The milk-and-cookies cake Roxane Gay swears by

The recipe is NOT FOR EVERYONE. If you are a white man, PLEASE DO NOT FOLLOW IT.

[quote]Gay resists thinking of cake, or any food for that matter, as a “guilty pleasure.” The writer, who, with its subtitle, described her best-selling 2017 book, “Hunger,” as “A Memoir of (My) Body,” has worked with her nutritionist to [bold]“separate value judgments from food,”[/bold] she said. “She’s a big proponent of intuitive eating, which I find to be a very useful framework,” Gay explained. “[bold]Very broadly, it means you eat what you want.[/bold] And you only eat until you’re full, and then you stop. That way you never feel deprived and you don’t overindulge, and you trust your body when it tells you what it wants or needs. I think it’s just a very sane way of thinking about food.”

Her body is a testament to that philosophy.

[quote] As for the cakes themselves, Gay has been studiously taste-testing different recipes over the past two years. She’s even developed a few of her own, including those for a “coffee/cake” (brown sugar layer cake, mocha buttercream filling, vanilla buttercream frosting) as well as a “blueberry pancakes” confection (vanilla cake, blueberry cream cheese filling, maple buttercream frosting). “Those are going in my imaginary cookbook,” Gay said.

So many sugary buttercream options to shove down her gullet!

Her smile is creepy, I never noticed that before.

[quote] Hence, Gay does not limit cake creation and consumption to birthdays or special occasions. Eat it whenever you want, she encourages.

Words fail me.

That’s good news for the rest of us.

At their tasteful Omaha home, which they decorated herself, I met the lovely internationally renowned Twitter scold , Roxane Gay . . .

"I love to eat everything. There's nothing I like better than stuffing my pie-hole."

Roxane nibbled a humble cake and gulped down a gallon of sweet tea.

"I like to eat my weight in food ."

It's hard to believe that Roxane is weighs 500lbs She looks so thin….so thin….thin….

"I only eat until I feel full. I trust (my) body. Because I am an empowered woman, public intellectual, and highly influential influencer. Yes, I never actually feel full, but I'm one of the lucky few who never gain weight, no matter how much I never actually feel full."

Her ass is as wide as the oven behind her.

I did not consent to the EMOTIONAL LABOR of reading these replies.

Why not feature the woman who actually created the cake that Gay adapted? The Times food section loves its dilettantes.

Because they wanted to see what we would say if they said Roxane made it, r11.

I WILL make my own cake and yes, I WILL eat it too.

[quote] Eat it whenever you want, she encourages.

In the shower?

I have to say it looks delish, I’m a sucker for buttercream.

R7 - I saw your post at work and ended up crying with laughter. They think I'm a fool, but it was worth it. Marry me!

THIS is not what Donna Summer intended when she sang about leaving her cake out in the rain!

I love that her nutritionist has agreed it's okay for her to eat cake all the time whenever she feels like it.

That's what nutrition is all about!

Should DL's fat whores rebrand as "intuitive eaters"??

That intuitive eating thing is so weird, but it's probably meant for people who eat healthy food. Sugary, processed food is designed to not fill people up, but clearly Roxane heard "eat all you can stomach" and ran with it!

I laughed at her refusing to name Amazon, because it's like, if you have a problem with them, why bring them up at all? It seems very on brand for her.

Intuitive eating will kill more people than COVID.

What will all the "obesity is healthy!" SJWs do as one by one their symbols of empowerment keel over from heart attacks, diabetes, etc? Will they finally realize they were duped?

Recipes are oppressive.

R22, that is a good question!

I really don't get the point of the Times' Roxane Gay cooking series. She's not a professional chef and she's not the creator of these recipes; as she herself admits, they're borrowed from elsewhere, and she makes only the slightest adjustments to them. And though she is famous for her writing, she doesn't write these pieces, either.

Does the Times think that Gay has some sort of irrestible charisma that will cause aspirational readers to flock to this series? Or that the Roxane Gay brand is so powerful that it doesn't matter that they're promoting her for doing something (cooking) for which she has no particular talent or expertise?

