A little kitchen improv
Dec. 19th, 2019 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneFriday is our little holiday potluck at the library since it's our last day until January 2! It's the last day of one of my co-workers period: she's retiring and on the second I'm starting full-time! We're having lasagna, green chili enchiladas, you know: traditional winter holiday food.
And I made my flourless chocolate cake!
And I frosted it with an icing that I cobbled together based on an eggnog icing from the Trader Joe's web site. Based on experience and my (lack of) skill at frosting/decorating cakes, I doubled the recipe.
Which produced the question: what to do with the cake now that it was frosted.
Zero fridge space. Can't put it back in the freezer, where it had stayed the last 12 hours, because it was decorated.
So I put it in my car!
It's 25f out there, and it's in a sealed plastic cake carrier, so it'll be fine. It will be fairly frozen when I get to work, but it'll sit out for an hour, so it should be perfect to serve.
But there remains a problem with the excess icing. You see, under New Mexico law, or so I just made up, you can't keep excess icing - you have to use it or trash it. So I guess I'm just going to have to dig out some crackers and my iPad and have a bit of a snack and read some more Project Skinhorse!
DARN! :-)
And I made my flourless chocolate cake!
And I frosted it with an icing that I cobbled together based on an eggnog icing from the Trader Joe's web site. Based on experience and my (lack of) skill at frosting/decorating cakes, I doubled the recipe.
Which produced the question: what to do with the cake now that it was frosted.
Zero fridge space. Can't put it back in the freezer, where it had stayed the last 12 hours, because it was decorated.
So I put it in my car!
It's 25f out there, and it's in a sealed plastic cake carrier, so it'll be fine. It will be fairly frozen when I get to work, but it'll sit out for an hour, so it should be perfect to serve.
But there remains a problem with the excess icing. You see, under New Mexico law, or so I just made up, you can't keep excess icing - you have to use it or trash it. So I guess I'm just going to have to dig out some crackers and my iPad and have a bit of a snack and read some more Project Skinhorse!
DARN! :-)
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Date: 2019-12-20 10:27 am (UTC)Congratulations on full-time, too!
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Date: 2019-12-20 02:51 pm (UTC)Thank you! (and they were!)
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Date: 2019-12-20 10:47 am (UTC)Excess icing? That simply means you didn't put enough on the cake. (chuckle)
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Date: 2019-12-20 02:54 pm (UTC)Thank you, sir! I did a very generous layer on top as I didn't cut the dome off, and after I did the sides I found that the top had already hardened. At least this time I had applied enough so that you couldn't see the dark brown of the cake peering through the icing! And you would deny The Baker's Tithe?! ;-)
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Date: 2019-12-21 01:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-12-20 04:55 pm (UTC)The only time my mom iced cakes was for birthdays for the kids -- so, five times a year. She always made extra icing, then used the extra to make "icing sandwiches" (cracker top & bottom, with icing filling) with Waverly Wafers, back when they were three sections per cracker, the size of a graham cracker. The combination of buttery/salty cracker + icing was even better than the cake. Memories...
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Date: 2019-12-20 06:16 pm (UTC)I used saltines, my preferred cracker. The combo of salt/sweet is quite nice.
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Date: 2019-12-20 06:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-12-20 08:21 pm (UTC)It's been a while since I worked full-time, I'm looking forward to it. Not to mention the doubled pay and paid holidays!