I made ginger cake yesterday from this recipe. You make something resembling an oil slick from a cup of sugar, a cup of oil, and a cup of molasses, and then you add a big wad of fresh grated ginger, a teaspoon of black pepper, and a bunch of more typical ingredients to it. You also get to dump baking soda into boiling water, which is kinda fun. It came out very well, but they aren’t kidding when they say to use parchment in the pan.

Completely unrelated:
Not being a math or biology person, the pragmatic physical issues involved with scaling people and monsters up and down in B-movies never really occurred to me. Pharyngula points out The Biology of B-Movie Monsters, which is quite the fascinating examination of the subject.