Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Old-Fashioned Chocolate Cake #TheCakeSliceBakers


This months Cake almost didn’t happen. Not that I didn’t feel like baking. Only because my pantry has been low on ingredients, and I didn’t feel like making a run to the grocery store on a lazy Sunday.
#ATKCAKE


Being that it was Fathers Day I wanted to bake for my husband. I decided to review this months Cake Slice choices one more time, hoping I could at least do half a recipe. 
The Old-Fashioned Cake was the winner! With limited ingredients on hand I made a few minor changes. I used regular cocoa powder, and reduced the baking soda to one teaspoon, and added 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder. I also had no unsweetened chocolate, and used semi-sweet chocolate, and  omitted adding sugar to the melted chocolate mixture.




Being that it was a lazy Sunday I opted for a loaf pan, less pans to grease and wash. I had unexpected leftover batter, and it was easier to pop liners in the muffin tin than grease another pan. So cupcakes  it was! 


Loved everything about this recipe! Especially the new mixing technique! This recipe uses a ribboning mixing technique versus the creaming and reverse method mixing technique. Loved it! The cake and cupcakes turned out simply delicious! The frosting was outrageously delicious too! I made a third of the chocolate frosting recipe and had plenty to generously frost my chocolate loaf and the nine cupcakes. 
I had one happy Dad on Fathers Day. 




Each month The Cake Slice Bakers are offered a selection of cakes from the current book we are baking through.  This year it is The Perfect Cake from America's Test Kitchen #atkcake.  We each choose one cake to bake, and then on the 20th - never before - we all post about our cake on our blogs. There are a few rules that we follow, but the most important ones are to have fun and enjoy baking & eating cakes!

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The choices this month were Old-Fashioned Chocolate Layer Cake, Rhubarb Ribbon Cake, Lavender Tea Cakes with Vanilla Glaze, and Summer Peach Cake.