Chocolate Muffins request! [Thu/Jan/2010 at 10:33pm] bakebakebake [calabaza_azul] Hi bakebakebakers! happy new year! <3 I want your help! I'm looking for a chocolate muffin recipe! well.. I mean, three recipes: chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate chips muffins! I need your very best recipes! please! ;D break of daylight.

Gluten Free Pie Crust [Thu/Jan/2010 at 2:54pm] bakebakebake [norinoricat] ( pie=love ) 020 break of daylight.

David Lebovitz's French Pear & Almond tarte! [Thu/Jan/2010 at 1:16pm] bakebakebake [makethechange] ( Read more... ) 030 break of daylight.

low fat/fat free bread [Thu/Jan/2010 at 5:42pm] bakebakebake [justamy] Does anyone have a good recipe for a fat free (or very low fat) lower calorie basic sandwich yeast bread recipe? Thanks! 060 break of daylight.

Inside out coffee cake [Thu/Jan/2010 at 3:41pm] bakebakebake [googie252] Hello all! I'm a long time reader, first time question asker, hopefully soon to be poster. My mom's birthday is coming up this weekend and would like me to make inside-out coffee cake muffins like my grandma used to make. Unfortunately, my grandma did not write the recipe down and is not around to ask anymore. So, after some internet searching and library combing I have not really come up with anything and thought this might be a good place to ask if anyone has a recipe or has a better "baker's-mind" to go about making this! Thank you(s) in advance! 020 break of daylight.

Gingerbread house! [Fri/Jan/2010 at 7:35am] bakebakebake [angelsandghosts] Hehe. I'm a little late in posting this because Christmas was a little while back. But...gingerbread! ( Enjoy (: ) If you're interested in the gingerbread recipe I used, just ask ^^ 060 break of daylight.

[Thu/Jan/2010 at 11:28am] bakebakebake [ninjasushi] After christmas we had a TON of leftover turkey and I used the last of it up recently while making this awesome pot pie. I think it's the perfect comfort food. ( Pictures under the cut ) 060 break of daylight.

spinach egg bake [Thu/Jan/2010 at 12:11pm] bakebakebake [sleevesofsatin] This recipe utilizes a few of my favorite substitutes and tricks to make something filling, calorie and fat-friendly, and most importantly – delicious! You could call this a crustless quiche or frittata or whatever you like, but since the ratio of veggies to eggs is so tilted, I just call it a spinach egg bake. I love throwing dishes like this together using whatever you have in the fridge, and although I make this version for one, you can easily multiply it and bake it in a bigger dish to feed you plus a few others. Just go with the “omelet” method – cook all the filling ingredients before tossing them into the eggs, but top the entire thing with cheese instead of stirring it in. And for those counting calories – you get the entire bake here for about 375 calories (not kidding!) which I’ve broken down in the recipe below. So enjoy (guilt-free) and celebrate the new you en route! More pics and info at my blog jonesing for...     ( Recipe under the cut... ) 030 break of daylight.

Love Class [Thu/Jan/2010 at 10:10pm] mintyapple [chiryo] ( And three variations. ) 0140 break of daylight.

