Cake
Posted by Skrud at Tuesday, October 9th 2007 at 12:53am
I finally, successfully, made some food!
When asked what she wanted for her birthday, Bridget said, “Bake me a cake.” She bought me a beginner’s cookbook as part of my birthday present, so it seems only fitting that I should cook something from it. I ambitiously chose the Sunken Chocolate Cake, if only because the description in the cookbook read “ridiculously easy to make”. Also, because it had very few, simple ingredients: chocolate, butter, eggs, and sugar. No flour or anything fancy like that.
Luckily I had two good friends (Josh and Morgan) supervise me. They helped improvise a Double Boiler to melt the chocolate and butter in, and with beating the eggs. I was a little intimated by the egg beating, since I’m still traumatized by the last experience. No less than 40 minutes later, the cake emerged, and it actually looked like a cake!
Here’s a picture of it with icing sugar on top:
Lessons learned:
- Icing sugar and “confectioner’s sugar” are interchangeable terms.
- “Whipped Cream” and “Whipping Cream” are not. (Many thanks to Morgan for trying to help me improvise an icing).
- If you give Bridget a cake that tastes delicious, she’ll raise the bar and expect more next time.
It was delicious !!
The bar is high for next year!! Best birthday presents ever!
The cake is a lie!
…seemed appropriate.
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