[random] cake
Jul. 1st, 2005 04:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bantha_fodderi 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,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zeplum wrote me birthday fic: Wheel Has Spun, a BSG/Pretender crossover.
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.
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Date: 2005-07-01 07:03 am (UTC)And maybe I am a freak, but is there an alternative to self-raising flour? Don't believe I've ever tried it, and I'm a little afraid of it. (But cake! Is good!)
... and in the event of me forgetting: HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY!
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Date: 2005-07-01 12:14 pm (UTC)Regular flour + baking powder
Separating the egg whites, whisking them until stiff and folding them in to the final cake mix.
Lemon juice/buttermilk/yoghurt and bicarb soda.
Or just make a heavy, gorgeously dense thing with lots of chocolate and almonds and don't worry about leavening.
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Date: 2005-07-02 06:21 am (UTC)I know you are stressed like woah what with the arrangements to be made, but do you have time to coffee or something with me?
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Date: 2005-07-02 08:47 am (UTC)