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Brooke ([personal profile] betweensunandmoon) wrote2022-02-26 10:12 pm
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Chocolate layer cake

My grandmother and I baked a three-layer chocolate cake today—my first time ever making a cake and frosting from scratch.



It didn't turn out too even, but it was delicious.
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[personal profile] igenlode 2022-02-27 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
That's impressively large -- and luxurious! My experiments tend more to the bargain-basement end of affairs, because it's just too daunting to put a lot of valuable ingredients into something that might not come out right...

(I did, very unusually, ice a cake all over recently; I'm trying to remember what it was. I have a feeling it was the coffee-nut cake, but I can't imagine what I can have iced it *with*, given that I'm almost out of icing sugar. I don't seem to have mentioned it in my blog, but I have dim memories that it may somehow have been 'iced' with a sort of set cornflour custard mixture...!)
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[personal profile] igenlode 2022-02-28 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Found it: 27th September.


I was experimenting with wartime 'cake filling' (which is basically cooked white sauce slightly stiffened and enriched with dried egg and a tablespoon of sugar, and in this case flavoured with instant coffee!)
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[personal profile] igenlode 2022-03-02 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, whole pecans. White sauce is just milk thickened with flour -- flour and water paste made with milk and a little fat instead of plain water :-D
https://www.goodto.com/recipes/white-sauce-recipe

It wasn't terribly complicated. There was just a lot of everything.

Three nine-inch tiers is certainly a lot of cake!