Friends Advent Calendar - Day 10
Posted by MeganL,
The last two days have featured a duck and a drone. Will we have a third consecutive day of a "d" theme? Will we find more purple? Will we still be in Santa's workshop? So much to find out in our tenth day of the advent calendar.
Ooooh, it's a table of treats! Okay, not a "d" word - unless you count "delicacy". This must be a snacking area for the elves, who must operate solely on sugar. I see four kinds of cookies here - shortbread, thumbprints, chocolate chip, and a meringue. Maybe this is where Santa brings all the cookies he collects on Christmas Eve? There's only so much the red suited gent would be able to eat, I imagine.
The build reminds me of the Elves colour scheme, which I rather like a lot. At 21 pieces (including spares), this ties with the hearth as the weightiest build yet. Alas, I'm not sure that we can count the transparent 1x2 pink plates as being purple, so our purple streak ends for now. But....there are four kinds of cookies!
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I suppose the plain cookies were added out of budgetary motives, but they look really bad besides the printed ones - should have included a full set.
I agree with shortbread & chocolate chip cookie, but I'd identify the other two as a cupcake and jam ring :)
Ooh, dastries! Uh, the “p” is in a sugar coma at the moment...
@CCC:
What’s this got to do with the boat from Flushed Away?
Yep, that's a 'Jam Ring', a variant of the 'Jammie Dodger'.
(It's a double-layered semi-hard biscuit (cookie) with a round or heart-shaped hole in the top layer that shows the raspberry jam (jelly) sandwich filling. The 'Jam Ring' has a further cream layer below the jam).
And yes, I'm on the side that thinks the big one is a massively over-iced (frosted) cup-cake!
Dodger, Jammy
Wow. I'd hate to see the blood sugar levels of those poor elves ... if this is their working conditions, they really should unionise.
@Zordboy - they're not human though! Small creatures need high-energy foods. They're probably more like voles, with sky-high heart-rates and brief but furiously frantic lifespans.
The third D day is for Display, which this clearly is ..
@CCC said:
"Not bad today, and the brown tray is definitely better than just attaching them all to the table top. I would have preferred a couple ore printed ones compared to the plain (shortbread ones). You can never have too many jammie dodgers."
Especially not if you're the Eleventh Doctor.
@Joefish:
There was a Treehouse of Horror episode of The Simpsons where one of the characters gets turned into a half-human/half-hummingbird, and exclaims that he has to drink his (human-sized) body weight in nectar every hour or die. He didn’t even come close to succeeding...
@PurpleDave said:
" @Joefish:
There was a Treehouse of Horror episode of The Simpsons where one of the characters gets turned into a half-human/half-hummingbird, and exclaims that he has to drink his (human-sized) body weight in nectar every hour or die. He didn’t even come close to succeeding..."
If you can call simpsons humans...
Should have been a 2x4 instead of two 1x4s, it was a bit fiddly to put together
Coulda had donuts...
When I saw it I thought it was a cookie/biscuit icing station and the plain coloured plates were simply waiting to be iced by the 'cupcake' (acting as the icing)...but that's just me!
"D" is obviously for desserts! Agreed that the one with the pink top is probably a cupcake, and the plain round tiles are shortbread. Looks like a nice assortment to me! (Of course, at the moment I'm mostly getting by on hard sugar candies, myself!)