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Note to self: When Aish calls and asks if she can crash at your house on a given Thursday night, it's a good idea to pay enough attention to her to know WHICH Thursday night she's talking about so that you don't spend an evening cleaning the house NEEDLESSLY in a frantic and stressful cleaning binge. Pause the DVD next time, willya?

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I'm in the middle of making the cake (the one I practiced up for last weekend). As I've said, I only make the one cake. I could make other cakes -- they're not terribly difficult -- but I don't like any other cake as well as I like this one. If I made some other cake, I'd be all irritated with it for not being the proper cake. Since most people do not like their cake served with a side of grumbling over how it's not the proper cake, it's easier to just make the proper cake and save everyone a little heartache. Or, y'know, I could make pie instead. I do that a lot.

Anyway, I'm taking a survey. How many of all ya'll out there in reader-land have ever made an honest-to-dog cake from scratch, using ingredients like sugar, eggs, butter, and flour? If it came from Mr. Hines or that Crocker woman, it doesn't count. Box cake is not good enough. Show of hands, or whatever: Have you ever baked a cake? Did it come out okay? Tell me about your cake experiences or lack thereof.