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Candia Books #728

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An essay on Candian architecture by Roland Crayford

The inhabitants have built cute little houses made of gingerbread, waffles and cake. Some of these houses are very small, because the tiny sugar sprites live in them. Others serve as homes for truffles, fruit drops or the larger sugar fairies, but also for fae from Feyrist. The sweet-toothed fauns in particular like to stay in Candia. But whether large or small, all of these dwellings have windows and doors framed with meringue, candy canes as handles and walls decorated with almonds or chocolate beans. Spires made of wafer cones and icing on the roofs with cherries on top are not uncommon. From time to time you will also discover the ruins of such houses in Candia. Then all that is left are waffles or gingerbread that have been nibbled away - eaten in various food cravings. But that's no problem in Candia, because the industrious sugar cube workers and truffle confectioners are ready to quickly build - or rather bake - new accommodations. The sweet dwellings are often surrounded by fences made from candy canes or biscuits. Some are also made from skewers with fresh fruit, often covered in chocolate. 

There is also the magnificent Gingerbread Castle where the Sugar Plum Fairy lives. The Gingerbread Castle is a magnificent sight to behold. Its cinnamon and clove-scented walls and the sugar-glazed windows can be seen from afar. The castle is guarded by loyal gingerbread men and inside the tasty walls lie rooms with fluffy meringue sofas and cotton candy pillows where the queen resides. Beneath the castle you can find the royal bakery, where truffle confectionists create the finest delicacies. There, one can also visit a well cooled room, where the Great Ice Cream Machine produces Candia's scoops. In a cave underneath the castle there are the Hot Milk Springs in a chocolate cave, where a bath house was established.

Light sources in Candia are usually made of rock candy in various colours: blueberry blue, strawberry red, lemon yellow or woodruff green. Thanks to saccharine magic, these lumps or balls, incorporated into lanterns and lamps, begin to glow cosily at night. Candles are also a common sight. In some places they seem to grow out of the ground by themselves, in other places the candy fae have attached them to the walls of their houses. More exclusive are lamps in the shape of ice-cream cones, for example, which are made by the talented sugar fairies. These can often be purchased at festivals such as the Candy Carnival. Streets in Candia most often consist of chocolate bars or white sugar.

There are three predominant architectural styles in Candia: the gingerbread style, the waffle style and the cake style. A particularly outstanding example of the gingerbread style is the Sugar Plum Fairy's Gingerbread Castle. Its high towers stretch as far upwards as the peaks of the Chocolate Mountains. The extensive vaults of the Dessert Dungeon stretch out beneath the castle. Built partly from gingerbread, partly from waffles and partly from chocolate cake, all three architectural styles of Candia are combined here.

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research notes about Candia by Roland Crayford of the Tibian Explorer Society

While Roshamuul is the realm of nightmares and Feyrist arose from the mortals' pleasant dreams, Candia is a realm that arises from the dreams of the Tibian children. When they dream of sweets, which they often do, these dreams take shape here. Although few mortals ever set foot there, it is known to them through numerous fairy tales and stories, under many different names: the Land of Milk and Honey, Candyland, the Land of Cockaigne, the Realm of Sweet Dreams or the Schlauraffen Land. As the name suggests, Candia consists entirely of sweets. Oceans of blueberry and moon melon lemonade meet bright beaches of vanilla sugar that surround the entire island. Moving away from the coast, you enter a soft green land where the grass is made of marzipan and dotted with colourful sugar flowers. Everywhere grow bushes of whipped cream and trees of candy floss, huge lollies and taffy mushrooms. Several mountains rise up inland, made entirely of chocolate, and at their feet lie peaceful lakes of milk and cocoa. 

The becoming of Candia happens through the purest saccharine magic. If you walk to the centre of the island, you will see the Sweet Dreamcatcher, amidst the Peppermint Forest, just south of the Great Milk Lake. It is the centre and anchor of the island and the origin of the magic that draws all the sweet dreams of the Tibian children to it, creating Candia from them. But one has to be careful when approaching the  Great Dreamcatcher. Staring at its spinning centre for too long, may have some side effects like feeling dizzy   or even changing temporarily into a candy creature. 

