What Shall We Bake Today?

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In honor of Easter coming up this month, I found a carrot shaped cake! 

Ingredients

Cake

1 box carrot cake mix with pudding in the mix

Water, oil and eggs called for on cake mix box

Green and orange gel food color

Frosting

1 package (8 oz) cream cheese, softened

1/4 cup butter, softened

2 to 3 teaspoons milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

4 cups powdered sugar

Instructions

Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). Spray 1 (9 x 5-inch) loaf pan with cooking spray. Line bottom of pan with parchment paper. Place paper baking cup in each of 9 regular-size muffin cups.

Make cake mix as directed on box using water, oil and eggs. Pour 2 1/2 cups of batter in loaf pan; pour remaining batter evenly into muffin cups. Bake loaf 40 minutes; bake cupcakes 20 minutes. Cool loaf in pan 5 minutes; remove cake from loaf pan and cupcakes to cooling racks. Cool cupcakes and loaf completely, about 1 hour.

Using long serrated knife, trim triangle-shaped piece from corners of one end of loaf; reserve pieces. With knife, round corners of other short end of loaf.

For the frosting: in large bowl, beat cream cheese, butter, milk and vanilla with electric mixer on low speed until smooth. Gradually beat in powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, on low speed until frosting is smooth and spreadable. In small bowl, mix 1/2 cup frosting with green color until desired color. In large bowl, mix remaining frosting and orange color until desired color.

Bring reserved cut edges together at the bottom of cake to form carrot tip. Hold together with some of the orange frosting. Use remaining orange frosting to frost carrot. Use green frosting to make the carrot top. Use remaining orange and green frosting to create carrots and carrot tops on cupcakes. Serve cupcakes with cake.

Pat’s Note: Although this recipe uses a carrot cake mix, I have substituted my own homemade carrot cake recipe and it turned out just fine, so the choice is yours.

Enjoy!

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  1. 1954 Ford F100

    1969 Pontiac GTO Ram Air IV

    1999 Shelby Series 1

    1957 Chevy 150 Utility Sedan

    2002 Chevy Camaro Z28

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  2. “American influencer arrested after leaving can of Coke for ultra-remote Indian Ocean tribe”

    Not The Bee, Edward Teach, Apr 5, 2025

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Influencers usually do silly things. Sometimes they do dumb things. And then sometimes they do suicidally idiotic things:

    Social media influencers pose a ‘new and increasing threat’ for uncontacted indigenous people, a charity has warned after the arrest of a US tourist who travelled to a restricted Indian Ocean island.

    Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, allegedly landed on North Sentinel Island in an apparent attempt to make contact with the isolated Sentinelese tribe, filming his visit and leaving a can of coke and a coconut on the shore.

    Rolling onto an island of homicidal tribesmen like:

    Seriously — the “Sentinelese,” the ancient inhabitants of North Sentinel Island, are known to be at times violent and even murderous toward visitors. They have had “minimal contact with outsiders and [have] usually been hostile to those who approach or land on the island.”

    In 2006 the tribe killed two fishermen who had drifted too close to the island, while in 2018 they murdered Christian missionary John Allen Chau, who had come to the island to spread the Gospel:

    He attempted to sing worship songs to them, and spoke to them in Xhosa, after which they often fell silent, while other attempts to communicate ended with them bursting into laughter. … Eventually, according to Chau’s last letter, when he tried to hand over fish and gifts, a boy shot a metal-headed arrow that pierced the Bible he was holding in front of his chest, after which he retreated again.

    On his final visit, on 17 November, Chau instructed the fishermen to leave without him. The fishermen later saw the islanders dragging Chau’s body, and the next day they saw his body on the shore.

    So I’m kinda dubious that this guy, of all people, would have any luck in facing off against a tribe of killers:

    To be sure, it looks like this guy likes to invade these types of places as part of his influencer brand:

    The genius allegedly “blew a whistle off the shore of the island in a bid to attract the attention of the tribe for about an hour” before leaving his weird gifts, recording a video, and dipping out.

    Sounds like he might be in a little trouble over there in India:

    Andaman and Nicobar Islands’ police chief HGS Dhaliwal told news agency AFP that ‘an American citizen’ had been presented before the local court and was remanded for three days for ‘further interrogation.’

