Tonight, instead of pies....

[vernon]

I am baking a cake. My first once since I was an undergraduate and my first ever chocolate cake. Some of the girls that I do intervention science teaching for asked for a cake instead of pie to celebrate/commiserate with after getting their mock GCSE exam grades tonight.

How could I refuse?

Wish me luck.

 

[Dave 123]

Are these girls that you've torte?

 

[vernon]

They were torte by a fat rascal.

 

[Fnaar]

No, he's intervened with them.

 

[Leedsbusdriver]

I used to do a good chocolate cake using evaporated milk.The recipe was in my mums Bero book,must dig it out and give it a go again

 

[Cubist]

They were torte by a fat rascal.

Oooh, Betty!

 

[vernon]

I used to do a good chocolate cake using evaporated milk.The recipe was in my mums Bero book,must dig it out and give it a go again

I used to have a Bero cook book when I baked as an undergraduate. It predated thermostatically controlled ovens and was given to me my a friend's mother. It used terms like place on the middle shelf of a moderate oven.

 

[Speicher]

They were torte by a fat rascal.

Tort, torte, taught, and taut, is that "taught or logical"?

 

[ttcycle]

This momentous occasion must be marked by photos.

I thought something was badly wrong.

Photo or it didn't happen.

 

[Archie_tect]

We've got the 1960's Bero Book [first made the raspberry buns from that when I was 8 or so], + a Jimmy Young cookbook and an old Tricity Oven recipe book that my mum had.

 

[dan_bo]

asked for a cake instead of a pie.

Que?

 

[Poacher]

So, no buns in the oven? What a waste.

 

[vernon]

This momentous occasion must be marked by photos.

I thought something was badly wrong.

Photo or it didn't happen.

It's a bit wonky and its creation was not without problems. Using cooking chocolate for the icing mixture was a disaster - it separated into curds and oil and I had to go out and buy more double cream and plain chocolate. I also had to buy new tins because the one's that my wife said that we had from my daughter's cake making activities were too small. It's a tad wonky but final judgement will be given by my gannets at school later today.

 

[Archie_tect]

On the off chance that there's a slice left.....

 

[Archie_tect]

Push off.... one slice.... possibly a larger one but still one. [Oh, go on then]