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I don't remember what made me think of it, but a week or two ago I decided that I really wanted to make some Mocha Maple Chocolate Cake. (If you get the reference I will love you forever.)
This is from my favourite kids book ever - Sleeping Dragons All Around by Sheree Fitch. I made my Mum read that to me pretty much every night before I went to sleep (and she still likes it too!). So I went asking my friend the internet for a recipe - I figured there had to be one out there. How could you go wrong with Mocha, Maple and Chocolate?
Anyway, the closest thing I could find was for Mocha Maple Carob Cake and as you might expect it had loads of other health-nut type things in it. I decided to try and make it anyway - I used cocoa powder instead of carob powder and used more all-purpose flour in place of the whole wheat flour. And for the icing I decided to just use some off brand Nutella instead of dealing with the cocoa powder and almond butter and adding the other things to it.
Things I noticed when I was making it:
- You don't have to worry over much about creaming the butter and maple syrup together if you use a cup of hot coffee (and it doesn't say to use cold coffee) because the coffee melts the butter.
- It's possible I put in too much cocoa powder - either that or not enough Maple syrup and coffee. It's hard to taste the latter. Also it's not very sweet (I suspect this is another product of the health-nut type of cake).
- I really do suck at making icing. It should be easy - I follow instructions even. But this is not the first nor the last time I've screwed it up to the point where I think I might not bother using it.
First Corollary: When she said "powdered coffee" in the icing recipe I don't think she meant coffee grinds - my bad.
Whatever - it's still a success if only because I danced in the kitchen and didn't do the dishes!
Things that were on my to do list and are no longer:
- Finish reading my book
- Bake Mocha Maple Chocolate Cake
- Dance in Kitchen
- Don't do the dishes
- Dinner with Dad
- Care-package for L
In other words I've done the fun things... typical me. But now I'm heading off to post the package for L and do my taxes - so I'm not completely hopeless.
Tonight - Game 6 Chicago @ Vancouver. C assures me that we've got it all wrapped up - no problem. It worked last time, so I'm feeling good (oh god that's a lie - I am stressed! Stressed about hockey!) about a win. GO 'NUCKS!
This is from my favourite kids book ever - Sleeping Dragons All Around by Sheree Fitch. I made my Mum read that to me pretty much every night before I went to sleep (and she still likes it too!). So I went asking my friend the internet for a recipe - I figured there had to be one out there. How could you go wrong with Mocha, Maple and Chocolate?
Anyway, the closest thing I could find was for Mocha Maple Carob Cake and as you might expect it had loads of other health-nut type things in it. I decided to try and make it anyway - I used cocoa powder instead of carob powder and used more all-purpose flour in place of the whole wheat flour. And for the icing I decided to just use some off brand Nutella instead of dealing with the cocoa powder and almond butter and adding the other things to it.
Things I noticed when I was making it:
- You don't have to worry over much about creaming the butter and maple syrup together if you use a cup of hot coffee (and it doesn't say to use cold coffee) because the coffee melts the butter.
- It's possible I put in too much cocoa powder - either that or not enough Maple syrup and coffee. It's hard to taste the latter. Also it's not very sweet (I suspect this is another product of the health-nut type of cake).
- I really do suck at making icing. It should be easy - I follow instructions even. But this is not the first nor the last time I've screwed it up to the point where I think I might not bother using it.
First Corollary: When she said "powdered coffee" in the icing recipe I don't think she meant coffee grinds - my bad.
Whatever - it's still a success if only because I danced in the kitchen and didn't do the dishes!
Things that were on my to do list and are no longer:
- Finish reading my book
- Bake Mocha Maple Chocolate Cake
- Dance in Kitchen
- Don't do the dishes
- Dinner with Dad
- Care-package for L
In other words I've done the fun things... typical me. But now I'm heading off to post the package for L and do my taxes - so I'm not completely hopeless.
Tonight - Game 6 Chicago @ Vancouver. C assures me that we've got it all wrapped up - no problem. It worked last time, so I'm feeling good (oh god that's a lie - I am stressed! Stressed about hockey!) about a win. GO 'NUCKS!
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Date: 2017-06-15 02:45 am (UTC)From: (Anonymous)