And yeah, there's the weight thing. A big part of what professional foodies and chefs are selling are an image and a brand. And while it's not exactly off-brand for a professional cook to be overweight (see: Julia Child and many others), being several hundred pounds overweight, as Gay is, is something else altogether. Do they think that readers looking for tasty, reasonably healthy recipes are going to ignore the hyperobesity of the person promoting them?

I just don't get it and I don't see why the Times seems to think this woman is so dazzling. Even her writing is boring and mediocre, but at least there's a proven audience for that (several of her books have been best-sellers). But the marketplace for professional cooks and food writers is already oversaturated with countless others who are far more skilled and creative at it than Roxane Gay is.

I continue to subscribe to the Times because of its up-to-date coverage of the war in Ukraine. I also like its more reasonable conservative columnists. I re-subscribed after years of not during the Covid lockdown. Before I got free access at work.

But...I continually feel it, and the elite it represents and who run it, have lost their collective minds. I simply don't understand the reason for a column like this.

[quote]I really don't get the point of the Times' Roxane Gay cooking series. She's not a professional chef and she's not the creator of these recipes; as she herself admits, they're borrowed from elsewhere, and she makes only the slightest adjustments to them.

I totally agree, and think the same every time I see her cooking for the Times. Plus, she doesn't ever seem that excited or interested in doing it. She was marginally more enthusiastic in this one, but the one where she made tomato soup and toasted cheese she just seemed miserable.

The whole thing is very odd.

Her smile is definitely sinister, R4. Looking at the smile, I imagine that she's laced the cake with arsenic and mixed in a few dozen needles and will now serve the cake to her local branch of the Republican Party.

What’s next? The homemade methamphetamine this drug addict swears by?

She has a nastiness to her that so many don't see (or choose not to see).

[quote]That intuitive eating thing is so weird, but it's probably meant for people who eat healthy food.

Oh it absolutely is, definitely. I remember it being a big thing for a while in the 1990s, and I'm about Roxane's age so I'm sure that's when she first heard it, too, but it was never about eating cookies 'n' cream cake "intuitively," it was about making reasonably decent choices and eating until you were full.

There was also talk along with it about how some people had been shown in studies to just never feel full, which today is known as leptin resistance but didn't have a name back then, if I recall.

LMAO. The way she spun "intuitive eating" (a largely very healthy practice to moderate weight and food issues) and twisted it to mean she's listening to her body (and her body wants to stuff itself with cake)............... The Times ain't shit for keeping that in and embarrassing her like that!!!! Dead.

R32, she's untouchable. Nothing she says will get her ridiculed by the good and beautiful people.

Roxanne is a personality. It is as simple as that. (DL tells me she's a grating personality, but that's beside the point.)

She's a personality that starts conversations, and it's pretty obvious that what r32 describes is part of why the NYT likes her. They know people are reading these articles to laugh at this 300-lbs woman saying she eats a 12-lbs cake "intuitively."

SHE MUST SWEAR A LOT!

“I shall at my cake NOW so I do not have to eat it THEN.”

Her apron looks like two cats fighting in a paper bag.

^ The best thing about that apron is the fact that the sloping bits (coming down from the neck) on either side are meant to go under each arm but, in Roxane's case, the slope is on her enormous chest.

[quote]I love that her nutritionist has agreed it's okay for her to eat cake all the time whenever she feels like it. That's what nutrition is all about!

LOL, obviously a well paid sycophant.

HAES (Healthy at Every Size) adherents love to preach the gospel of “intuitive eating”. Naturally all these women, like Gay, are morbidly obese.

HAES is very cult-like.

Intuitive eating would work a charm if we didn't live in our modern world of abundance. We have every kind of processed, carb laden, sugary food available 24/7. And these foods are highly addictive for many (most?) people. Where does intuition lead you when you have a bag of chips or a carton of Ben and Jerry's in front of you. For many people, "intuition" tells them to eat the whole damn thing.

[quote] The recipe below, apart from Gay’s adjustments, which are italicized, is a lightly edited reproduction of the original, which can be found in Huff’s book “Icing on the Cake” [Abrams, 2019].)

So Gay is "presenting" a recipe that's actually by Tessa Huff, a white woman. Imagine the backlash if a white woman had a NYT series that was her presenting recipes actually created by a black woman.

