That old song, "someone's in the kitchen with Dinah, someone's in the kitchen I kno-o-o-ow"
I always wondered who it was who was in the kitchen with Dinah and if she were aware they were there. Or if the person with her was a ninja or a sniper or something.
I guess actually being in the kitchen would be pretty close range for a sniper. Unless Dinah had a REALLY long kitchen....
She would also have to be some sortof Crime lord or a person of interest for someone to want to put out a hit on her, which is unlikely although a lot of old nursery rhymes have scary themes about them...
....sniping a mafia boss probably isn't one of them though, right? I've probably just been watching Jimbo play metal gear too much.
Anyway moving swiftly on to cakes!
Jimbo and myself decided not to go all out this Valentines day as we are saving for a holiday! So he cooked me one of my favourite dinners (Spaghetti Carbonara) and I thought I'd make use of my new silicone heart mould and make some tasty treats for him.
This recipe was actually a total accident. See, we love the cookie recipe from budgetgourmetmom so much that I was going to make it again, except I kinda screwed it up a little.
So, here we have "Heart cake-ies"
Ooooft they were some tasty little muffinthings!
Which were made entirely by accident >.<
See, Y'know that super tasty cookie recipe I posted last time? That was actually what I was going for this time. Except I slightly bodged the recipe.
I am still trying to train myself out of throwing in all the ingredients in willy-nilly as the recipe is put in order for a reason. If you don't follow the steps correctly then things don't react with each other as they should, consistencies get all bloopy when they should be smooth. Sometimes it's salvageable and sometimes it's not.
Sometimes you end up with something totally different from what you were trying to make :D
This is the modified recipe I used to make the cake-ies:
+ 1 1/4 cup butter, melted
Which were made entirely by accident >.<
See, Y'know that super tasty cookie recipe I posted last time? That was actually what I was going for this time. Except I slightly bodged the recipe.
I am still trying to train myself out of throwing in all the ingredients in willy-nilly as the recipe is put in order for a reason. If you don't follow the steps correctly then things don't react with each other as they should, consistencies get all bloopy when they should be smooth. Sometimes it's salvageable and sometimes it's not.
Sometimes you end up with something totally different from what you were trying to make :D
This is the modified recipe I used to make the cake-ies:
+ 1 1/4 cup butter, melted
+ 1 cup granulated sugar
+ 1 cup brown sugar (I used dark)
+ 2 large eggs
+ 2 teaspoons vanilla
+ 1 teaspoon baking soda
+ 1 teaspoon salt
+ 2 - 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour+ 1/3 cup self raising flour
+ 2 bars of milk choc (200g in total)
The method was also slightly different, I followed the 1st steps of the cookie recipe where you melt the butter, put it in with the granulated and brown sugar. However THEN, while the butter is still hot. Take about 50g of chocolate, chop it up into fairly small chunks, give it a minute or so and THEN mix the butter and sugar together. What you should be watching for is the chocolate melting with the heat of the butter. This actually cancelled out the need to add any cocoa powder. SUPER tasty.
Continue the recipe as normal UNTIL you start adding flour. When you're ready to add flour, measure out about 1/3 of a cup of self-raising and add that in first. Then continue adding the plain flour as you would have with the cookie recipe. When I was baking, I was also watching adventure time and so I accidentally picked up the wrong flour >.<
You end up with pretty much the same consistency mixture, and for the 1st batch, just for jokes I used my new silicone heart mould :D I also baked the cakes for a few minutes less than the cookies, just to watch them. I think I started with 9-10 minutes but they actually needed more like 14-15. I don't know what kind of oven y'all have so always check at the 10 minute mark to make sure it's cooking right! Same temp as the cookie recipe ;D
+ 2 bars of milk choc (200g in total)
The method was also slightly different, I followed the 1st steps of the cookie recipe where you melt the butter, put it in with the granulated and brown sugar. However THEN, while the butter is still hot. Take about 50g of chocolate, chop it up into fairly small chunks, give it a minute or so and THEN mix the butter and sugar together. What you should be watching for is the chocolate melting with the heat of the butter. This actually cancelled out the need to add any cocoa powder. SUPER tasty.
Continue the recipe as normal UNTIL you start adding flour. When you're ready to add flour, measure out about 1/3 of a cup of self-raising and add that in first. Then continue adding the plain flour as you would have with the cookie recipe. When I was baking, I was also watching adventure time and so I accidentally picked up the wrong flour >.<
You end up with pretty much the same consistency mixture, and for the 1st batch, just for jokes I used my new silicone heart mould :D I also baked the cakes for a few minutes less than the cookies, just to watch them. I think I started with 9-10 minutes but they actually needed more like 14-15. I don't know what kind of oven y'all have so always check at the 10 minute mark to make sure it's cooking right! Same temp as the cookie recipe ;D
Happy Valentines!
B'awwwwmovingon.....
xxxxxx
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