Almond Poppy Seed Cake!

My housemate's mom is visiting so I thought I'd make a bit of dessert.  I also had loads of poppy seeds from a pea patty experiment so I went with almond poppy seed cake.  I don't really care for lemon.  The almond works really well with the poppy seeds though.  The recipe I took it from called it bars, but its cake.  It also has a glaze that I think turned out more like frosting due to the large amount of powdered sugar.  It taste good with the frosting like topping though.  I got the recipe from Alrecipes.dom, which is a convenient site for easy recipes.

Here you see the cake and the frosting.

here you have both the cake and the icing

And here is a slice of delicious, but heavy cake.

its much richer than it looks

Yum!

Mr. Funky's Super Crochet Wonderful

I love crocheting.  Its easy and you can make neat stuff.  I got bored of scarves really fast and I just don't have the patients for afghans etc.  This led me to seek out new and interesting patterns.  I already posted about the really neat zombie I made, but not all toys need to be creep.  Mr. Funky's Super Crochet Wonderful is a great book with a lot of very simple stuffed animal patterns and some scarves, hats etc.  I've made quite a few patterns from it.

For instance these awesome hamsters for my friends Colleen and Jon!

Crochet Hamster Colleen and Jon!