Ok, Kim.....now, even though I LOVE white cake and white frosting.......I did do an experiment a few years ago. I made a white cake, in a 9X13 pan......made a cooked fudge frosting (1c. sugar, 1/4 c. cocoa, 2 T butter, 2 T shortening, 1/3 c. milk, and 1 tsp vanilla...combine all ingredients in saucepan (except vanilla), bring to boil, boil 2 minutes, cool a bit, add vanilla and pour onto cake, or use for hot fudge sundaes (YUM)). anyway......I made my white cake.....poured hot fudge frosting....let the whole thing cool, and then topped it with butter cream frosting......and holy crap.......it was like candy. Now, it didn't fix my cake need (white and white), but it surely killed my chocolate craving. Wow, I am super passionate about my cake
Screw the crab I want that cake! That sounds way way way too good.
Reminds me of the cookies I used to make in college, 1 roll of slice and bake dough, 1 roll of chocolate chip cookie dough, layered with a bag of milk chocolate chips and a bag of baking M & M's. They were the stressed out student's dream.
Then again, those on top of the daily fry habit might explain why I graduated in a size 20.
Megan - easing up on my diet coke addiction has been really tough. Actually the sodium isn't as bad as I initially thought, but I keep reading about how this soda is just wreaking havoc on my bone density. Wanna hear the wierd thing I do now....if I have a diet coke (16 oz can/bottle/soda fountain), I have to have a 500 mg calcium tablet to counteract the calcium that this diet drink is doing to my system. So, to all you scientists out there (aka Nicole), does this make any sense to you? I've cut way back on my diet cola drinks and drink a lot of water and even get an occasional iced tea now vs diet coke at the drive through....do you think taking the calcium is a good way to counter-balance the bad?
Diet Coke Plus and Coke Zero have a little less sodium - 40mg. The Diet Coke Plus also has 25% of your daily B6 and B12 and some Niacin and magnesium as well. Tastes pretty good too! :-)
Megan - easing up on my diet coke addiction has been really tough. Actually the sodium isn't as bad as I initially thought, but I keep reading about how this soda is just wreaking havoc on my bone density. Wanna hear the wierd thing I do now....if I have a diet coke (16 oz can/bottle/soda fountain), I have to have a 500 mg calcium tablet to counteract the calcium that this diet drink is doing to my system. So, to all you scientists out there (aka Nicole), does this make any sense to you? I've cut way back on my diet cola drinks and drink a lot of water and even get an occasional iced tea now vs diet coke at the drive through....do you think taking the calcium is a good way to counter-balance the bad?
Joni....this is so very interesting. I would think the best thing you can do to prevent osteoporosis, no matter what the causes, would still be weight bearing exercise. No matter how much calcium you take in, if you do not create the small little stress fractures, from weight bearing exercise, in your bones, you have no way to absorb the wonderful calcium supplements that you are taking. The only times our bones actually store calcium in our bones after childhood is at the onset of menstration and during pregnacy. Other than that, the only time we can absorb it into our bones is when they need repair. I just have to find some info on this correlation to diet cola drinks and bone loss.......it is quite intriguing.
oh, and debbie........I was very bad this weekend, and made that cake, but with chocolate cake and fudge and white frosting....don't worry, you didn't miss anything, it was just awful. LOL.
Yeah.. Just like the buttercream frosted, chocolate mousse filled cake we had for our soccer team party yesterday.. Just awful..
And now it's sitting on a table barely 15 feet away from me.. Think I'll take it down to the lunch room here in a while, now that my office mates have had their fill...
