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[Recipe] Nancy's Easy Chocolate Cake
Nov. 28th, 2008 09:51 amI realized yesterday that my cookbooks and such are about to be packed away for an indeterminate amount of time, so that I needed to get this posted.
As some of my readers know, the bakery I manage makes a really good chocolate cake, and if you have been to certain L5R tournaments you might even have tasted it. (L5R is quite possibly the only CCG in the world that would sponsor a baking contest. Yet another reason to love this game!) I have been asked for the recipe multiple times, but our store has a policy against giving out recipes and I have abided by it. (One cannot expect to enforce policy if one is not willing to bound by it.)
However.
Cake recipes fall into families, and so any given cake will have multiple versions. Thus, when I came across the recipe for Easy Chocolate Cake in the Favorite Recipes of the Nebraska Czechs cookbook, a cake whose ingredient list was word-for-word our cake recipe, I realized that our store policy didn't say anything about other people's recipes for similar cakes. I baked up the Easy Chocolate Cake to make sure it worked, and after tasting it I decided that it was ok, but it could be better. Thus, I spent the summer testing out variations on the Czech model until I got one I liked. This is not identical to the one we bake, but it is pretty darned good. ( And here it is. )
As some of my readers know, the bakery I manage makes a really good chocolate cake, and if you have been to certain L5R tournaments you might even have tasted it. (L5R is quite possibly the only CCG in the world that would sponsor a baking contest. Yet another reason to love this game!) I have been asked for the recipe multiple times, but our store has a policy against giving out recipes and I have abided by it. (One cannot expect to enforce policy if one is not willing to bound by it.)
However.
Cake recipes fall into families, and so any given cake will have multiple versions. Thus, when I came across the recipe for Easy Chocolate Cake in the Favorite Recipes of the Nebraska Czechs cookbook, a cake whose ingredient list was word-for-word our cake recipe, I realized that our store policy didn't say anything about other people's recipes for similar cakes. I baked up the Easy Chocolate Cake to make sure it worked, and after tasting it I decided that it was ok, but it could be better. Thus, I spent the summer testing out variations on the Czech model until I got one I liked. This is not identical to the one we bake, but it is pretty darned good. ( And here it is. )