State of the Goat 2009 [Thu/Jan/2010 at 1:10pm] news [theljstaff] It's been a momentous 12 months here at LiveJournal. We crossed a capital T at Ten years young. And, like most precocious pubescents, we celebrated turning double digits by publishing our first book! Needless to say, we've experienced some major changes, both inside and out. Before we recap, we'd like to thank you for bearing with us as we've struggled through ungainly growth spurts, identity pangs, and, yes, the occasional blemish. We hope you'll continue to stand by us: We're gaining wisdom with maturity. Stuff you liked Back in February, we placed a call for entries for our ten-year anniversary anthology in lj_turns10. In December (less than a year later!), we officially announced the publication of Live Journal: The First Decade. Featuring an inspired collection of writing, photographs, and artwork from the pages of LiveJournal history, the book has been selected by Blurb.com as a top staff pick! We are proud to have played host to so much talent over the years, and we thank our contributors for sharing their extraordinary work. We all love quirky surprises, but not when it comes to managing our account settings. This year we streamlined settings into one central account management area. No more pouring through FAQs to figure out how to control privacy settings, modify notifications, adjust mobile settings, or update contact information! Being users ourselves, we realize our own mothers couldn't find us on LiveJournal based on our usernames and userpics alone (*heaves heavy sigh of relief*). But since there are times when we actually want to be found, we created a search tool--Find Your Friends--to help locate people by email address (it's in the Friends drop-down menu). Spam counter-attack: The war against vicious malware and spambots reigns eternal, but we've been making serious inroads to ensure your online security. We've established new protocols, such as requiring email address validations. We've grown more savvy about ferreting out suspicious behavior. We've added features, like whitelisting, to help you protect your communities. Our valiant (i.e., overworked) spam avengers (a/k/a the LiveJournal ops team) are standing on red alert so you can sleep safely at night. After an intensive beta, we launched My Guests at the end of the year, which lets you see who's been hanging around your journal. A number of you have even discovered secret admirers (not all of whom are creepy)! Last, but by no means least, we want to thank our volunteers for providing invaluable support and feedback. Their Herculean efforts enable us to answer your questions more efficiently, identify spammers, reduce abuse, and deliver better features (through tireless testing). On behalf of the staff and the larger LiveJournal community, we are truly grateful for their diligence, intelligence, loyalty, and passion. You got your fix We recently debugged a number of the oustanding issues with the rich text editor so your entries look great regardless of whether you know html. You can read more about text editors here. In response to user demand, we brought back international voice posting. For more info on voice posting, read here. At long last, we revived TxtLJ with Verizon. For more info on TxtLJ, check out the FAQ. Paid features you enjoyed In December, we introduced My Stats, which provides detailed data on who's been viewing your entries as well as statistics on commenting, RSS requests, friending history, and more. Despite a few early glitches, the response has been extremely favorable. This year, we launched and improved Notes (i.e., the feature formerly known as Alias), which lets you add private comments on friends and commenters (it's in the Profile drop-down menu). This way you won't be caught red-faced when you strain to remember details about that wonderful LiveJournal friend who sent you a birthday vGift. For more info, read the FAQ. When we first announced View friends pages by date, we thought it would be a quiet, minor enhancement. The rave reaction floored us, which made us all very happy. We gave it a fine tuning in February of 2009, so it's even better! How embarrassing! It appears pingbacks have gone back to the shop for service. We’ll keep you posted. We didn't know just much you liked pingbacks until it went in for service. It's back and, judging by your irritation when it wasn't available, this is good news. FYI, pingbacks send instant notifications (via screened comments) whenever someone links to one of your entries on LiveJournal. For more info, read this entry in paidmembers or check out the FAQ. Mixed reviews The search is still on. Some of you have reported getting more comprehensive results for keyword searches using the new Yandex search engine and like the ability to search within content categories (like entries or comments). Others have not been satisfied with the relevancy of search results. Please be patient. We're still tweaking this product. This past December, we wanted to try out a new holiday promotion. Given the crap economy, we decided to offer our Paid/Permanent users a stack of $10 coupons to send to Basic/Plus users for paid account upgrades. We hoped you would like it. And some of you did, but many were disappointed that we didn't offer Give More as well. We want to thank you so much for letting us know. Your input will help us plan better in the future. Just FYI, Paid/Permanent users can continue to send out coupons through January 15th. Coupons can be redeemed through January 31, 2010. We were pretty excited about Your Journal Your Money, which allows Paid/Permanent users to earn extra cash by displaying Google ads to Basic/Plus and logged out users. A number of you tried it. Some of you really like it. Others, not so much. (Just FYI, Paid/Permanent users who do not participate in this program will not view ads on journals. Participants will see ads on their own journal, but won't see them on other journals unless they specifically opt in.) For additional details, visit here. We relaunched m.livejournal.com, our mobile app. While it offers a nicer UI and enhanced functionality, some of you think we can do better on load times. Like most of us, it's a work in progress. You can customize your mobile settings here. For more info, please read the FAQ. Missing Inaction We shudder to bring up the neon purple elephant squatting on our heads, but, yes, we didn't give you those a la carte userpics. We've been making radical improvements to our backend in order to support them. But no excuses. We know you want them. We cringe every time you mention them. We're sorry we dropped the ball on this, and we promise to do our best to get them to you in 2010. Stumbling points Back in early August, we experienced outages related to a series of DDoS attacks. We are proud to report that we were down a total of one hour over the course of a few days. We thank our heroic ops guys for getting us up sooner and more consistently than any of our less fortunate social networking friends. We apologize for leaving you temporarily stranded. A couple of months back, we offered a free, unrestricted vGift, which induced a snowflake cookie avalanche. This resulted in backed up/delayed notifications, which, in turn, led us to reboot systems, rendering scrapbooks unavailable. It took a while to shovel free. Apologies for the inconvenience. We learned a valuable lesson that should keep us calamity-free in the future (fingers crossed while knocking on wood). That darn Best Buy ad. First off, we're sorry about the audio auto-play (we got it turned off as quickly as possible). While it's true that we'll continue to show this type of ad to accounts that normally see them (never to Paid/Permanent accounts), we'll make sure the sound defaults to off moving forward. We promise to do our very best to keep ads to a minimum on LiveJournal, while keeping a roof over Frank's head. Full steam ahead! As we plunge headfirst into the next decade, we want to take a moment to look back and thank all of our employees, both past and present, who have worked so hard to create our unique and magical universe. We couldn't have made it this far without you: Your contributions brighten our path everyday. We also want to extend our heartfelt appreciation to each and every one of you. Whether you've been around for ten days or ten years, your humor, intelligence, talent, and creativity are what makes this the most vibrant global community on the Internet (the best place on the Web, in our humble opinion). Here's hoping that 2010 will be the greatest year yet! We thank you for joining us as we embark upon another glorious decade of LiveJournal history! 02620 break of daylight.

