{"id":2294,"date":"2010-02-17T02:02:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T07:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=2294"},"modified":"2010-02-17T02:41:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T07:41:40","slug":"a-winning-pair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=2294","title":{"rendered":"a winning pair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it takes a bit of experimentation to find the right combination. This week has given me two instances of that.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, in addition to my inability to measure properly (a skill I believe 2nd graders routinely master), I also was having a tough time finding the right needle to match the yarn I was using to get gauge. Today, however, looks like we have a winner, so I&#8217;ll be moving forward with my Knitting Olympics sweater (Hey, Teach! was the ultimate winner. Thanks for all your input on Friday and Saturday while I was trying to figure it out.) on US10s. They feel like I&#8217;m trying to knit with drumsticks after my tiny sock needles, but I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll get used to them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/4364109173\/\" title=\"Birthday Table by kkfea, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2726\/4364109173_9beb6b9d99_m.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Birthday Table\" align=right hspace=3 vspace=3 \/><\/a>Back on Sunday, I decided to try a new recipe for my birthday cupcakes. I knew I wanted a plain vanilla recipe, since I have a friend who doesn&#8217;t like fruit and I prefer vanilla to chocolate. So I ended up giving Stephanie&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/awhiskandaspoon.com\/2009\/10\/30\/vanilla-cupcakes-with-vanilla-frosting\/\">Vanilla Cupcakes with Vanilla Frosting<\/a> a shot. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s because our baking powder is a bit old, if I didn&#8217;t cream the butter and sugar together long enough, or if I ultimately used too much sour cream (or some combination of any or all), but these cupcakes did not get the Burrow stamp of approval. The cakes were too dense (<a href=\"http:\/\/sweetpeasgarden.wordpress.com\">Sarah<\/a> accurately described them as pound-cake-like) and the frosting too sweet for the base it was layered on. Sarah and John are good sports and didn&#8217;t complain about my baking abilities on my birthday, but Rudi and I agreed after they left that this had not been my best culinary effort.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/4364851310\/\" title=\"Tweaked Cupcakes by kkfea, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2726\/4364851310_6c0afd53d7_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Tweaked Cupcakes\" align=left hspace=3 vspace=3 \/><\/a>When Danny called later that night, I mentioned my failure to him and suggested that I&#8217;d have to come up with some alternative for the remaining cakes. He said that pound cake always made him want chocolate to dip it into, which made me realize that a chocolate glaze might be the perfect solution. Since Rudi and I were out last night, we didn&#8217;t have a chance to try out this theory until this evening, when I found this <a href=\"http:\/\/allrecipes.com\/Recipe\/Satiny-Chocolate-Glaze\/Detail.aspx\">Satiny Chocolate Glaze<\/a> on my first click through Google. I made a few alterations &#8212; the microwave as a few folks suggested, slightly more chocolate to use up five squares of dark chocolate, and dark corn syrup instead of light &#8212; and less than a minute later, we were spooning the concoction over two heart-shaped fairy cakes.<\/p>\n<p>And you know what? It was the absolute right combination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it takes a bit of experimentation to find the right combination. This week has given me two instances of that. 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