Tom’s Birthday
or: “The challenges to make a cake without butter or eggs, at 5ºC”
So, it’s Tom’s birthday and we don’t have a cake, it’s also his first day of work for the season, so I stayed and did some research to have a cake ready for when he came back.
Here is the recipe:
*INGREDIENTS*
1 1/2 cups of flour (all purpose if you can, I used high grade and it was fine)
1 cup of sugar
2/3 cup cocoa powder, unsweetened
4 teaspoons baking powder
2 cups milk (I clearly used powder milk and water)
2 1/2 tablespoons of oil (I used canola)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (that I didn’t have, it tastes good anyway)
*INSTRUCTIONS*
Preheat oven to 160ºC (I use Celsius because I’m not american).
Stir the dry ingredients: flour, sugar, cocoa powder and baking powder on a big bowl.
In another bowl (yeah, a pain to wash) whisk the wet ingredients: milk, oil and vanilla.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir with wooden spoon until mixed.
Put the batter in a pan (22 cm), and don’t forget to grease and flour it.
Bake until a toothpick comes up clean, it will depend on your oven but it’s around 40 minutes.
*THE PIG TOUCH: Chocolate custard with whisky.*
I had to use custard powder because I was lacking a lot of the ingredients for home made... so basically follow the custard powder instructions but add 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder and some whisky(I have no idea how much did I poured, but be careful that if you put too much it will get watery).