gluten free and spelt help, please. [Thu/Jan/2010 at 8:25am] bakebakebake [falulafer] [ music | oh my sweet carolina - ryan adams. ] hello, you wealth of helpful and resourceful bakers, you. i just started a job (i really mean like just a few days ago) as a baker for an all natural cafe. the owner is a nutritionist so her part of the job is to tell me what she wants and i'm to figure out how to do it. we're going to be baking to accommodate some food allergies, vegans, diabetics, and i'm starting out with gluten free muffins and using spelt flour. i have never ever baked with any gluten free flour! and though it's a lovely environment where they understand that and let me experiment, i could use a little help. are there any tips or crucial knowledge that i should have about making gluten free baked goods? a little more importantly, and separately, does anyone have any tips on baking with spelt flour? in addition to the gf baking, we're also making muffins with spelt flour instead of regular wheat flour. i am not trying to make gluten free food with spelt, to clear up some confusion (sorry). in my experience so far (which is three batches of unsatisfactory muffins), spelt hates to be baked with! i know it has an imbalance of gliadine and glutanine, and the lack of glutanine means the muffins do not hold their shape. i've never baked with spelt either, and my attempts to alter the recipes i've been given haven't been super productive. all my muffins have looked like this: they spread on the sides, cave in the center, and become crust-like on the tops. the recipes i'm using have a lot of oil in them (which i'm working on tweaking) and that makes me think it might be part of the problem, but i do know the spreading and caving is the work of little glutanine. but i don't know how to fix it yet. i'm not sure my boss' stance of mixing spelt with whole wheat flour but i've read that helps. does anybody have any other suggestions? thanks so much, bakebakebakers! honestly any knowledge thrown my way is super helpful and super appreciated. <3 EDIT: dudes and ladies! i understand your concern about the environment i am producing goods i'm calling "gluten free" in, and that's justified. it may not look particularly great on me to say i'm not fully aware of the kitchen i'm working in, but hey. i'm not fully aware of the kitchen i'm working in; i started this job at the beginning of this week. i don't want people thinking there should be alarm because i'm sure my boss has worked hard to create a safe food environment. that said! i'm not meaning to sound accusing and i respect and appreciate everything that's been said in the comments so far and actually i found out some stuff i didn't know. i will do my best to accommodate gluten allergies by being as thorough as i can, but all i can be responsible for is me. thanks. :) 0290 break of daylight.

[Thu/Jan/2010 at 8:27pm] bakebakebake [___tornprincess] Milk Chocolate & Macadamia Nut Cookies From here: http://www.cadbury.com.au/Cadbury-Kitchen/Kids-in-the-Kitchen/Milk-Chocolate-Macadamia-Cookies.aspx Nothing too exciting, but I wanted to recommend this recipe to you all. Simple, tasty and a little different from your average chocolate chip cookie. break of daylight.

Fuusetsu - Flexible Squares [Thu/Jan/2010 at 9:19pm] mintyapple [carisma_sensei] Click the thumbnail to preview the layout. You can use your own header, of course. Size: 440 x 293 NOTE: DO NOT change the header's width on the overrides!! It won't affect how the header looks like, as your header shouldn't cover the whole space~ ( instructions and css ) 0220 break of daylight.

layout 002 : desert girl [Thu/Jan/2010 at 8:37pm] mintyapple [evangelinevio] My second layout :D I hope you guys like it^^ DESERT GIRL Style: Flexible Squares Tested in: Opera, Firefox, Safari Sidebar: yes ( stock layouts ftw <3 ) 070 break of daylight.

2010. 2010.2010 [Thu/Jan/2010 at 5:13pm] runwaycity [magicwunderland] VINTAGE AND MORE IN THE CUT! ( i live for the past ) break of daylight.

Make believe [Tue/Jan/2010 at 12:32am] runwaycity [0opsy_daisy] Top: Esprit Necklace: Korea Bottom: Topshop Scarf: Online Megawatt smile: Everybody has one =D break of daylight.

My second post :> [Wed/Jan/2010 at 1:41pm] runwaycity [chalkfriend] ( CLICK CLICK CLICK (: ) 020 break of daylight.

Christmas Cookies! [Wed/Jan/2010 at 10:47am] bakebakebake [joanneismyname] [ mood | cheerful ] ( christmas cookie time!  ) break of daylight.

question for baby shower cake [Wed/Jan/2010 at 7:54pm] bakebakebake [gunma_gal] Okay, I have two questions for all of you. The first is, what is/are your favorite cake(s) for layering? My mom will be decorating my baby shower cake. She is an excellent cake decorator, but she usually makes the cakes using a box. I figured I'd make the cake (I very, very, very rarely used boxed mixes), but since I'm no decorator, I never really pay attention or care about what will hold up well to layering and/or decorating. She'll probably use fondant. So... my question again, after that explanation, is what cakes hold up well to decorating? My second question is about the actual decor of the cake. Do any of you have any suggestions for a baby shower cake? I'm having a girl. :) Thanks in advance for any suggestions! 030 break of daylight.

[Thu/Jan/2010 at 2:17pm] sgstyle [bo_belle] Hi ladies. Im urgently looking for printed leggings. ya know like those flowery, animal prints, tie dye or the different types of leggings there is. can be offline or online. TIA! 030 break of daylight.

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