today's baking
Feb. 12th, 2009 02:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaTonight we have gaming scheduled, so I decided to bake a cake. One of our gaming group can't have gluten/wheat, so I looked on line for torte and other gluten free cake recipes, and, in typical fashion, opted to not follow any of them precisely, but rather make up my own version inspired by many of them. A high percentage of gluten-free cake recipes out there are for chocolate cake. Alas, I don't like the taste of chocolate. However, the others in the gaming group do, so I decided to make us all happy by doing one batter, flavoured two different ways. Today also happens to be Darwin's birthday, so it is appropriate, I thought, to do two cakes with a common ancestor, but very different mutations, baked in one pan.
Darwin-day cake
6 eggs, separated
2 Tbs butter, divided in half
1 3/4 cup almond meal, divided in half
1 cup sugar, divided in half
~ 160 grams semi-sweet chocolate pieces
couple of spoons full of yoghurt
teaspoon of cream
~1/2 cup potato starch
Separate six eggs, beat the yolks till fluffy (electric mixer), add ½ cup sugar and beat for much longer (~10 min). Meanwhile put 1 tbs butter each into two bowls of the same size/shape. Add semi-sweet baking chocolate to one, and the zest and juice of a small lemon to the other, microwave to melt the butter in the lemon one, and microwave a bit longer to melt the chocolate in the other. Add a teaspoon of grated parmesan, a tablespoon of yoghurt and a teaspoon of cream to the butter-lemon mixture, then add enough potato starch to bring the volume to about the same as the chocolate butter mix. Add a tiny bit of water to the potato/lemon/butter mixture to bring it to an easily stirred, but still thick consistency. Add a teaspoon of yoghurt to the chocolate mixture to bring it to an easily stirred, but still thick consistency. Divide the egg yolk/sugar mixture into two bowls, adding just under 1 cup (but more than ¾ cup) of almond meal to each, and combining one half with the chocolate mix, the other with the lemon mix (use the beater—do the lemon one first and you don’t half to wash the beaters in-between). Clean the beaters and beat the egg whites till fluffy, add 1/2 cup of sugar and keep beating till stiff, but not dry, peaks form. Fold half into each batter, and bake in a spring form cake pan, lined with baking paper on bottom and up the middle of the pan. Have someone else hold the baking paper while you pour the batter into the pans, to keep the first from spreading out over the full area. Bake at 150 C till done.
The downside is that the total time elapsed from starting the project till taking them out of the oven was over two hours, so now I need to frantically try to get some work done before tonight's gaming session!
Darwin-day cake
6 eggs, separated
2 Tbs butter, divided in half
1 3/4 cup almond meal, divided in half
1 cup sugar, divided in half
~ 160 grams semi-sweet chocolate pieces
couple of spoons full of yoghurt
teaspoon of cream
~1/2 cup potato starch
Separate six eggs, beat the yolks till fluffy (electric mixer), add ½ cup sugar and beat for much longer (~10 min). Meanwhile put 1 tbs butter each into two bowls of the same size/shape. Add semi-sweet baking chocolate to one, and the zest and juice of a small lemon to the other, microwave to melt the butter in the lemon one, and microwave a bit longer to melt the chocolate in the other. Add a teaspoon of grated parmesan, a tablespoon of yoghurt and a teaspoon of cream to the butter-lemon mixture, then add enough potato starch to bring the volume to about the same as the chocolate butter mix. Add a tiny bit of water to the potato/lemon/butter mixture to bring it to an easily stirred, but still thick consistency. Add a teaspoon of yoghurt to the chocolate mixture to bring it to an easily stirred, but still thick consistency. Divide the egg yolk/sugar mixture into two bowls, adding just under 1 cup (but more than ¾ cup) of almond meal to each, and combining one half with the chocolate mix, the other with the lemon mix (use the beater—do the lemon one first and you don’t half to wash the beaters in-between). Clean the beaters and beat the egg whites till fluffy, add 1/2 cup of sugar and keep beating till stiff, but not dry, peaks form. Fold half into each batter, and bake in a spring form cake pan, lined with baking paper on bottom and up the middle of the pan. Have someone else hold the baking paper while you pour the batter into the pans, to keep the first from spreading out over the full area. Bake at 150 C till done.
The downside is that the total time elapsed from starting the project till taking them out of the oven was over two hours, so now I need to frantically try to get some work done before tonight's gaming session!
