Chocolate Wacky Cake

[gingerbred]

The Forbidden Forest still exerts an irresistible pull, despite a plethora of perfectly terrifying experiences there in the past. Perhaps it's the wizard at her side that makes her feel sure those encounters are unlikely to be repeated, and should any overtly aggressive Acromantulas dare to put in an appearance (to say nothing of sinister centaurs

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[too_dle_oo]

LEBKUCHEN IS THE BEST!!!!! (Although I'm also partial to Basler Leckerli...)

[gingerbred]

Spices are everything! 😃

[too_dle_oo]

More spices plus faaaaaar less sugar = a win in my book.

[gingerbred]

Oooo! Guess what arrived, sat through quarantine, and finally got opened today?

[Spoiler (click to open)]The Alton Brown Cookbook you recommended. Hubs was wicked pleased, went over well. Thanks for the tip.

[maraj219]

Thoroughly enjoying the on going saga of lego Hermione and Severus! And was that an intentional Princess Bride quote?

[gingerbred]

So glad you are. 😊

Oh yes, it very much was. 😃

[adafrog]

lol My first thought was yummy cake! Why are there people on the yummy cake?! lol Then I read the story. :)

Thanks!

[gingerbred]

You're very welcome! Hope it was a nice birthday. 😊

[adafrog]

It was, thanks.

[orlando_switch]

Oh you found the recipe, thanks! I'm going to try it immediately and I'll post a pic when it is done.

Btw, I have a banana bread recipe, also without mixing, without sugar, eggs, fat and optional also without milk if you are interested. It's a little bit more work than yours since you need to grate a carrot and mash a banana, but still a piece of cake.

[gingerbred]

Eagerly awaiting to hear how it went for you. :)

I'd love the recipe! (Unfortunately I'm allergic to bananas, too, but I seem to have a collection of friends with a variety of allergies, and I know a vegan friend of mine would just love that.)

We make a carrot cake from time to time, and the food processor makes short work of preparing the carrots. It's been a real game changer.

[orlando_switch]

Did it and it worked! I substituted the vinegar for buttermilk and that worked well. I first wanted to buy cream but I had already eaten most of it before I did :)

[beffeysue]

This Wacky Cake sounds like an interesting project. I'm going to copy it and convert the grams to cups/ounces and send it to my daughter and DIL.

I love the Lego SSHG story that you included in your post. And I think Severus is very gallant to have quickly offered making a cake after telling her that a Black Forest cake would be possible until July. 8^)

[gingerbred]

I really like this cake because you can swap out so many things. A friend of mine who is allergic to milk always uses the red wine she doesn't finish for it. I also have an apple spice variant I need to post eventually (if you leave out the cocoa, you need to increase the flour, but not linearly). I'll try to do the math for American units by then. (We don't cook by volume here though, rather mostly by weight.) Ah! But my scale toggles back and forth between units, so that might be easier.

Severus strikes me as someone inclined to see conversation as questions to be answered (or asked) and often only after the fact realise there may have been an emotional component to it his overly sober response neglected to account for. I like the notion he'd try to make up for it.

[mywitch]

Severus strikes me as someone inclined to see conversation as questions to be answered (or asked)..

That's a very interesting way to think of him! I love it

[gingerbred]

It's been complicated enough, what do the Death Eaters want to hear, the Order, what is each side expecting him to tell other side... Conversation has probably been a massiv PITA for years now, I can't see him making things more complicated yet. And every now and again, that really should bite him in the backside.