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The day the Earth went to wank.
Hey! It was Earth day not too long ago! Yay! In celebration of Earth Day, Jen over at Cake Wrecks decides to post about Earth Day related cakes gone horribly wrong.

Jen includes a cake intended to be Spaceship Earth (ETA: that she made, by the way) and makes a joke about it. Fortunately Jen's readership is ready and willing to let her know that the cake is actually Epcot, about 200 times. The comments are wanky, hilarious, and generous amounts of ass kissing towards the end.

This does not bode well with Jen's inner Disney child, and she amends her post with the following:

" To the scores of you telling me this is supposed to be Disney's Epcot Center: Um, yeah, I know. See, the ball at Epcot is called Spaceship Earth, NOT Epcot. Give a Diz Geek a little credit, eh?"

Unfortunately her inner Disney child is still smarting as the next post is provided by her husband, his explanation being...

"Hey everybody. This is john (the hubby of Jen) taking on today's post since Jen is...um...busy. Yeah. So how 'bout that post yesterday, huh? It's like one minute everything's all hunky-dory, and then next thing I know Jen's threatening to strike over something to do with a Disney font. Last I saw, she was on the couch in her memory foam slippers with a pint of Chunky Monkey and watching SGA reruns. I believe her exact words to me were, "YOU write it!!!" And I see the facial tic is back. Greeeaaat."

This, of course, starts a game of finger pointing.

And cake was had by all!

ETA 2: If two posts of butthurt wasn't enough for you, Jen also likes to tweet about it!

Relevant tweets:

# I love you guys. Really, I do. But if ONE MORE PERSON tells me the cake today is the ball from Epcot, so help me, I will not post tomorrow.9:04 AM Apr 28th from web

# No really, for fun, go count how often I'm told you can tell it's Epcot by the Disney font: http://tinyurl.com/d3zrn7 (*headdesk* & repeat!)9:05 AM Apr 28th from web

# In case some of you thought I was making idle threats yesterday: http://tinyurl.com/cgm6fk (Hats off to John for stepping up!)10:03 AM Apr 29th from web

# The comments today are nearly as entertaining as yesterday's. Still, y'all be nice: nobody's an idiot OR a moron, k? Can't we all get along?10:09 AM Apr 29th from web

ETA 3: As pointed out by willywanka, apparently Blogger is responsible for bahleeted comments on Cake Wrecks.

franticallysimple puts it best, "Does this mysterious comment deletion have anything to do with the Epcot Center, now owned by Disney?"

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	platedlizard 2009-04-30 05:16 am UTC (link)
	There's a reason why I usually don't bother reading the comments. Or most of the posts, for that matter. I just look at the funny cakes and try to convince myself that I don't need cake for dinner. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	angstymcgoth 2009-04-30 05:24 am UTC (link)
	I reminisce over what cake used to taste like, back when I could actually eat gluten. /tear (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	platedlizard 2009-04-30 05:28 am UTC (link)
	I feel for you. I can't imagine a life without gluten. It's in everything. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	catmoran 2009-04-30 12:29 pm UTC (link)
	Ow. I suppose gluten-free cake either sucks ass, or costs a fortune? Possibly both at once? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	angstymcgoth 2009-04-30 05:21 pm UTC (link)
	I've found one mix that makes a pretty passable substitute--but yeah, it's expensive, and it makes a "cake" that only ever gets 2-3" high (gluten-free anything doesn't rise the same way regular flour does!) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tintagel 2009-05-04 12:35 pm UTC (link)
	This. Sucks having Coeliac disease. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	m_butterfly 2009-04-30 05:25 pm UTC (link)
	It depends a lot on where you live. It's not impossible in America (if nothing else, I've never had trouble finding gluten-free brownies, which will do in a pinch), but I understand in a lot of Europe you're pretty damn screwed. (Reply to this)(Parent)

Flourless Chocolate cake

stinksap
2009-04-30 01:49 pm UTC (link)

I feel for you. My Niece is Gluten intolerant and adjusting has been a real challenge. Fortunately we have a really Excellent bakery that does Gluten-free on the other side of town, so the occasional indulgence in good gluten free bread and cupcakes happens

I make this for her when I want to do desserts everyone in the family can enjoy. Tecipe is not mine, (It came from Gourmet magazine, November 1997.) But its very easy, uses pantry-staple ingredients, and it's seriously rich and yummy!

FLOURLESS CHOCOLATE CAKE

4 ounces fine-quality bittersweet chocolate (not unsweetened)
1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter
3/4 cup sugar
3 large eggs
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder plus additional for sprinkling

Preheat oven to 375°F and butter an 8-inch round baking pan. Line bottom with a round of wax paper and butter paper.
Chop chocolate into small pieces. In a double boiler or metal bowl set over a saucepan of barely simmering water melt chocolate with butter, stirring, until smooth. Remove top of double boiler or bowl from heat and whisk sugar into chocolate mixture. Add eggs and whisk well. Sift 1/2 cup cocoa powder over chocolate mixture and whisk until just combined. Pour batter into pan and bake in middle of oven 25 minutes, or until top has formed a thin crust. Cool cake in pan on a rack 5 minutes and invert onto a serving plate.
Dust cake with additional cocoa powder and serve with sorbet if desired. (Cake keeps, after being cooled completely, in an airtight container, 1 week.)

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	Re: Flourless Chocolate cake angstymcgoth 2009-04-30 05:35 pm UTC (link)
	Yay, thanks! This looks like a really interesting recipe. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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