{"id":263,"date":"2007-10-22T08:04:32","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T12:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=263"},"modified":"2007-10-22T08:07:34","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T12:07:34","slug":"its-a-major-award-i-won-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"It’s a Major Award. I Won It!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Major AwardMemarielane has presented me with an award (below) for knowing a lot about crotches<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That seems uncannily accurate to me.<\/p>\n

Since we’re on the subject of brownies–and we are, if you squint–here’s a way to spook up your favorite brownie recipe*:<\/p>\n

Brownie Point Award<\/a><\/P>
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  1. Bake brownies in a round pan, such as a layer cake pan or a foil-lined pizza pan.<\/LI>
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  2. When cool, frost with white frosting. A cream cheese frosting like this one<\/a> is nice.<\/LI>
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  3. Use a tube of brown cake-decorating icing to draw a spiral design, starting from the center and working outward. Keep the lines an inch or so apart.<\/LI>
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  4. Starting from the center, drag a toothpick or a butterknife in a straight line out to the edge. Do this at regular intervals around the circle, creating the “struts” of the spiderweb.<\/LI>
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  5. Perch a black gumdrop in the web and give it legs with black licorice whips. Or use red for both, if you want a more festive spider and\/or hate licorice with all of your icy black heart (which is certainly the case with me).<\/LI>
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  6. Snarf down in one sitting. (This step is optional.)<\/LI><\/OL><\/p>\n

    *C’mon, no cheating and using a boxed mix. Brownies are absurdly easy to make. Even easier than cookies, because you don’t have to do anything with little wads of dough. By the time you opened a box and followed the directions you could make some from scratch, and they would be, at conservative estimate, ten zillion times tastier. Here’s a recipe<\/a> to get you started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Memarielane has presented me with an award (below) for knowing a lot about crotches. That seems uncannily accurate to me. Since we’re on the subject of brownies–and we are, if you squint–here’s a way to spook up your favorite brownie recipe*: Bake brownies in a round pan, such as a layer cake pan or a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doom-it-yourself","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}