Tahrey: This would have been up earlier but i couldn't get the stupid photos to transfer from my phone to computer then Internet. Managed to get this one of of it directly at least. Source will be updated once I've got the other shots uploaded to Imgur.
Anyway, it's still December 9th in Australia, and possibly Hawai'i. Or something. It's not the 10th everywhere in the world yet, is what i mean, and it was still the 9th in the US when I made the damn things.
Also I've been away on family visits in foreign climes, not had much Internet, and seem to have picked up some horrible disease whilst there which has lead to me sleeping about 13 hours of the day and feeling a bit unable to do anything besides drag myself to work and back, so go easy :/ ...i was going to draw a Laputa-inspired compact-story mural on the stripped wall in my bathroom, for future residents to discover after themselves stripping away whatever gets pasted on top of it, but simply didn't have the energy to achieve anything more than a daft smiley face.
Dunno if they're even edible yet, made them from a forgotten bake-your-own-Disney-princess-cookies pack I picked up on clearance because it was cheaper and easier than making cookie dough from scratch. I assume it keeps for a few weeks at least whilst sealed. We'll soon find out, as I made a baker's dozen, kept one side for my dear sweet mother, and have brought the rest into work to share. Maybe they'll be nice. Maybe disgusting. Maybe deadly. Who knows!? It's going to be a culinary adventure.
Please note the glace cherries acting as authentically coloured and shaped eyes, the subtle headfins, and how you could also pretend they were either khajiits who have overused their eye of fear abilities, pac man's evil mutant cousins, or happy fun juice grapes that have gone decidedly mouldy. Also the complete lack of ricepaper and food-dye Princess stickers, or awful cheap icing paste, for full authenticity.
Also, above average mead. Sadly I have neither the outfit nor photographic equipment / accomplices to play dressup and get a photo of myself holding the tray and bottle...
Eating: @Tahrey:
>"it's still December 9th in Australia"
I'm afraid we're on the other side of the International Date Line; it's 8:30 PM of the 10th. http://i.imgur.com/BjbtzWs.png
Tahrey: SHITTING FUCK
Imgur mobile web edition is just the worst
Second attempt at trying to upload, after it popped up the stupid "uploading is quicker and easier with the app" thingy, it actually went through, made an album, but didn't offer me the expected ability to edit the titles and captions. Whilst trying to find whether there was an option to do that, somehow it sent me back, popped up that same stupid screen again, and when I cancelled that away, I was back at the upload prompt ... and couldn't go "forwards" to the album again. Maybe the URL will be in my history. IDK yet. Hopefully.
Yes, uploading must be quicker and easier in the app, because it presumably won't have STUPID ADVERTS FOR THE APP POPPING UP AND GETTING IN THE WAY
Tahrey: ...ok, found it. No edit options even with the desktop version any more (which I'm sure you're supposed to get even if not logged in, so long as you're on the same IP...), but screw it, it'll do. I'll just caption it here instead.
Link: http://imgur.com/a/I7Rmy
They are at least at a more sensibly viewable size on there, but for some reason have been presented in reverse order vs how I told it to upload them. I have no idea why, I can only assume that it's been programmed to be as retarded and backwards as humanly possible. Soooo, from the *bottom upwards*:
1. After flouring the cutting board and rolling pin, extracting the now somewhat crumbly dough, wetting and working it a little, then rolling out (something of a messy and frustrating affair as the dough was in a strange state of crumbling yet being sticky at the same time), cutting the shapes with the least appropriate thing ever (a cheap champagne flute as it's the only item I had, including actual cookie cutters, that was remotely the right size) and a knife for the mouths, using the scraps to make headfins and cutting up/applying the cherries, we have the assembled cookies ready for ovening. Interlaced like so to try and preclude the odd mutant expansion suffered by others that messed up the mouth shapes. At this point I was still considering whether or not to do *something* with the strangely low-diversity princess stickers (don't Disney have at *least* 12 of them by now?). Think I'll make some fairy cakes and stick them on there instead. Also, this was basically the sum total working space as the whole kitchen is in a bit of a state right now. And yeah it was pretty dark.
2. Closeup on the argonookies. This should have been landscape. I don't know what happened. Witness their continued crumbliness.
3. Checking them when the shorter of the prescribed times was up. Look almost done, so leaving to rest in a hot but open/turned off oven. Also, discovering that my oven light has burned out.
