traditionally, it was always the entenmann's devil's food with marshmallow icing cake. we only ever bought it on oscar weekend, for oscar night, so i started calling it "oscar cake" and it stuck.
but a few years ago, groceries in canada stopped selling it. (cue: PANIC.) they still sold it in the states, but -- given when the oscars happen: late winter -- we were never in buffalo at the time, and oscar cake only keeps for so long.
in its absence, we started making our own. devil's food cake and a white whoopie-pie filling as the icing. ten times better than entenmann's! :-D
the traditional oscar cake reappeared in stores last year or the year before, can't remember, so we rejoiced and bought one. but it has, once again, vanished completely.
so, yesterday, mom made the cake! :-D (photo coming soon.)
i write for a living, hence the name of the blog. i'm a freelance lifestyle and entertainment writer, and you can find me in assorted print and online publications. one day, hopefully some day soon, i'll be a produced screenwriter. my mother still clings to the hope that i'll develop a sudden interest in medicine or law and get a Real Job™ that doesn't allow one to perform one's duties in pyjamas, but i'd rather write about movies and television and get paid for that. i love cake. i think squirrels are endlessly entertaining. i'm hopelessly addicted to film festivalling and spend far too much time dissecting same. i have a fear of gnomes, leprechauns and porcelain dolls that come to life at night and kill you in your sleep.
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could you please describe the oscar cake.
Who knew there'd be cake, huh Lou?
ah, yes, the oscar cake!
traditionally, it was always the entenmann's devil's food with marshmallow icing cake. we only ever bought it on oscar weekend, for oscar night, so i started calling it "oscar cake" and it stuck.
but a few years ago, groceries in canada stopped selling it. (cue: PANIC.) they still sold it in the states, but -- given when the oscars happen: late winter -- we were never in buffalo at the time, and oscar cake only keeps for so long.
in its absence, we started making our own. devil's food cake and a white whoopie-pie filling as the icing. ten times better than entenmann's! :-D
the traditional oscar cake reappeared in stores last year or the year before, can't remember, so we rejoiced and bought one. but it has, once again, vanished completely.
so, yesterday, mom made the cake! :-D (photo coming soon.)
Never trust anyone who sells DEVIL'S FOOD!!!
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Yu-UM!
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