odzer's blog

Chocolate Cake

I have made a chocolate cake yet again. This time I made a cake that I deliberately kept moist. Usually I like dry cakes but since I was expecting guests for dinner I decided to do a different variety. I could not cut the cake to show it up for the blog because it was for a special event. Anyway It came out pretty nice. It made an excellent combination with some vanilla ice cream.

I am thinking about doing a similar coffee cake sometime. The secret to a moist cake is simple though. Liquid. It can be any liquid but in this case it was just plain old water. Usually such cakes employ oil instead of butter but I would rather not use oil. So in case of a coffee cake something like liquid coffee would do the job of having a softer cake.

Some days ago I have made a chocolate cake. I used 80% cacao chocolate and added even some cocoa to it. It came out fairly well. So you can say that I like my chocolate cake quite ‘chocololaty’. I usually like non-frosted chocolate cakes but I suppose a black forest cake can be good occasionally if it is done properly. One of the most amusing things is what happens if you keep a cookie jar full of this cake around. It seems that it keeps disappearing on its own. It’s almost magical. Although I suspect it may have something to do with my mother.

I have decided that I am going to bake a batch of brownies soon for a change and it may be as early as today because I plan to host a dinner party tonight. So just keep watching this space for yet more cakes…

I like Chocolate, it is one of the few things that actually calm me down mood wise. I am especially partial to Chocolate Cake especially with Walnuts. However Walnuts have become very expensive due to a TV swami making claims that they are good for your heart. Which they might as well be but why did he have to tell it to all and sundry! Any way so today I was very hungry when I came home after my evening grocery shopping and I had a rather early dinner around 6:45 pm (I usually eat dinner in Summers around 7:45 pm) so I needed a snack with my last cup of tea. I baked this Chocolate cake for that very purpose. It came out quite nice I must say though I could have done with a bit less flour but since the weather is warm now, very moist cakes tend to go bad without refrigeration soon and I do not like to refrigerate my cakes. Not bad at all!