[random] cake

i just baked a chocolate cake to take to archery tomorrow, but then i had a slice of it and it is TOO GOOD TO SHARE.

my chocolate cake recipe, by pen, aged 23 minus four days.

one and two thirds (or maybe three quarters) cups of self raising flour
one cup of sugar
two tablespoons of cocoa
250grams of butter (OMG SO MUCH FAT)
one cup of milk
two eggs

mix really, really well. i know it looks too runny but trust me on this one. just keep mixing.

thirty five minutes on 180C. try to use a shallow cake tin.

now you must all cook it and tell me what you think OMG SO GOOD. SO LIGHT AND FLUFFY WAIT!

i forgot the most important part! which is, after it cools and has been cut, melt chocolate buds (dark, preferably, but milk works too) in a saucepan (and that saucepan is in a saucepan filled with water, which is the proper way to melt chocolate), mix in a tiny amount of milk to make it manageable, and drizzle over the cake.

i was just called by both brothers in law, on separate phone lines but from the same house, about five minutes apart. don't these boys ever talk? archery!brother called to confirm that we're going drinking tonight, and the other one called to demand the bsg soundtrack to take with him when he goes to new zealand in about six hours. so i guess i should go find that.

oh! also, zeplum wrote me birthday fic: Wheel Has Spun, a BSG/Pretender crossover.