The road to Candia leads through a large gate in the shape of a purple glazed donut. It is located in Feyrist and also in Candyland, and you can only pass it with a lovingly home-baked key made from gingerbread dough and glazed with raspberry, moon melon and lemon sirup.

Candia's flora is diverse and colourful. A common sight are the candy floss trees, which are mostly pink and light blue in colour. When they bloom, the spun sugar is streaked with hundreds of sprinkles. These then grow into jelly beans, chocolate beans, gummy bears and other sweets, which the inhabitants of Candia love to snack on. Another type of tree are the cream trees, which consist of whipped cream and whose trunks are made of pink-coloured rock candy. Donut trees, on the other hand, consist of numerous donuts stacked on top of each other, often with a cream topping. Peppermint trees are also common, especially in the centre of the island. They can grow very tall and are made of the typical white and red sugar, with playful spiral patterns. Candia's mushrooms can be found above ground, but often also in the caves under the Chocolate Mountains, consisting of sugar, taffy or marzipan. Colourful lollies in all shapes and flavours are also a common sight on Candia. They form the lollipop fields, where the fruit drops in particular like to hang out. Huge strawberries, often decorated with chocolate or cream, grow in many places on the island, and marizpan carrots are particularly popular with the taffy bunnies.

Like the other inhabitants, Candia's animals are made of sweets. The butterflies, for example, have wings made of the most delicate wafer paper imaginable. They hover over the sugar flowers, from which they suck nectar as well as cocoa. Some snails are made of cinnamon rolls, others have houses made of coloured sugar. Sometimes the larger specimens are harnessed to sledges full of sweets as beasts of burden - the inhabitants of Candia usually have time on their hands. The peppermint spider is known for weaving webs of spun sugar and spins its prey into dense candy floss. Popular pets are the taffy bunnies, pink rabbits that are very trusting and easy to tame.

There is much more I need to write down, but at the moment I'm bloated with sweets. I have to take a nap.
s2ward commented 2 months ago

You see a nightsky cupcake recipe. It weighs 1.00 oz. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1207944993654710352/1252252910234894378/Nightsky_Cupcake_Recipe.gif?ex=66e78927&is=66e637a7&hm=9f1eb4f5457898bee1a09a5c1a59869b08c72a0eb1b66ee621d25849022b072e&

Nightsky Cupcakes Recipe

Ingredients

¼ cup butter, softened
¾ cup sugar
¼ cup vegetable oil
2 large eggs, room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1¼ cups all-purpose flour
1½ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup whole milk, room temperature
black food gel
teal food gel
fuchsia food gel
purple food gel

for the frosting:

1 cup butter, softened
3 cups powdered sugar
4-6 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
royal blue food gel
black food gel
teal food gel
fuchsia food gel
purple food gel

for the toppings:

galaxy sprinkles
glitter stars in silver
moon and star decorations

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a muffin pan with plain white paper cupcake liners. Set aside.
Mix together butter and sugar. Mix in the oil and vanilla extract, then add the eggs one at a time.
Combine the flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl. Slowly add half of the mixture. Then add half the milk, and combine. Add the remaining dry mixture, then the rest of the milk, and mix.
Split the batter into four small bowls.
Colour one with black food gel and mix until combined. Add purple food gel to another bowl to make purple batter, then teal to another and fuchsia to the remaining bowl.
Spoon small blobs of each colour to each cupcake liner, filling the liners ¾ full.
Bake for 20-23 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean. Allow to cool completely.

