Cooking Kvetch

[plumtreeblossom]

I lost my Grand Marnier Cake recipe. I'm baking tonight. I couldn't re-find it anywhere online, and eventually settled for another acceptable recipe using Grand Marnier after switching the search to "orange cake." But I'm telling you, try finding a cake recipe on most open source recipe sites that contains none of following ingredients:

*pre-packaged cake mix
*Cool Whip
*Miracle Whip (aaahhhggg!!)
*Nilla Wafers
*canned frosting
*Sprite, flattened

Gross. It stopped being funny after about 30 recipes. I need more quality cookbooks, and I need them now.

Comments

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Fear them both, but especially fear Miracle Whip.

I know, I know, someone is going to jump in saying "I love Miracle Whip!" Fine, love it. But I have my own vendetta.

All through my childhood, the only mayo-like thing we ever had was Miracle Whip. I loathed it more than liver itself, and I didn't know there was any alternative. They called it mayonnaise, and so I thought it was mayonnaise. Ergo, I thought I hated mayonnaise.

It wasn't until high school when I accidentally had a bite of mayo in a friend's cafeteria sandwich, and it was good. It was only then that I found out there is real mayo and there is Miracle Whip, which are under no circumstances the same product.

And to think people put that shit in cakes.

[wellstar.livejournal.com]

...cafeteria sandwich, and it was good.

You know you're deprived when...

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Tell you whut. :-)

[androidqueen.livejournal.com]

grand marnier cake. that sounds really good.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I'm just about to start. It'll have a lemon curd filling. Pretty psyched, but nervous since it's my first time making it. :-)