With friends like these....

With friends like these.... Apparently my buddy Jon up in Detroit is trying get me into trouble and deserves a horrible evil smackdown....

From: Jennie Breeden
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 1:16 PM
To: Barron, Jon
Subject: Re: Hehehe...you've got to see this

Wow! thanks so much for showing that to me. It's awesome! I wouldn't even pretend to send him a cease and desist order.

That is just too cool

thanks
jennieB
www.thedevilspanties.com
www.geebasonparade.com

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On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Barron, Jon wrote:

Jennie,

'ello, long time webcomic admirer and got hooked by a friend of mine that you just happen to know. It is this mutual friend of ours that I feel compelled to share something with you that I think you'll get a kick out of.

First, his name is Sam McClanahan and he is the husband of the couple that three or four years ago dropped of that huge freaken basket of chocolate goodies for you at DragonCon that you were so kind to include them in your webcomic doing just that. I believe that your choice words at the time were "Holy crap!" :) In any case, Sam is on this cake making kick now and well...check this out:

http://samthegiant.blogspot.com/2008/09/chocolate-jennie.html

I hope you get a laugh out of it as I did. If you want to play a joke on him, I'm a network admin at a law firm up here in Detroit and I'm sure I could get any number of attorney friends of mine to draw up fake cease and desist orders if you'd like to pull one over on Sam.

Keep up the good work!!

Jon Barron

Wilton Discover Cake Decorating – Course 1 - Class 2

Adventure 080923

A three hour cake decorating class after a ten hour work day makes Sam a very tired boy, but I'm pretty happy about how my first Wilton Method cake turned out.

Wilton Discover Cake Decorating – Course 1 - Class 2 prep

Experiment 080921

I made two major mistakes in my prep work for the second Wilton class session.

1. I forgot the eggs in the Dream Whip cake recipe (with extra 1/4 cup oil) my instructor suggested until after I had mixed the other ingredients.
   
2. I forgot that I needed to add extra water to the Class Buttercream Icing recipe to use it to frost the cake until after I had finished.... Despite the fact that it was REALLY hard to frost....
   

The Wilton instructor suggested using this recipe with the addition of 1/4 cup oil. It turned out very tasty.

Note the lack of eggs. D'oh!

Whee! Vanilla Crisco flavored sugar!

Yes, I have to make sure everything is on the counter before starting. It's a compulsion.

The finished cake looks pretty good but was incredibly time consuming. I'm thinking that even knowing that I messed up the icing, the way to go here is to frost the cake like normal and then use a tub of the Wilton Decorating icing.

Caught up at last!!!

Double W00t!!! I've uploaded the last of the back-log and am caught up at last!

Move complete!

W00t!!! I've completed the move to Blogger from my old Sam's Evil Adventure & Experiment Log vanity page! Now to see if the Blogger tools and ease of access will allow me to catch up on the back-log and help me keep this updated....