Darn Those Vegans

Pineapple Spice Pudding Cake

Adapted from Allrecipes.com.

Tasty, but not all that exciting. I think the problem was that I overbaked it, so the pudding on the bottom all dried up and it was just a spice cake. The ingredients are so dirt cheap that I might try it again. This recipe uses less sugar than the Allrecipes version, which was definitely a good idea, and if I was to do it again I think I'd up the butter content and add vanilla.

2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 white sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cloves
1 tsp allspice
1 tsp nutmeg
1 cup milk

1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
1 1/2 cups water
1 tbsp butter

1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1 can pineapple rings

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease the bottom of a 9" square baking dish. Bring brown sugar, water, and butter to a boil in a saucepan.

Meanwhile, combine flour, white sugar, baking powder, spices and salt, then stir in milk. Once it's well-mixed, stir in walnuts. Pour into baking dish. Pour the hot sugar mixture over that. It'll look gross, but don't worry.

Top with pineapple rings in a pretty pattern. Bake 35-40 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. You definitely want to use secondary containment here – look how that sugary mess bubbled all over the pan.

Enjoy!

Witches

Eh-heh-heh!

Second Law of Metafictional Thermodynamics

Oh, my gosh, so true. I love blowing stuff up in my stories.

Jack of Kinrowan

Meh. "Fairies in Ottawa" is all you need to know. That was the book's schtick, and that's about all there was to the plot, too.

Keeps Me Awake at Night

The Confederacy of Heaven: Coming in 2010 to a Theater Near You

Hey, everybody. I've got a few announcements to make.

First of all, is that I've been playing around with Wordpress to see if I can get a blog with a more professional look. I like what I see over there, so you can probably expect Steam Trains and Ghosts to migrate over to Wordpress sometime this winter. In the meantime, posting here is going to continue as normal.

Second is that I'm going to be releasing Grizelda as an e-book with the folks over at Smashwords.com. They're cool folks with author-friendly policies. I haven't got a specific timetable on that yet, but I'll keep you posted.

Finally, here's the big deal: My sophomore literary effort, The Confederacy of Heaven, will hit the Internet in fall of 2010, barring it getting picked up by a traditional agent. It's a post-apocalyptic tale about a drought that's sucking the life out of the world. Nasan Rattlingbones has been exiled from her nomad clan and left to die in the desert. There a sprite called Oscar cons her into becoming a reluctant heroine. A very reluctant heroine. When Nasan finds out what Oscar is really up to, heads will roll.