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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
I mentioned a desire to make cookies in #cs earlier today, and was greeted with a slightly worrying amount of enthusiasm.
14:39 <crowbar> cookie materials are now here :)14:40 <andee> o.O
14:43 <xand> o.o
14:44 * Steve thinks Crowbar likes cooking
14:44 <steve> ...and cookies
14:44 <xand> who doesn't?
14:44 ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
So, this is that white chocolate cake I've been going on about. I finally made it. Here's how I made the sponge.
4 medium eggs
250g Butter
250g Sugar minus 4 tablespoons
250g self raising flour
Tablespoon of Baking Powder
4 tablespoons of White Hot Chocolate Powder from Whittards
Vanilla Essence
Grease up two cake tins with baking ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
I've just finished baking the sponges and making the icing for my white chocolate cake. After a suggestion from xugglybug I went to Whittards and got myself some white hot chocolate powder. It turns out that it's mostly sugar, with some dried cocoa butter, so I mixed a couple of ...
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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
I came up with this idea whilst at a friends house a while ago.
Chocolate sponges are all well and good, but what about white chocolate sponges? After pondering if this was even remotely possible, I have a few ideas.
To start off with, make a normal sponge (Victoria Sponge sort of ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
This is my first unaided attempt at a chocolate cake - it's not perfect, but it's getting there. Here's the recipie I used:
The Cake
Caster Sugar (250g)
Butter (250g)
3 large eggs
Self raising flour (250g)
Baking powder (teaspoon)
Cocoa powder (tablespoon or two)
Take 2 cake tins about 8" across, and put greaseproof paper in the ...
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