, and if you do so, just use a 13x9" pan. Yes, this makes a casserole dish-size serving if doubled. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go DDR off all the cinnamon rolls I'm about to eat. /caloric guilt Rolling in the Deep Dish Cinnamon Rolls Ingredients Total butter needed : 8 tbsp (1 stick) Total sugar needed : 8 1/2 tsp (or 2 tbsp 2 1/2 tsp) Total cinnamon needed : 1 1/4 tsp Total time needed : 2 hours Total yield : 24 cinnamon rolls 1 cup warm water 1 1/8 tsp yeast  2 tsp white sugar 1 1/2 cups flour, added se...