Elizabeth Bruenig

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@ockhams_razr every day — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@rachel_merker yep exactly! it's just a standard yellow cake with 1.5c of the batter separated into a bowl and combined with an emulsion of 4T cocoa powder and 3T boiling water (forming a cocoa paste, which melts the fat in the powder and allows it to blend.) then dollop that back in and bam! — PolitiTweet.org

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@laurajoh_ It's called Cakes4Kids! — PolitiTweet.org

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@alexturvy Cakes4Kids! — PolitiTweet.org

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I added some pearl and gold nonpareils for flower centers, and of course the peach colored script you can kinda see there is the happy birthday message i can't show you because it includes the child's name. but you get the idea. i'm happy with it, and i hope she is too! — PolitiTweet.org

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once the crumb coat was set, I put the final coat on, set that, and made another batch of buttercream, which I tinted in six colors. A star here, a rosette there…. https://t.co/Mmhe7ZkwfS — PolitiTweet.org

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meanwhile, I used a silicone mold I got off Amazon to make a candy melt unicorn horn and ears. I put the horn on a few last of cake pop dowel and then dry dusted it with gold luster dust…as seen here. flattering pic https://t.co/tysoOhB6c9 — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

that will lock in all the crumbs so the outer coat will be pretty and smooth. into the freezer you go. https://t.co/Cbi7Gb2wTQ — PolitiTweet.org

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my goal is always to make every cake as special and beautiful as one i'd make for one of my own little girls. this one was especially apt because the little girl who requested it asked for a vanilla frosted unicorn cake. alrighty! so: first thing to do is crumb coat these layers. — PolitiTweet.org

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in short, the agencies offer the kids the opportunity to get any cake they want for a special day -- birthdays, graduations, quinces, adoption days, etc. and the kids get to pick the flavors, colors, themes, everything. the orders come to the bakers, and we do our best. — PolitiTweet.org

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each piece will have some chocolate and some vanilla. so: mission accomplished. now onto the decorating, and a word about that. i work for a charity that puts agencies that work with children in foster care in touch with home bakers who're willing to make cakes for the kids. — PolitiTweet.org

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and…voila! Those very 6” layers we swirled, baked, cooled, and split. https://t.co/a4zp0IcBpF — PolitiTweet.org

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the reason is that different batters can have different densities, different moisture levels, and different leavening agents/tendencies, meaning your layers could wind up lopsided, sunken, and/or pocked. not what you want! so you want a single batter with a chocolate addition. — PolitiTweet.org

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this is a still from a short vid i posted earlier in which i marbled some cake batter. marbled cakes aren't hard, but they're a little tricky — it's not as simple as making your favorite yellow/white/vanilla cake and your favorite chocolate cake and swirling them together. — PolitiTweet.org

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marble unicorn cake: a short thread https://t.co/6TEIIuPUWa — PolitiTweet.org

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bout to do a cake thread so mute in advance — PolitiTweet.org

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@CrackerJackND summr too hot to have oven goin all day — PolitiTweet.org

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return of the season of roasts: thyme stuffed lemon butter chicken over garlic, carrots and celery https://t.co/N8QqQuh8LR — PolitiTweet.org

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if you get arrested you should simply ask to post on r/legaladvice — PolitiTweet.org

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@peitracine yessir — PolitiTweet.org

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@workmanswhistle keep honking, i'm throbbing — PolitiTweet.org

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@AdamEDowner yes — PolitiTweet.org

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baking ASMR 🧘‍♀️ https://t.co/E76nQi3frG — PolitiTweet.org

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@mr_ooptimistic @HottentotMoral @OttoLaakso @kaschuta yeah i think you'd have to go a pretty long way -- like murder one of my kids or something -- before i'd read your poetry/posts about your wife's passing, then see you trying to get out there again and be like "no go to hell i hope your kids grow up lonely and you die a drunk" — PolitiTweet.org

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@HottentotMoral @OttoLaakso @kaschuta i'm a fucked up person in that i just can't turn on the faucet of acidic personal hatred for people that easily, idk what it is. i get that it's a huge part of using this website and i just struggle with it. most people, even the wicked, are just people — PolitiTweet.org

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@HottentotMoral @OttoLaakso @kaschuta dude's got some extremist, boutique, hothouse political views that i very clearly disagree with -- interviewed him for a piece on the alt-right years ago that was set to run at the village voice before it went under. still a guy whose wife died and was obviously hurt by that — PolitiTweet.org

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@kaschuta yeah i think it's fine, i hope he finds somebody — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nataliesurely: I wrote about how the problem with Theranos wasn’t that the technology didn’t work - it was that it was a bad concept th… — PolitiTweet.org

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@nataliesurely happy happy birthday beautiful lady! — PolitiTweet.org

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@hmmmmmmmmmmmn @DrWomanhattan liz france sounds like liz franczak — PolitiTweet.org