Stuff It!!!!

This is the famed churpumple!  It is a combination of pies and cakes.  They bake a pie, then put it in a cake and bake that, repeat 2 more times then go nuts with icing.  The peanut butter cup cake I made last month had a cheesecake sandwiched between two cakes, but it wasn't baked into the thing.  So what I want to know is when the hell did we start stuffing pies into cakes?????

And now that the door has been opened, what else are we going to be putting inside cakes in the days to come?

Let me know your ideas, what have you always wanted to find inside a slice of cake?  Give me some good ideas and I will see how it goes....

Baking Failure!

Today I was reading a blog post by Jon Acuff about failing and he basically says that when given the freedom to fail some of the most amazing creative ideas come out.  It's kinda cool to think about it and think back at things I've done in life where I took the freedom to fail.  Last week I exercised that freedom and put together chicken, cheddar, and chocolate for a tasty, alliterative slice of divine genius!  When I worked on helicopters within that freedom I pushed the limits and learned to do things others were scared to try and became better at particular tasks than anybody I knew.  When I was a child my dad gave me and my brother the freedom to fail, and like the lady referenced in Jon's blog, the order to fail when it came to fixing computers.  Because of that, we learned to approach things with a different mindset.  We learned to expect to fail, but to be able to figure out how to fix it anyway.  I remember being in elementary school and having adult relatives call because they couldn't get their computer to work and I was able to talk them through it over the phone, which might not seem like that big of a deal now because most 3rd graders can too now, but that was back before CD ROM's and the internet.  The point is, because I expected to fail occasionally, I became ok with it and learned to thrive in spite of it....baking, building decks, repairing helicopters, starting a business...it all becomes ok when you expect a little failure mixed in with it.

Go try something you're scared of.  You might be surprised at the outcome!