True R41. And it's sad. They are only healthy while young. Once they hit middle age.....not so much.

The real crime is that pink frosting.

R4 because you’ve never seen it before.

Possibly r46. I think it's also because, in the still photo, her upper lip looks like it shapes into a V when she smiles, like the Grinch.

OP posted a paywalled article.

Very stupid

CULTURAL APPROPRIATION!

Buttercream is sacred to the Vartas People of the North Plains Tribe. Only those who have been raised in that religion and culture have the right to make use of it.

That's true, R43. I wonder if Gay is chosen for a lot of these things so that companies like the Times can say: "Look! We have our black/female/bisexual person. Don't criticise us!" Which is very cynical and depressing.

Obsessed much? This person must take up entire days in people’s minds. Or weeks.

We think of her by the pound.

She's in my country at the moment. Apparently was on Q&A last night. I haven't watched it, but I hope she did better than last time where she said some particularly gross stuff:

Wait wait hold the fuck up. I am older than her? She's only 47? I thought black don't crack.

^ With that amount of stretching, anything would crack.

Is this cooking series of Roxane’s some kind of ironic post-modern reclaiming of the Aunt Jemima mammy stereotype?

Couldn't she just put all the ingredients in a giant blender and make a smoothie? It would save her so much time.

Daily Mail level trolling from the Times. 'Slim pins' and I would fall over laughing.

The Daily Mail would never be so patently dishonest as to refer to "slim pins" with Roxane.

They would use a phrase instead like "flaunting her curves."

[quote] really don't get the point of the Times' Roxane Gay cooking series. She's not a professional chef and she's not the creator of these recipes; as she herself admits, they're borrowed from elsewhere, and she makes only the slightest adjustments to them. And though she is famous for her writing, she doesn't write these pieces, either.

“Not a professional chef” and “not the creator of these recipes” describes large numbers of the people the people who work or are in someway active in food media. People enjoy hearing from home cooks. There’s literally a very popular show called the “worst cooks in America.”

As far as borrowing recipes; even professional chefs talk about their influences and tweaking the recipes of others. They don’t create a new original recipe every time they cook.

Roxane and Brooklyn Beckham should do a fun cooking show as co-hosts.

Cake? She was allowed to have CAKE?

No wonder I feel an unbearable pressure today! I'm about to COLLAPSE!

Won't someone help me??!???

Can't we talk about her cak?

r63: No, because that joke is nearly twenty years old, and wasn't even funny the first time.

BEARKING: Roxane Gay says Let Them eat Cak!

R64, it was better in the old days when we wcould get a laugh out of the use of phrases like "cak".

I'm starting a GoFundMe for Roxane Gay's Chair!

It could use all the support and reinforcement we can give it.

The obsession of it all.

[quote]I'm starting a GoFundMe for Roxane Gay's Chair!

Definitely a cause more worthy than most!

R66 that sort of thinking is what encourages that "BEARKING" troll who keeps trying to make that a thing, whether the rest of us like it or not!

R53 is she arguing for or against increasing the suicide rates of young men?

R71 She was given a statistic stating that young men commit suicide at a higher rate than young women and she basically dismissed it as meaningless.

In Australia we do have shockingly high numbers of male suicides. She decided to play "all lives matter" with it, in a way she would never have accepted if someone had done the reverse of what she did with, say, statistics on domestic violence.

She's in Australia?

Tell us where she hurt you.

R74, yeah she's been out here for a couple of days. Doing a few talks and was on one of our panel discussion shows last night.

I expect Australia won't take to her as they did ABBA.

Haha, yeah not likely, R77. Each time she comes out here she makes insensitive comments, so not sure she's well liked among those who have actually heard of her (which isn't many, I don't think). She was here for a debate awhile back with someone on the other side of the political spectrum from her and Roxane came off so badly that her people started threatening the people running the debate not to make the debate public, or something. Mostly because Roxane wasn't able to do much more than sigh loudly and act exhausted at what the other woman was saying, in lieu of actually having any argument.

R35- Where's the 300lb woman? I only see a woman he weighs 400+ pounds.

You gotta get a gimmick.

