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Wow!! That woman has talent with marzipan. I've made a few basic fruits and leaves from marzipan but nothing even remotely artistic. That cake is genuine artistry.
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It's a cool cake, to be sure... but a wedding cake? What kind of geek would you have to be to have a Discworld themed wedding?
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Fruitcake is a traditional wedding cake. In addition, it is a dense cake, which is good when you are sticking dowels in at angles with elephants molded on top of them to support the world.
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Meh. I've only read about a dozen of the novels, but so far I would say it is highly overrated. And yeah, I know that some are much better than others, and that the earliest ones written are not the best, but I don't know that I can agree with that blanket statement.
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"Fruitcake is a traditional wedding cake. In addition..."
...ya can store a few slices from your wedding, and they'll be as good as ever at your 50th anniversary.
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Several of the ones I've read have been hilarious. I loved Equal Rites and the books focusing on Death (particularly Mort). I read the Wyrd Sisters after taking a class on Shakespeare, so that one was also a riot. The ones I've read with Rincewind, I could take or leave.
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My boyfriend is a big Terry Pratchett fan - until I started dating him, I'd never heard of TP. I've read a handful of Discworld books, and I've liked them okay, but they're not my favorite or anything. Every time I've started one, I've felt lost from the beginning, like I'm starting in the middle of something. I'm always caught up by the end of the book and all of the ends are nicely woven in, but I really don't like the initial confusion I experience in every one of Pratchett's books.
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quote:Originally posted by aspectre: "Fruitcake is a traditional wedding cake. In addition..."
...ya can store a few slices from your wedding, and they'll be as good as ever at your 50th anniversary.
You say that in jest, but since it's such a moist, yet dense cake, it does indeed freeze well. Wedding fruitcakes are not usually soaked in liquor like many Christmas fruitcakes, and so have a shorter shelf life but are a little lighter and don't taste like you held up a bar and dumped all the loot in your mixing bowl.
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Reminds me too of "Brief History of Time" when Hawking tells a story of a scientist talking about the solar system and getting interupted by an old lady saying the Earth looked like that cake. When the scientist, smiling, asked the woman what was under the turtle she said "Your very clever young man, very clever. But there's turtles all the way down". Posts: 4953 | Registered: Jan 2004
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Wedding fruitcakes are not usually soaked in liquor like many Christmas fruitcakes, and so have a shorter shelf life but are a little lighter and don't taste like you held up a bar and dumped all the loot in your mixing bowl. [/QB]
Mmm, bar-loot fruit cake.
(Actually, we had bourbon pound cake for one layer of our wedding cake - even more booze than christmas cakes!)
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