Emmiekitten

In October, we released our Solderless Flickery Flame project, based on a tiny breadboard with six red and yellow candle-flicker LEDs, to give a fun and semi-realistic flame effect. Today, we’re releasing two new Flickery Flame Soldering Kits along the same lines, each of which has 6 candle-flicker LEDs, a little circuit board, and a battery holder.

The Yellow/Red kit has the same mix of yellow and red candle-flicker LEDs that works so well in the breadboard kit.  This one will look great in a jack-o-lantern, luminaria, or scale-model fireplace.

On the other hand, the White/Warm White kit has a mixture of (cool) white and warm white LEDs that give a modern wintery flame effect that has at least as much charm, but won’t be mistaken for a natural fire. This one will look great in all kinds of winter holiday decorations, luminarias, and props.

Both the Yellow/Red and White/Warm White kits are fun, low-cost, self-contained, and easy soldering kits, which will be right at home both as stocking stuffers and as bite-size first projects for soldering workshops.

What the what??? This came about because Mandi noticed the texture of sabra reminded her of cake frosting. She asked me to make her a carrot cake that we could frost with the hummus. It obviously had to be a savory cake to work with the super savory hummus. It actually came out pretty tasty! The cake was really flavorful and was almost the texture of a dense pancake. The carrot and curry really came through, and melded well with the hummus. I initially imagined this as a brunch dish, but it's more of a cool and unique app for hummus lovers.

The cake is easy, just put a bunch of stuff into a bowl and mix it.

Veggies next.

If you get tired, you could always just dump this into a frying pan and make a fritata. But no! Lets keep going!

That's the texture you are looking for.

Thin cakes.

I wanted this to be a nice small and tall cake to fit the appetizer motief.

Stackin.

Hummus works suprisingly well as an icing.

Fun stuff!

The seeds and chives really added a nice texture and flavor to round the whole thing out and add a little freshness.

This wacky cake would be the hit of a tea-time themed lunch (that's a thing right?) or a fun gift to a hummus lover.

3 eggs
1 Tablespoon sugar
2 oz goat cheese
2 oz hummus
1 cup shredded carrot
1 cup shredded zucchini
1 teaspoon chile flake
2 teaspoons curry powder
1 1/4 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Hummus for icing, sunflower seeds, chives

Whisk the sugar into the eggs until it lightens in color slightly, about 2 minutes. Whisk in the cheese and hummus until smooth. Whisk in the carrot and zucchini. I didn't really squeeze liquid out of the veggies as recipes sometimes do, but I did leave the excess liquid on the cutting board. Next dump in the flour and add the baking powder, baking soda, curry, chile, and salt Use a clean spatchula to lightly mix the other dry ingredients into the flour, just to spread it all out a little before you mix it all together. Finally reach deep and fold everything together until just combined. Dole out the batter into two greased and lined 9" cake pans. Bake at 350 for about 20 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean.

Cut out the smaller rounds from the cakes and stack with hummus in between each layer. Finally ice the whole cake and top with chives and sunflower seeds.