4. Happily the phone flash still works.
5. I had originally intended to have a shower whilst they were being ovened (can't really call this "baking" :p), but instead ended up doing this as it took a surprisingly long time to print a three-word label and stick it onto a bottle of white wine. Still showered afterwards, don't worry. I'm clean. Today. The white thing on the coffee jar is the icing that came with the dough, I've not been applying thermal paste to CPUs in my kitchen. This year.
6. Fully ovened! And lined up on a tray. I was going to have them just resting on the bare tray, as that's more authentically full-authenticity authentic, but the pattern proved to clash rather badly and made the cookies themselves hard to see. Bit weird, but there you go. Had to be the gingham tea-towel instead. 13th one has been exiled to the sticker area because it is bad luck and must be ritually shunned by all the other cookies in order to restore balance to the force. After this it was secured in the regular biscuit barrel so that it could be properly contained and protected. Quite pleased with how they all came out, but the final proof will be in the eating.
7. Had further trouble figuring out how to properly present them. Eventually the hallway leading to the kitchen proved best, with the divider curtain suitably taped up to form a drapery background. Bit dull though.
8. Flash on. There's better. Bottle's all nice and glowy. Though the bickies now look darker, so the best combination would probably be to copy and paste the glowing bottle into the no-flash picture instead.
There. Done. We will speak of it no more, except to reply to any further thirdparty comments and/or update on their deliciousness/poisonousness. Ss.
Tahrey: ah balls. so only now do i see that the winners were already announced.
*shakes tiny fist*
damn you, Kaz
;)
Never mind that it seems I completely missed the whole idea of it and made probably the *LEAST* creative cookies that I possibly could have, being straight copies of those in the comic itself. Plain round ones with the princess stickers on would have probably scored higher.
Still, Dan is a very worthy winner, not least for how much his entry made me cringe with revulsion, something which is surely 100% in the Prequel spirit.
Tahrey: Update: they have made it to the workplace cookie tin, alongside someone's kid's attempt at... Farmyard shapes i guess? Or maybe dinosaurs. I'm sure the one i took was a gingerbread llama...
http://imgur.com/GmVNKyt
11 in there, and i tried one myself. Not the most amazing flavour in the world, but perfectly alright. ISO Biscuit, really. Somewhat crunchy though, more biscuit than cookie, guess I should have erred on the shorter side of the cooking time given my oven is often a bit over eager. Didn't burn them at least.
Describe This Image As Dramatically As Possible
- Reply
Anyway, it's still December 9th in Australia, and possibly Hawai'i. Or something. It's not the 10th everywhere in the world yet, is what i mean, and it was still the 9th in the US when I made the damn things.
Also I've been away on family visits in foreign climes, not had much Internet, and seem to have picked up some horrible disease whilst there which has lead to me sleeping about 13 hours of the day and feeling a bit unable to do anything besides drag myself to work and back, so go easy :/ ...i was going to draw a Laputa-inspired compact-story mural on the stripped wall in my bathroom, for future residents to discover after themselves stripping away whatever gets pasted on top of it, but simply didn't have the energy to achieve anything more than a daft smiley face.
Dunno if they're even edible yet, made them from a forgotten bake-your-own-Disney-princess-cookies pack I picked up on clearance because it was cheaper and easier than making cookie dough from scratch. I assume it keeps for a few weeks at least whilst sealed. We'll soon find out, as I made a baker's dozen, kept one side for my dear sweet mother, and have brought the rest into work to share. Maybe they'll be nice. Maybe disgusting. Maybe deadly. Who knows!? It's going to be a culinary adventure.
Please note the glace cherries acting as authentically coloured and shaped eyes, the subtle headfins, and how you could also pretend they were either khajiits who have overused their eye of fear abilities, pac man's evil mutant cousins, or happy fun juice grapes that have gone decidedly mouldy. Also the complete lack of ricepaper and food-dye Princess stickers, or awful cheap icing paste, for full authenticity.
Also, above average mead. Sadly I have neither the outfit nor photographic equipment / accomplices to play dressup and get a photo of myself holding the tray and bottle...
- Reply
- Reply
>"it's still December 9th in Australia"
I'm afraid we're on the other side of the International Date Line; it's 8:30 PM of the 10th. http://i.imgur.com/BjbtzWs.png
Hawai'i is still a go though. Enjoy that mead.
