First, you boil the oranges.
Tonight I made some kind of crazy clementine cake. I actually made 2 versions – one with ground almonds and one with regular flour. I had to try this recipe out because I have a little shin dig to bring a cake to next week and wanted to try something a little different, but wasn’t brave enough to bring an untested boiled orange cake for everyone to try. Also, I’m going to a potluck tomorrow night and those poor guys can try out this cake. If it’s a bust tomorrow, then I’ll go back to my old standby, One Bowl Chocolate Cake. I’m just hoping this cake’s not too dry. My last couple o’cakes were on the dry side, or, as my mom says, “stroke your throat!”. I’ll let you know the dryness factor tomorrow.
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I found this jar of chocolate spaghetti at the fancy gourmet store yesterday. Look! It’s made in Belgium – home of The Farting Pig! I will happily support the country who is responsible for making that little pig and that catchy song.
I used the entire jar on the top of the vanilla cake with chocolate buttercream frosting. Overall, the cake went over well. Next time, I’ll find a less sweet frosting. Wow. The one I used was very, very sweet. Maybe next time I’ll use a cream cheese frosting? Something a little tangy-er.
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Even zombies can celebrate their birthdays.
Don’t worry, we eventually enjoyed this year’s birthday cake with two glasses of milk – because we’re ten years old – while watching a documentary called, “Smash His Camera“. It’s an interesting documentary about Ron Galella – a paparazzi who especially liked to take photos of Jackie Onassis. He was eventually sued by her and went to court a few times because of his behavior. Also, Marlon Brando punched him in the face. He’s an interesting person and his photos are cool – mostly candids of all kinds of celebrities.
I made our traditional One Bowl Chocolate Cake for Mike and rather than icing, I melted some organic milk chocolate and put that on top.
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This is going my last Royal Wedding post, I promise. But I tried a new recipe for a cake for this occasion – A Victoria Sponge cake after seeing it on this website. Thank you madewithpink.com! I was very careful about getting the right ingredients because I thought this cake may be a little more delicate than what I’m used to making.
This recipe called for Castor Sugar – it’s very finely grained sugar and in Canada, it’s called Berry Sugar. It also called for self raising flour – I have seen it in some grocery stores around town, but when I went to IGA on Robson Street on my lunch hour, they didn’t have it. Instead, I bought a bag of pastry and cake flour and added these ingredients as per the joyofbaking.com –
1 cup (140 grams) similar grade (all purpose) flour plus 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder plus 1/4 teaspoon salt
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