NRHQ’s podcast studio has witnessed plenty of strange events, but probably none was so odd as the day I frosted a cake in there. The cake, a peanut-butter-and-chocolate one, was for a departing co-worker, and I’d bought a hand mixer to help me get the job done. It, the cake, had sat in the office fridge overnight, and now there I was, at some ridiculously early hour, standing in the podcast studio beating heavy cream, sugar, and cocoa powder into something spreadable. Why I didn’t do it in the NR kitchen, I’ll never know, and I still can’t believe the inestimable Jack Fowler didn’t come investigate the whirring noise emanating from the room near his desk.
All this to say, five years later, that hand mixer is still going strong, and it saved my bacon during my recent weekend macaron-baking spree.
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