LET THEM EAT CAKE
For Christmas, you can make this 2-word chocolate roll cake while watching the same-named item burn on TV
A yule log
Achilles' one weakness was here, left dry when his mother dipped him in the River Styx
The Heel
An exhibition about colors in fairy tales at a Brothers Grimm museum was titled "Red Hood," this color "Beard"
Blue
In 2019, using the Event Horizon Telescope, the first of these cosmic objects was photographed
Black Hole
Change a letter in the color of money into the rapacious desire for said money
green & greed
Hey, batter batter, don't swing, batter! A trademarked tube pan with fluted sides is used to make this cake
bundt
Aeschylus called this Greek's bearing of the heaven & earth "a burden not easy for his arms to grasp"
Atlas
Schloss Liebegg is home to Switzerland's Hexenmuseum, or museum of this practice
Witchcraft
A study at Johns Hopkins suggests that being around dogs at an early age may lessen the risk of this "split mind" disorder
Schizophrenia
A word meaning mild or not very flavorful spices things up by becoming a verb meaning to mix
bland & blend
An important part of a dessert like a Charlotte, this delicate, light sponge cake sounds perfect (for a cannibal!)
Lady Finger
In Shakespeare's play about him & Cressida, he says, "I am weaker than a woman's tear"
Troilus
The NEMO Science Museum is just off the IJ waterway in this world capital
Amsterdam
Observed in 2019, 2I/Borisov is the first identified one of these bodies of rock & ice to visit from outside our solar system
Comet
With a change of just one letter, to burn slightly becomes a single-named superstar singer/actress
Char and Cher
Pineapple is the main attraction in this kind of cake, inverted before serving so the glazed fruit goes from bottom to top
a pineapple upside-down cake
Phaethon tries to ride this god's chariot through the skies but isn't strong enough to control the horses
Helios
DAILY DOUBLE: A U.K. museum dedicated to this author has a ball made of chocolate bar foil wrappers
Roald Dahl
RBBP6, one of these compounds that contain amino acids, has proven effective against Ebola
A word meaning of short duration turns very sad as one denoting sharp sorrow over a death
brief & grief
Split a sweet Biscuit in half, fill & top it with softly whipped cream & sliced fruit--like strawberries--& you've got this
Suitors to Penelope struggle to string this man's bow, & it gets worse for them after that
Odysseus
This Portuguese city is famous for wine but its Serralves Museum specializes in non-aged art, from the 1960s & later
Porto
Developers of this hyphenated type of battery that powers smartphones & electric cars won the 2019 Nobel Chemistry Prize
Lithium Ion
Change a letter in the opposite of illuminated to get a word for unpleasantly damp & chilly
dark & dank