What's your pantry stocked with?

[petra]

Not just "What's in your fridge?" but "What's in your emergency supplies?"

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[petra]

Isomalt is one of those things I have watched people play with -- primarily on the Great British Bake Off -- but have never been brave enough to mess with on my own. How did decorating the cake with it go?

[via_ostiense]

I did two practice runs at making an isomalt sail (i.e. an abstract, blown glass-looking thing to plop on top of a cake like a fascinator) and decided that making one good enough that I'd be ok putting it on my friends' cake would require more practice than I wanted to put in. (I also was torn about it to begin with, because I think that every element of a cake should taste good, and isomalt decorations are purely for show.) It's not actually too difficult, but I wanted to prioritize getting the frosting decorating correct.

[petra]

Ah, that explains why you have so much left over. I hope you enjoyed the experimenting, anyway.

[via_ostiense]

Yep. It's only about a pound and a half left, but I need to figure out something to do with it. I suppose now's the time to practice making sails again, since there will probably be lots of celebratory cake when quarantine ends.