Thursday 15 March 2012

Pioneer effort

I have baked cakes successfully for about five years now. However, when I made chocolate cake I had only Betty Crocker to thank for. I finally decided I must try and bake one from scratch. I have a fabulous cook book that Prashani gave me, but I find it a tad intimidating. It calls for half a wine glass of something and being the chemistry lab geek (some may call that OCD) that I am, I need to know what kind of wine glass, etc. because the measurement will vary with the size of the glass, won't it!

And so I searched the fabulous internet and found Candian Living. I buy the magazine on occasion and have found the recipes actually work so I decided to try their chocolate layer cake recipe. It called for at least one last minute run to the shops for two cake pans because I did not have two of the same size to bake the layers. The trouble I have with trying new recipes is that I often find I don't have one ingredient or utensil and when I improvise I mess things up.


I worked on the recipe, following instructions diligently, and produced a pretty yummy cake that didn't look half bad. My only trouble is that all my cakes tend to rise in the middle and doing layers can get tricky. Even though I don't like to I might have to cut the top off to make a nice flat layer cake. I wish I could have shared it with my chocolate loving friends.



2 comments:

The Girl said...

Oh my goodness, that looks so yummy!

The Dork said...

Thank you thank you thank you. Coming from you that means a lot. Because you know I couldn't even do the Betty Crocker cakes back in the day...:)