The cake is a lie. It's always a lie.

[Kitkatswing]

I, too, feel your pain. At my store, every time there is something important going on, they bring in one of three things - pizza, cake or cookies. Guess who is the only person in the store who can't eat gluten? So I, too, get that left out feeling, but honestly, I can't really say anything about it. It's a store with a staff of over 80 people, and I am the only person with this problem, so I can't reasonably expect them to do anything else, cause pizza/cake/cookies are cheap, store well, and are easy to get. My only real wish was that they give us some advance notice that they were doing this stuff, so I could bring in something of my own so I didn't have to sit there and watch people eat delicious pizza.

This is my exact problem. I have an allergy to gluten so cannot eat any cakes or pizza or anythign thats brought into the office.

Im just used to it now...

[dragon_wings]

My mother finally got around to send me the recipe:

Grandma Dragon’s Penuche Icing

½ C Butter
1 C Brown Sugar, packed
¼ C Milk
1 ¾ - 2 C SIFTED Confectioner’s Sugar

Melt butter in heavy saucepan; add brown sugar. Boil over low heat 2 minutes stirring constantly. Stir in milk. Bring to a boil and continue stirring. Cool to lukewarm. Gradually add confectioner’s sugar. Beat until thick enough to spread. If icing becomes too stiff, add a little hot water. It is best to use real butter and whole milk.

OMG this icing is soooo good.

[SavageChihuahua]

....better than my job at least. Last time someone got cake, I was tricked into eating it.


It had been baked with weed. =_= I don't eat my coworkers food anymore...

[Flying Grype]

....better than my job at least. Last time someone got cake, I was tricked into eating it.


It had been baked with weed. =_=

Gggghhhh. I have nothing against recreational marijuana use but forcing people to take it is fucked up. There are common prescription medications that are known to interact very badly (sometimes fatally) with THC. I know that because some of them are antidepressants, although not the one I use.

Once at a party I was in the kitchen with some girls who were going to put booze in Sally's drink when she had said she didn't want it. I knew she didn't drink at all, and I wasn't sure if it was religious or medical, but I just told them not to LOUDLY so that Sally could hear what I said from the other room and knew what they were up to. Next time I'll probably be a 'tattletale' more bluntly. I had no idea the people I drank with at the time were that irresponsible.

Know what's in your body and know what else you can put in it, is one of the ways to stay safe when you mess with recreational chemistry. Being fooled into taking something is just, agh. Horror movie wrong.

Is it too late to report the cake incident to your higher-ups?

[AccountingDrone]

Oooh, I'm gonna get some good recipes here, this is awesome. Friendship bread? I lost the old recipe last time I moved, excellent. Buttermilk pie? This is new, and it sounds promising. Hell with it, just send me all the cake/pie recipes, I've got a serious baking jones going on now.

Let me introduce you to Foodgawker ... it is a compendium of food blog postings that people submit. Go to the last page and work your way forward - they keep adding to the front page so you can never get to the last page if you try to start at page 1

Flip through and look at all the spiffy blog postings of food, I have found some new and interesting recipes blogged there, and some variations of stuff I already make. The search engine is stupid and ineffectual, and theoretically you can set it for specific types of entries but it frequently dosnt'w give the right results. [I think whomever is doing the tags is screwing them up?]

[AccountingDrone]

When I was an Admin Assistant I was often in charge of arranging such things. There were people who couldn't eat chocolate or just plain didn't LIKE chocolate for whatever reason...so I think I tried to stick to yellow cakes unless maybe someone specifically requested chocolate. It's hard to remember now but you are hardly the only one who would be very unhappy at never being able to share in the goodies because there's always chocolate involved. I hope your coworker will listen to reason

At my last job, when I started out I was on the phones in customer service. I was the person they asked [and paid for] birthday cakes. The one that was most requested was a knock off of the lemon cake that was featured at Olive Garden. I used to make a recipe and a half version that used 9 inch round pans instead of the standard 8 inch pans. [it was a bitch finding an extra large cake transporter though!]

Only 1 person in 2 years indicated they wanted a chocolate cake. I got a chocolate cake made for me because nobody asked what I wanted. The second year they bought me one of those fruit bouquets instead of getting a cake. I was much happier with that =) They even got me the sugar free chocolate and caramel dips!

[thatcrazyredhead]

There's a recipe at http://customerssuck.com/board/showt...067#post575067.

I think I love you! I'll have to make this soon.

[mharbourgirl]

My mother finally got around to send me the recipe:

Grandma Dragon’s Penuche Icing

½ C Butter
1 C Brown Sugar, packed
¼ C Milk
1 ¾ - 2 C SIFTED Confectioner’s Sugar

Melt butter in heavy saucepan; add brown sugar. Boil over low heat 2 minutes stirring constantly. Stir in milk. Bring to a boil and continue stirring. Cool to lukewarm. Gradually add confectioner’s sugar. Beat until thick enough to spread. If icing becomes too stiff, add a little hot water. It is best to use real butter and whole milk.

OMG this icing is soooo good.

Holy crap. That IS the recipe. OMG that is the best icing in the entire universe. Thank you!

Let me introduce you to Foodgawker ... it is a compendium of food blog postings that people submit. Go to the last page and work your way forward - they keep adding to the front page so you can never get to the last page if you try to start at page 1

Oh man, that was evil. I lost half a DAY there.

And that carrot cake recipe back there, that looks amazing. I'll be trying that in a couple of weeks in my new kitchen.

I love you guys.

[dragon_wings]

Holy crap. That IS the recipe. OMG that is the best icing in the entire universe. Thank you!

Omg I know. Sooooo good. I just couldn't remember what it was called (or more precisely how it was spelled).

[AccountingDrone]

Oh man, that was evil. I lost half a DAY there.



I love you guys.

I am now forward to page 1607 ... and slogging my way towards page 1. I can flip through about 50 pages a day, I save probably 30 or 40 recipes a day onto my hard drive.

[ArcticChicken]

Let me introduce you to Foodgawker ...

Oh. My. God. Foodporn at its finest.

[computeraide]

I tend not to cook the recipes I like to drool over, but speaking of food porn, my favorite site is Food Porn Daily.