While cupcakes cool, prepare the frosting: Add room temperature butter to a large mixing bowl and mix until a creamy consistency is reached.
Add powdered sugar, cream, and vanilla extract and mix for one minute and 30 seconds.
Divide the frosting in the following way: 1/2 of the frosting into a bowl, then add 1/3 of the remaining frosting each into 3 separate bowls.
Add 2 drops black food gel and 4 drops royal blue food gel into the bowl with 1/2 of the frosting. Mix until well combined.
Next, add teal, fuchsia, and purple each into the remaining bowls separately. Mix until well combined.
Transfer each of the frosting colours to their own piping bags without tips. Lay out a piece of wrap, cut the ends of each bag, and pipe long rows of each colour of frosting side-by-side onto wrap.
Roll up the frosting into a log, and twist one end and cut the tip off. Insert the log into a piping bag, cut end down, then core each cupcake.
Fill with sprinkles and top the cavity with the removed piece of cupcake.
Frost swirls of frosting on top of the cupcakes starting from the centre and work your way outwards.
Sprinkle each cupcake over with glitter stars in silver, and top off with moon and star icing decorations.

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Rainbow Waffles Recipe

Ingredients

2 cups all purpose flour
2 tbsp sugar
4 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
1 ½ cups milk
2 eggs
6 tbsp butter, melted
1 tsp vanilla extract
yellow, green, purple, orange, red, and blue food colouring gel
whipped cream
rainbow sprinkles

Instructions

Preheat waffle iron and spray it with cooking spray (if your iron requires it).
In a large bowl combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt and whisk to combine.
Warm the milk up for just 1 minute. In a separate small bowl whisk the eggs and stir in the warm milk, melted butter and vanilla extract. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and whisk until blended.
Separate waffle batter into six bowls. Add a couple drops of food colouring gel to each bowl and mix until you get your six rainbow colours: yellow, green, purple, orange, red, and blue.
To make the waffles neater, add the batter into pastry bags, or ziplock bags and snip the corner.
Add one colour to the centre, and continue adding colours until all are used.
Cook waffle according to your waffle maker directions.
Remove and allow to slightly cool. Break in half, decorate with whipped cream and rainbow sprinkles.

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Rose Milk Cake Recipe

ingredients for cake

1 + ½ cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup yogurt
½ teaspoon baking soda
¾ cup castor sugar
½ cup vegetable oil
¼ tsp kewra extract
1 tbsp rooh afza
 red food gel

ingredients for soak

½ cup condensed milk
½ fresh cream
1 + ½ cup milk
4 tbsp rooh afza
whipping cream
chopped pistachios
dried rose petals
gold leaf

Instructions

Pre-heat oven to 180 degree and line a rectangular pan with parchment paper.
In a bowl add the yogurt, sprinkle baking soda over it and set it aside to foam up.
Add the castor sugar, oil and rooh afza into the same bowl and mix until well combined.
Gently sift in the flour and baking powder and mix until everything is well combined and there are no large flour pockets in the batter. Add in the food gel and mix. Do not over mix at this stage.
Transfer the batter to the prepared cake pan.
Bake at 180 degree for 30-35 minutes or only until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean.
While the cake is baking, make the milk mixture by combing milk, fresh cream, condensed milk and rooh afza. After the cake is baked, trim the top and pour the milk liquid on the cake and tilt the pan so that the milk covers the entire cake.
Let it cool for one hour.
After one hour, demould the cake from the pan. Top with whipped cream, pistachios and rose petals and serve!

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Matcha Turtles Recipe

Ingredients 

1/2 cup tahini (smooth)
1/2 cup maple sirup
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup fine oat flour
1/4 cup fine almond flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1-2 tsp ceremonial grade matcha powder

Instructions 

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with a piece of parchment paper.
In a large bowl, combine maple sirup, tahini and vanilla extract until completely smooth.
Next, sift in oat flour, almond flour and baking powder and use a spatula to mix until a dough forms. The dough should be workable and shapeable, so add oat flour by the tablespoon as needed.
Set aside a third of the dough (to create the head, legs and turtle tail) and sift in matcha powder into the remaining dough. 
Roll tablespoon sized scoops of your matcha dough into balls and pat down into cookie shapes. For each turtle cookie, roll small balls of plain dough to create a head, tail and arms/legs. Gently press together to bond. Finally, take a knife to create a cross hatch pattern on the turtle shell. Use a chopstick or other tool to poke eyeballs into the head.
Finally, bake for 8-10 minutes, keeping in mind the cookies will firm up after baking. Let cool before enjoying.