Haha, yeah Twitter trolling doesn't translate well to real life situations where you can't hide behind "I'm so exhausted, y'all".

She ate New Zealand.

Roxane's exhausted sighs are her money shots. The audience goes crazy for that shit.

Roxane ate the baby. The dingo has been get a a bad rap all this time.

^getting

R72. This gal has Michelle Obama disease. I read MO's book and loved it EXCEPT for the fact that her sole interest, cause-wise, during her reign as FLOTUS seemed to be elevating black girls. Why not back boys? They are at far greater risk in every way. Higher rates of incarceration, higher rates of death due to violence and drugs, lower graduation rates, higher unemployment....on and on. Nothing from MO about black males--crickets.

She’s such a phony.

I thought Stanley Tucci had cornered the market on talented amateurs. I don't care if she makes a pink cylinder of fat and sugar.

Males generally are not favorites, R86. My favorite thing is nursing home commercials about "a place for mom." Dad presumably was already driven to an early grave? Men are for semen and bloody deaths in the Middle East and killing spiders and prison.

NO GOD! PLEASE, NO!!! NOOOOOOOOOO

I'm imagining by now Roxane's chair is more gaffa tape than wood.

Wow, so true R89.

r87, she is oppressed! Poor dear.

I did laugh when Roxane spoke about sometimes being too exhausted to put the chocolate chip cookies on the cake.

I’d call her the C word but one would need a pickaxe, hard hat, and twelve-foot length of rope to find hers.

[quote] she is oppressed

She may be oppressed, but I am PRESSED, y'all. Day in and day out. The pressure is overwhelming!

BUMP

The last time I saw Roxane tweeting, she was saying how "holding my head up right now is exhausting", which made me laugh because of course it is! That is so Roxane! At the same time, I have sympathy because things are not great in the US right now, and I can't blame her for feeling like that with everything happening.

She sure perked up when it got time to talk about the frosting!

When Gay participates in panel discussions, she is always half the panel.

The woman can’t even bake her so-called favourite cake without acting aggrieved about it. It’s hilarious!

What type of cake DOESN’T she swear by?!

I didn't read the article. I'm too exhausted. Does Roxane make her own frosting, or does she shovel cans of it into her shopping cart from off the supermarket shelf?

She made her own in this case, R103, but it clearly EXHAUSTED her. It also didn’t look that appealing, to be honest, and I love cake. I think it’s because I’ve been learning the techniques to bake properly, including making proper buttercream, and she was just dumping everything in in a way that looked kinda off-putting and like it probably wouldn’t turn out as well, therefore tasting kinda gross.

Actually she looks sincerely happy there. Maybe she’s only happy when cooking and eating. It makes sense.

She also looks grandmotherly.

I dunno, she appears exhausted by the whole cooking thing (except when it’s time to start the frosting), but I suppose it’s what she thinks of as ‘humour’?

She acknowledged that baking is chemistry and a precise science, but then told people they should play fast and loose with recipes? gurl!!!

Also, American buttercream is so hideously sweet (so of course she’d use it). The cake doesn’t look [italic]bad[/italic], but would be so much better with swiss meringue buttercream and [italic]good[/italic] chocolate for the chocolate chips, not some random American crap (American chocolate tastes like stomach acid).

Why doesn't she just go on Wegovy now?

[quote] (American chocolate tastes like stomach acid)

I agree! Hershey's chocolate has an almost acrid taste, but why is that?

R110

They put some chemical in it that smells like throw-up. It's an American tradition, like apple pie and school shootings.

Swiveling back to Roxane: does anyone know how she wipes her butt?

Why Hershey's Chocolate tastes different from European chocolate.

Roxane on the Youtube clip is just plain sad.

The Aussies are staring at her like, "I want to be interested in what you say, but am mesmerized by your repulsive physique. You are one big fat lady."

Roxane talks very fast. I guess it's a "I'm-very-bright-despite-my-big-ass" type of thing.

She’s only gotten as far as she has because she meets woke criteria of being-

FAT

BLACK

LESBIAN

FEMALE

GROUCHY

if Roxanne were thin she’d be gorgeous, potentially modelesque.

Unless she has a naturally fat person's build like Star Jones or the flounder faced girl from the Little Mermaid.