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I have created a monster.
Alethea's birthday is tomorrow, and when I asked what sort of cake she'd like, she eventually settled on cucumber melon. Cucumber melon cake. This was her fondest wish, and after nearly 15 years of friendship, who am I to say her no?
Well, as it turns out no one else has been mad enough to make such a thing, so here's what happened:
The cake is melon flavoured, the frosting is cucumber, and the garnish is a cucumber twist.
Yeah.
If you're curious,
Melon cake:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1/4 cup milk
3/4 cup Midori melon liqueur
1/2 cup butter, melted
3 eggs, beaten
Melt the butter, and whisk together with milk and Midori. Beat in the eggs. In separate bowl sift together dry ingredients. Make a well in the dry, and pour in the wet. Mix until just combined. Pour batter into 2 greased and floured 8 inch pans, or lined cupcake tins. Bake roughly 35 minutes for rounds, 25 for cupcakes, or until toothpick comes out clean. Frost with something.
Cucumber frosting: (this makes a crap ton of frosting)
1/2 cup rough chopped persian cucumbers
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, firm and slightly cold
3 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
Puree cukes in food processor. Add in sugar and butter and blend until it's a just blended paste. Eat up quick and don't over mix as the high water content in the cucumbers will leak out and make the frosting runny.
Alethea's birthday is tomorrow, and when I asked what sort of cake she'd like, she eventually settled on cucumber melon. Cucumber melon cake. This was her fondest wish, and after nearly 15 years of friendship, who am I to say her no?
Well, as it turns out no one else has been mad enough to make such a thing, so here's what happened:
The cake is melon flavoured, the frosting is cucumber, and the garnish is a cucumber twist.
Yeah.
If you're curious,
Melon cake:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1/4 cup milk
3/4 cup Midori melon liqueur
1/2 cup butter, melted
3 eggs, beaten
Melt the butter, and whisk together with milk and Midori. Beat in the eggs. In separate bowl sift together dry ingredients. Make a well in the dry, and pour in the wet. Mix until just combined. Pour batter into 2 greased and floured 8 inch pans, or lined cupcake tins. Bake roughly 35 minutes for rounds, 25 for cupcakes, or until toothpick comes out clean. Frost with something.
Cucumber frosting: (this makes a crap ton of frosting)
1/2 cup rough chopped persian cucumbers
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, firm and slightly cold
3 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
Puree cukes in food processor. Add in sugar and butter and blend until it's a just blended paste. Eat up quick and don't over mix as the high water content in the cucumbers will leak out and make the frosting runny.