Fire in the Sky

It turns out if I'm very, very careful, I can still use my busted lens. It doesn't sound right, though, so more is broken than the coupling. :(

Still, it didn't stop me from trying to capture last night's sunset - I think these look pretty good, but the odd thing is the sky was mostly blue and the sun a bright, bright red-orange. Not sure how to put that to "film", as these all turned out quite different.



( Three more )

I feel less like I ended up on the bottom of a rugby pile today, but still store. Ugh, aging. Still, this was nothing compared to a huge-ass bruise I got a few years ago breaking into my own apartment. That was swollen and sore for a good long time.

Anyway, unrelated to pictures and clumsiness, I'm making attempt one at Cherry Limeade cupcakes. Yesterday I made a cherry pie filling - in place of water, I used kirschwasser. Uhm, yum! It'd make an excellent drunken cherry pie. Hopefully these cupcakes turn out! I'm not sure they're lime-y enough. Time will tell!

Pictures later, if they work out.

Drunken Cherry Limeade Cupcakes

I've seen a ton of cherry limeade cupcake recipes and none of them looked quite like what I wanted. Neither do these. ;) Took my favorite vegan vanilla cupcake and limed it up. Alas, it got a little too wet - I should really have reduced the amount of milk to account for the extra lime juice. Oh, well, they're still highly, highly edible.

( Recipes for drunken cherry pie filling and cake )

The verdict: worth the attempt to remedy the technical errors! I realized in transcribing the recipe that I totally shorted the baking powder and soda when I baked. Whoops.