Inventive Baking Ideas Sought for Imaginary Cookies (A Mostly Nonsense Post)

[radiantfracture]

Do you anxiety bake? Does stirring batter induce a soothing flow state in you? Me too!

I also love autogenerated and random language poetry. I don't know what the connection might be. Anyway, here's a mostly nonsensical project.

I'd really quite like to derive real recipes for the imaginary cookies generated by the AI in the latest AI Weirdness post, particularly the following:

• Lord's Honey Fight (which sounds DELICIOUS)
• Fluffin Coffee Drops
• Quitterbread Bars (v. Harry Pottery)
• Merry Hunga Poppers
• Hand Buttersacks
• Hallowy Maples (also delicious)
• Apricot Dream Moles

If a recipe arises that seems workable, I will undertake to make it over the winter break and post the results.

Any thoughts or inspirations? How do the names work for you as prompts for sense-images and baking algorithms?






(All images originally from AI Weirdness)

First Reflections on Imaginary Cookies

The drawing in the post for Lord's Honey Fight shows a sort of cinnamon-roll-esque device. I think that's clever, but I'm not sure it's grand enough for a Lord's Honey Fight. Might that be a big pan of bars like a delicious, delicious field of mediaeval battle?

I'm thinking Fluffin Coffee Drops could be whipped shortbread with coffee flavouring. (I don't love whipped shortbread, but with coffee and a flurky name, maybe.)

Hallowy maples I see more or less as just a dish of cookie full of maple syrup. Maybe maple butter tarts (a real thing I had once and have never forgotten).

I was actually given a jar of homemade apricot jam that seems ideal for Apricot Dream Moles.

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Comments

[intertext]

I had exactly the same Harry Potter response to Quitterbread Bars! And mmm maple butter tarts sound wonderful

[radiantfracture]

Would Quitterbread bars be something you made with yeast, as in you started to make bread and then quit halfway through and made bars?

[marycatelli]

I think it's bars that you quit whatever you're doing to eat.

[derien]

They've got to be somewhat breadlike bars, though.

[marycatelli]

Why? Mincemeat isn't like meat, and neither is a sweatmeat. It's sweetbreads that are meat.

[radiantfracture]

I don't quite fancy a dessert made with pancreas.

Although

{Googles "pancreas dessert"}

No.

...one that's pancreas-friendly would be all right. Even desirable.

N.B. Mincemeat did originally contain actual meat. So the SuperSizers tell me.

[derien]

My grandfather used to make real mincemeat, with venison.

[radiantfracture]

I think it's bars that you quit whatever you're doing to eat.

Elegantly done.

In my case that would involve chocolate, then, though our illustrator seems to imagine, I dunno, white cake and butterscotch? Mango? Orange?

[elusis]

No, Quitterbread Bars are clearly pieces of Wonderbread, spread with chocolate icing from a can, slapped together, cut into "bars," and handed to your kid because who can be arsed to actually bake anyway?