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09-15-2010, 07:17 PM | #16 | |
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Re: Your most delicious cake recipe
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That is a good one! So moist and delicious! I like it with peanut butter icing.
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09-15-2010, 08:54 PM | #17 |
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Re: Your most delicious cake recipe
I can't share my favourite one (sworn to secrecy), but I'll post this AWESOME dark chocolate one:
Dense chocolate loaf cake (from Nigella's "How to be a domestic goddess"): 1 cup soft unsalted butter 1 2/3 cup dark brown sugar 2 large eggs, beaten 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 4 oz bittersweet chocolate, melted (must be very good quality) 1 1/3 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 cup plus 2 teaspoons boiling water 9x5 inch loaf pan Preheat oven to 375 degrees F and grease and line the loaf pan. You MUST line the pan because the cake is very damp and very likely stick. Cream butter and sugar and add eggs and vanilla, beating well. Fold in melted and slightly cooled chocolate, blend well but don't overbeat. You want to combine the ingredients, you don't want a light airy mass. Combine flour and baking soda. Then gently add the flour alternately spoon by spoon with the boiling water to the batter. In other words, add a spoon of flour, mix, then a spoon of water, mix, etc. until you have a smooth and fairly liquid batter. Pour into the loaf pan and bake for 30 minutes. Turn oven down to 325 and bake for 15 more minutes. The cake will still be a bit moist inside so a skewer inserted won't come out completely clean. Let the cake cool down completely before turning it out. It will sink a bit in the middle. It improves over the next day or so. You don't need to ice it at all, but it's awesome with vanilla cream or strawberries and ice-cream as dessert. |
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09-16-2010, 06:27 AM | #18 |
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Re: Your most delicious cake recipe
I don't have any Hershey's cocoa! Did somebody say peanut butter icing? I had no idea that existed!
Is this it? http://www.hersheys.com/recipes/reci...ail.asp?id=184 |
09-16-2010, 10:09 AM | #19 |
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Re: Your most delicious cake recipe
Yes, that is it.
I like to use some coffee for the water. The batter is really, really thin, so don't get freaked out! For peanut butter icing: 1 pound confectioners' sugar 2 cups creamy peanut butter 10 tablespoons butter, at room temperature 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 2/3 cup heavy cream Mix all ingredients except for cream in a mixer with a paddle attachment on medium low. Add cream and whip until creamy. You may need more or less sugar depending on how sweet/thick you want it. The original recipe called for half that amount of sugar, and I found it was just like spreading Jif on a cake, so I double the sugar now. I am kind of "until it looks right" kind of girl with my icing, so you may have to experiment with your cream and sugar amounts.
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09-16-2010, 12:26 PM | #20 |
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Re: Your most delicious cake recipe
will it be different if I use natural peanut butter? I have issues using that kind of pb in cookies sometimes.
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09-16-2010, 01:22 PM | #21 | |
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Re: Your most delicious cake recipe
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Hmmmm, I dunno. My guess is yes, it would be different. I always use the Whole Foods Organic kind that has sugar and non-hydrogenated palm oil added. Maybe you could make a small batch and add a bit more butter? What I typed out is two batches from the original recipe because one batch was never enough for a whole cake. I bet just trying 1/4 of the recipe above would give you enough for filling the cake, and then you can see how it comes out before wasting a lot of ingredients.
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