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[labellementeuse]

New plan: drop out of university to become cake baker and pastry chef. Become world famous without this cruddy learning thing.

So give me a recipe to try tomorrow, because otherwise I have to go buy buttermilk or cream cheese to try a pound cake recipe and they look kind of pricey (LOTS of eggs, see sixth_light I told you they'd be useful, and several cups of sugar we may not actually have, I told you so again...) Or red velvet cake looks kind of cool...

*sulk* I want cake now. But cool things I found out this evening: so I never knew what bundt cake was (or pound cake, come to think of it) until this evening. But! Bundt cake is apparently just cake cooked in spiral tins like this one. And pound cake is a yellow cake, name coming from the fact that it was originally cooked with a poung each of butter, flour, sugar and eggs.

I find this all fascinating. Oh, America, you are so culturally ubiquitous in the bad way.

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[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Oh, is that the one that was on food_porn a ways back? it looked great then and is still extremely attractive. The only thing I'm worried about is
a) we don't have ramekins. We have texas muffin trays, though, what d'you think?
b) it's even more pricey with pound cake, what with the chocolate, and we don't have any liqueurs. Although oh, god, every time I look at it it looks better.... how much is 6 pounds in grams?

[kheha.livejournal.com]

food_porn?? Must go check it out....

Not sure what a Texas muffin tray is (I'm thinking, 8 oz muffins or something outrageous?), but I think anything should be fine, as long as it can back relative small quantities... Though you need to be able to unmold it, and having multiple cakes in the same tray might make that hard.

6 pounds? You mean 6 ounces, right? For the chocolate? Because 6 pounds of chocolate would be yummy, but probably pretty hard to bake... ;-) Google says it's 6 oz = 170 g. *loves Google*

If you ever end up making it, let me know if it's good. :-)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

It is a yummy community, literally. ;)

Texas muffins are, yeah, big muffins. As opposed to large cupcake size. I really don't know how they translate to American sizes, to be honest. Hmhmhm, multiple cakes *might* work but probably not. *considers logistics* One cake in each pan would probably be okay, though, and cook twice or something.

AhahaHAHA, yes, I meant ounces (although I actually converted 8 pounds and it's, like, two and a half kilograms of chocolate. Which, wow, yum?

Will do! I did make pound cake today... went okay but I iced it which on reflection may have been a mistake. Ho hum.

[kheha.livejournal.com]

Iced pound cake -- odd, but could be very good in its own way. With lemon icing maybe? =D

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Cream cheese icing, actually. Which is pretty yummy.

...*goes to eat another slice*