- Reply
- Reply
I'm imguring right now, it's been a bit of a trial but things are allegedly uploading.
- Reply
Imgur mobile web edition is just the worst
Second attempt at trying to upload, after it popped up the stupid "uploading is quicker and easier with the app" thingy, it actually went through, made an album, but didn't offer me the expected ability to edit the titles and captions. Whilst trying to find whether there was an option to do that, somehow it sent me back, popped up that same stupid screen again, and when I cancelled that away, I was back at the upload prompt ... and couldn't go "forwards" to the album again. Maybe the URL will be in my history. IDK yet. Hopefully.
Yes, uploading must be quicker and easier in the app, because it presumably won't have STUPID ADVERTS FOR THE APP POPPING UP AND GETTING IN THE WAY
- Reply
Link: http://imgur.com/a/I7Rmy
They are at least at a more sensibly viewable size on there, but for some reason have been presented in reverse order vs how I told it to upload them. I have no idea why, I can only assume that it's been programmed to be as retarded and backwards as humanly possible. Soooo, from the *bottom upwards*:
1. After flouring the cutting board and rolling pin, extracting the now somewhat crumbly dough, wetting and working it a little, then rolling out (something of a messy and frustrating affair as the dough was in a strange state of crumbling yet being sticky at the same time), cutting the shapes with the least appropriate thing ever (a cheap champagne flute as it's the only item I had, including actual cookie cutters, that was remotely the right size) and a knife for the mouths, using the scraps to make headfins and cutting up/applying the cherries, we have the assembled cookies ready for ovening. Interlaced like so to try and preclude the odd mutant expansion suffered by others that messed up the mouth shapes. At this point I was still considering whether or not to do *something* with the strangely low-diversity princess stickers (don't Disney have at *least* 12 of them by now?). Think I'll make some fairy cakes and stick them on there instead. Also, this was basically the sum total working space as the whole kitchen is in a bit of a state right now. And yeah it was pretty dark.
2. Closeup on the argonookies. This should have been landscape. I don't know what happened. Witness their continued crumbliness.
3. Checking them when the shorter of the prescribed times was up. Look almost done, so leaving to rest in a hot but open/turned off oven. Also, discovering that my oven light has burned out.
4. Happily the phone flash still works.
5. I had originally intended to have a shower whilst they were being ovened (can't really call this "baking" :p), but instead ended up doing this as it took a surprisingly long time to print a three-word label and stick it onto a bottle of white wine. Still showered afterwards, don't worry. I'm clean. Today. The white thing on the coffee jar is the icing that came with the dough, I've not been applying thermal paste to CPUs in my kitchen. This year.
6. Fully ovened! And lined up on a tray. I was going to have them just resting on the bare tray, as that's more authentically full-authenticity authentic, but the pattern proved to clash rather badly and made the cookies themselves hard to see. Bit weird, but there you go. Had to be the gingham tea-towel instead. 13th one has been exiled to the sticker area because it is bad luck and must be ritually shunned by all the other cookies in order to restore balance to the force. After this it was secured in the regular biscuit barrel so that it could be properly contained and protected. Quite pleased with how they all came out, but the final proof will be in the eating.
7. Had further trouble figuring out how to properly present them. Eventually the hallway leading to the kitchen proved best, with the divider curtain suitably taped up to form a drapery background. Bit dull though.
8. Flash on. There's better. Bottle's all nice and glowy. Though the bickies now look darker, so the best combination would probably be to copy and paste the glowing bottle into the no-flash picture instead.
There. Done. We will speak of it no more, except to reply to any further thirdparty comments and/or update on their deliciousness/poisonousness. Ss.
- Reply
*shakes tiny fist*
damn you, Kaz
;)
Never mind that it seems I completely missed the whole idea of it and made probably the *LEAST* creative cookies that I possibly could have, being straight copies of those in the comic itself. Plain round ones with the princess stickers on would have probably scored higher.
Still, Dan is a very worthy winner, not least for how much his entry made me cringe with revulsion, something which is surely 100% in the Prequel spirit.
The pictures were good too I guess.
- Reply
http://imgur.com/GmVNKyt
11 in there, and i tried one myself. Not the most amazing flavour in the world, but perfectly alright. ISO Biscuit, really. Somewhat crunchy though, more biscuit than cookie, guess I should have erred on the shorter side of the cooking time given my oven is often a bit over eager. Didn't burn them at least.