[random] cake

[bantha_fodder]

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.

Comments

[sideofzen.livejournal.com]

Making cake from scratch. I'm very impressed. Usually my adventures in baking go something like this.

Anna's Chocolate Cake Recipe

By cake mix from store.
Put cake mix in bowl.
Add other ingredients per directions.
Put in oven.
Forget about cake in oven.
Burn cake.

Woes.

[bantha-fodder.livejournal.com]

HAHA excellent.

Did you want to hear about the curry I cooked last night? We had already eaten dinner (we'd had takeout), and I had all the ingredients so I cooked a curry. Took one hour forty, which is the fastest I've ever made a curry in my life.

I just find cooking really relaxing. I've used a packet mix for a cake once ever, although it was a pretty good cake. Here's what I don't get, though: don't you have to do just as much work for a packet mix as you do for a cake from scratch? I mean, you still have to sift and break eggs and mix and grease the tray and let it bake.

In conclusion: 9/Rose!

[charis]

Dark chocolate makes everything better. *_* (Archery's not bad either.)

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!

[sideofzen.livejournal.com]

I love curry. OMG.

My mom makes an excellent curry. Usually after Thanksgiving with the turkey leftovers.

And yes.. Nine/Rose 4evah.

Though everytime I see it like that I think 7ofNine/Rose and it just gets really weird.

[bekkypk.livejournal.com]

Sounds good. Hehe this is extra good as we don't have any measuring scales since mum got the new kitchen. So yay cake.
xx

[isilya]

Alternatives to SR flour:

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.

[bantha-fodder.livejournal.com]

I find recipes where you NEED measuring scales kind of weird. Whenever I read them and they're like, 300 grams of chicken and I just move on and don't use those sorts of recipes. Because scales! Too exact for me. I like guessing in my cooking. *g*

[bantha-fodder.livejournal.com]

B, you are so handy to have around.

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?

[bekkypk.livejournal.com]

I usually just mix up my own. I love stir frying chicken and noodles and stuff completely randomly. Whatevers in the kitchen goes in!
Unfortunatly my mums a bit of a weighing-nut.
xx

[isilya]

Actually, I wanted to have you round to dinner. The P's will be out of town for five days and I thought if people are interested we could mini-con? I have all of Numb3rs, House, eps 1-12 of V Mars, and a plasma screen on which to play this stuff. I will email you the date?