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Creson, Fren

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2-19-2025 
2025-02-05 Dormiliciouse: Rose Chocolate Cake 
Fren Creson 
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chocolate-cake/
Dormiliciouse: Rose Chocolate
Cake
Fern Creson, Staff Reporter
For my friend’s 22nd birthday, they had a deep-sea themed
party. Guests were dressed in elaborate costumes, dressed
as everything from an angler fish to a sardine. Every
birthday party I’m invited to, I jump on the opportunity to
make the cake. I love experimenting with flavors and
decorations; a welcome opportunity to show off the baking
skills I acquired over my middle-school baking
hyperfixation. Rose and chocolate might sound like a super
scary combo, but ask anyone at that party and I bet they
would vouch for it. 
Tools:
Whisk, Hand or Stand Electric Mixer
Large Bowl
Oven
Cake Pans
Frosting Devices: Spoon and knife, ziplock or piping bag and tip. 
Ingredients:
Chocolate Cake:
2 Boxes of Chocolate Cake Mix
Eggs
Oil
Water
Coffee (instant)
Rose Frosting
2 Sticks of Salted Butter
Powdered Sugar
Vanilla Extract
Rose Extract 
Food Dye and Decorations (optional)
Recipe:
Chocolate Cake
Fern Creson
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Oil two cake pans then dump a tablespoon of flour into it, rotating the pan around
until it has coated both the bottom and sides of each pan. This helps your cake come out easily without breakage.
Make your chocolate cake mix according to the packaging but instead of water, use coffee by adding a few spoonfuls of instant
coffee to your directed measurement of warm water. Adding coffee to chocolate cake intensifies the chocolate flavor. You can’t
taste the coffee unless you know it’s there, giving box cake mix the boost it desperately needs. 
Pour the batter evenly into two pans and plop them into the oven for however long directed by the box’s directions, checking the
cake with a chopstick for doneness.
Once your cake is baked, allow it to cool before leveling the top with a knife. Once cooled, get your cakes out of the pans by sliding a
knife around the edges, placing a large plate or baking sheet on top, flipping it over, and tapping it out. 
Rose Frosting
Buttercream frosting is a labor of love. There’s really no comparing homemade frosting to store bought. This process is made
exponentially easier by using a stand or hand electric mixer. Unfortunately for my friends, I don’t have one, and therefore forced
them to take turns helping me whisk the butter by hand. 
Begin by beating your butter for about 5 minutes on high speed if you have an electric mixer, or just whisking by hand for eons, until
the butter becomes light in color and fluffy. Your butter must be softened to room temperature! Hard or cool butter will not work,
neither will melt. 
Sift a cup of powdered sugar into the butter and beat again, repeating this step until your frosting is your desired sweetness. I used
about 3 cups.
Add a teaspoon of both vanilla and rose extract. Beat to incorporate, taste, and add more extract to taste. 
Add your desired coloring; In my case, that good Red-40 and Yellow-2, ending up with a coral color. 
Stack the cakes with a layer of frosting in between. Frost your cake roughly with a butter knife, angled spatula, or the back of a
spoon. Add detail with a piping tip and bag, or by cutting the corner of a ziplock bag. Set your piping bag or ziplock into a tall glass,
scooping the frosting into it and tapping the air bubbles out. Decorate your cake as desired. For my friend’s deep-sea party, I made it
look like a coral creature with eye details and pearl sprinkles. 
Blow out the candles, slice it up, and share! Happy Birthday Kit! 


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2025-02-05 Dormiliciouse: Rose Chocolate Cake

Bechtold, Dannie Jo

Fragments 
Volume 62 Interlude Article 15 
2020 
Tender Creature 
Dannie Jo Bechtold 
Seattle University 
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Tender Creature 
Danni Jo Bechtold 
 
 
We are an extension of our mothers. 
Their love is curled up inside of us 
Just waiting to unfurl and cascade into all of our dusty corners. 
My mother is a tender creature. 
She’s always shooting into her body 
Just so the world will stop beating her, 
The way the waves break against cliffs. 
I carry her pale blue eyes and roaring laughter. 
I wish she lived in my ribcage so I could keep an eye on her 
But instead she is staggering. 
What do you do when your heart is beating outside of your body? 
My mother is a peach just starting to soften 
and I choke on my anger at the cruelty of this world. 
She has been mauled and misremembered, 
Gutted and gagged and left hardly breathing all the years of my life. 
 
There’s a version of her I never met: 
She’s valedictorian, she’s off to a university 
She’s driving to Montana just for one summer. 
 
 
Loving her is like breathing with one lung 
Of course I’ll keep taking in air 
But I’m lightheaded 
Close to fainting 
I cannot climb any mountains 
Or spend too long underwater 
She has one lung and I have one lung and it’s all we can do to keep breathing. 
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She is sleeping it off. 
The icy wind whips all around her 
Her temperature drops too low this Montana winter and 
I’m jostled awake, states apart from her, 
Her, my beating heart, 
And I am shivering. 
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Tender Creature

Jondonovan, Pia

Fragments 
Volume 62 Interlude Article 20 
2020 
Swimming 
Pia Jondonovan 
Seattle University 
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Campbell, Ella

Fragments 
Volume 62 Interlude Article 32 
2020 
Midnight 
Ella Campbell 
Seattle University 
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Campbell, Ella (2020) "Midnight," Fragments: Vol. 62, Article 32. 
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Payne, Cameron

Fragments 
Volume 62 Interlude Article 30 
2020 
a note to the stop sign on my chest 
Cameron Payne 
Seattle University 
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a note to the stop sign on my chest

Carlos, Margery

Fragments 
Volume 62 Interlude Article 31 
2020 
Untitled 
Margery Carlos 
Seattle University 
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