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.

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