Cooking
Or, When a recipe goes wrong.
Last week, I made a White Chocolate Pound Cake. I just felt like baking one.
I carefully followed the directions, as I (almost) always do. Melted chocolate in the cake, as well as white chocolate layered with the batter: cake, chocolate, cake, chocolate, cake.
Sounds simple, doesn't it?
Well, I did as I was instructed. I baked the cake as long as I was told, too. I inserted a wooden skewer into the cake, instead of the recommended knife, but still...the skewer came out clean. I let the cake cool, transferred to a rack, drizzled with both white and semisweet chocolate.
And yet...it just didn't look right.
I finally got around to cutting a piece for Matt to try. The inside? Still looked...wet. Clearly not done. However, if I'd kept the cake in the oven longer, the exposed portion would have been hard and blackened.
So...we chucked the cake in the trash. What a waste.
Anyone have a tried-and-true white chocolate pound cake recipe they'd like to share? I know I'm not going back to this one!
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Cooking
Trial and Error
Or, When a recipe goes wrong.
Last week, I made a White Chocolate Pound Cake. I just felt like baking one.
I carefully followed the directions, as I (almost) always do. Melted chocolate in the cake, as well as white chocolate layered with the batter: cake, chocolate, cake, chocolate, cake.
Sounds simple, doesn't it?
Well, I did as I was instructed. I baked the cake as long as I was told, too. I inserted a wooden skewer into the cake, instead of the recommended knife, but still...the skewer came out clean. I let the cake cool, transferred to a rack, drizzled with both white and semisweet chocolate.
And yet...it just didn't look right.
I finally got around to cutting a piece for Matt to try. The inside? Still looked...wet. Clearly not done. However, if I'd kept the cake in the oven longer, the exposed portion would have been hard and blackened.
So...we chucked the cake in the trash. What a waste.
Anyone have a tried-and-true white chocolate pound cake recipe they'd like to share? I know I'm not going back to this one!
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So what was that I was saying last week? Oh yeah, "I'm going to be good". Ha! This is one of those weeks. It started with a cookout at my parents, followed the next night by dinner out with my family to celebrate three birthdays, and then I had to...
- Under "likes": Chocolate
She said she liked chocolate. So I gave her chocolate. A double-dark chocolate cake, topped with a thick & shiny ganache and Jackson Pollocked-white chocolate. 'Paisley' shaped cake....
- Daring Bakers: Has The Fat Lady Sung Yet?
I'm rather pleased with myself. I saw this month's challenge, and decided I was going to turn it into a mother's day cake for Matt's Mom. Which means...I completed the challenge weeks early! Usually, I'm scrambling the night before,...
- Post-oscar Decadence
Of all the nominations, I've only seen...two?...of the films. Ratatouille and Michael Clayton. Which is probably a higher number than past years. We decided to have a sort of 'decadence' dinner. Nothing too fancy, just foods we really enjoy....
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