    I’d say the dude got off lucky all things considered!”

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  3. Huh….first time I’ve heard about this – you, Pat? Was this picture just posted recently? Looks a little familiar….

    EXCERPT: “We’re all familiar with the legends of Bigfoot, aka Sasquatch, aka a dozen other names. Bigfoot has one thing in common with a lot of other mysterious critters, like the Loch Ness Monster, the chupacabra, and the rational Democrat: They don’t exist.

    That doesn’t mean that sightings don’t keep cropping up. Now, in Pennsylvania, there would appear to be a miniature-sized Bigfoot variant, one that is fond of stealing apples. This critter is known not as Littlefoot but as the Albatwitch. 

    Early one February morning in 2002, Rick Fisher was driving down Route 23 toward Marietta, Pennsylvania, when he saw what he thought was a child standing in the middle of the road. He slowed, planning to help—until he got close enough to see this was no child, or at least not a human one. The figure was about five feet tall, stick thin, and covered in dark hair. Fisher turned on his high beams to get a better look. The creature turned around, staring at Fisher with yellow eyes, then vanished.

    Residents of Pennsylvania’s Lancaster and York counties might recognize this hairy hominid as the Albatwitch, a local legend that Fisher says has been spotted in the area since the 1800s. The earliest accounts came from picnickers enjoying Chickies Rock, a cliff overlooking the Susquehanna River. They reported that strange, hairy creatures stole their apples then threw the eaten cores back at them.

    As usual, you can color me skeptical. My grandfather used to swear up and down that he spoke with and knew personally every squirrel on his farm, and while my cousins and I were welcome to hunt rabbits and pheasants there, we were forbidden to shoot squirrels. 

    But then, his squirrels didn’t steal apples.

    In fact, the Albatwitch legend may have just the opposite economic effect for the people around that part of Pennsylvania.

    Though similar creatures have been spotted elsewhere, Columbia [a town in Lancaster county] has claimed the Albatwitch as its hometown cryptid and celebrates it every fall with Albatwitch Day. Fisher, who started the event with Vera in 2014, says he was inspired to throw a local cryptid celebration after lecturing at the Mothman Festival in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. The Albatwitch fest has grown with each passing year, bringing together more than 5,000 people from across the United States in 2024.

    Fisher is proud of how the festival has grown, though he doesn’t take full credit for its popularity. “It’s not me doing it, it’s the people who come and support it every year,” Fisher says. The reasons people attend the festival vary. Some come to celebrate a local legend, while others have had strange sightings of their own and attend the festival to share notes on their encounters. Along with enjoying lectures, live music, food, and cryptid-themed goods for sale, Albatwitch Day attendees can take trolley tours up to Chickies Rock—with apples in hand—to try and catch their own glimpse of the elusive creature. During a trolley tour at the 2017 Albatwitch Day, Vera says that a group saw five sets of red, glowing eyes moving from tree to tree, watching their trolley pass.

    OK, I think I see what’s going on here…..”

    https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/04/06/meet-the-albatwitch-pennsylvanias-little-bigfoot-n2187560

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      1. LOL – nope! But I have a French door fridge, w/the freezer on the bottom and I don’t leave it open long enough.

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  8. EXCERPT: “….In short, the suspect stabbed seven kids, ages eight to 16, then the police ended the threat by shooting the attacker. It seems the one fatality being reported was the attacker, though the small handful of reports on the subject at this time are lacking in specifics.

    This seems to be a domestic violence situation, but it doesn’t really matter to me simply because anyone who would hurt a child deserves whatever happens to them from then on.

    Being given hollow-point therapy is just fine with me.

    We do not know how severe the injuries are, though. Everyone could potentially make a full recovery and it be no big deal. However, based on this post on X, I’m skeptical the injuries could, in any way, be considered “minor.”

    https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/04/06/breaking-at-least-7-stabbed-in-brooklyn-n1228215

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  10. “A ground crewman loads .50cal ammunition into the roof turret of a B-29, 1945”

    “Breguet 521 Bizerte,a military version of the Be 530 Saigon commercial aircraft. 30 were built for French navy and some flew with the Luftwaffe after June 1940.”

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  11. “Regular or diesel?”

    Norway

    “Shoulda taken up ping-pong instead….”

    “Cool use of old railway spikes”

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  15. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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