moist chocolate cake

My female owner, currently in her baking frenzy, tried to bake "Moist Chocolate Cake" yesterday. The process was difficult as she had to mix chocolate milk and cocoa powder together by hand. The mixture soon felt like clay and made the area messy.

Although she followed the recipe to a T and the dough looked promising, the cake did not turn out "moist". It had a brownie texture - dense and heavy. The problem was analysed by a number of baking experts and the blame was put solely on the fan oven she used (or maybe user fault?).

The promising looking Moist Chocolate Cake, baking well. Unfortunately, the temperature was not hot enough. So the cake swelled but it shook like jelly when there was movement. Moist Chocolate Cake indeed.

My female owner could not finish baking the cake as she had to leave for the goodbye party. She intended to continue baking the cake when she returned home but for some strange reasons, the cake was cooked by then. The cake swelled a great deal and upon cooking, formed a huge sort-of U-shaped crack in the crust. Before she could do anything about it, her Intuitive Fren poked three holes into the cake, resulting in a =)

Making the icing for the cake. Now, icing is a 100% foreign concept for my owner. Not that she never heard of it before but she had always avoid eating it. Too sweet, too fattening.

They had a lot of problems with the icing because the wrong type of cream was used. My female owner started off with 50g of butter and had to top up to about 80g, in order to salvage the icing.

Believe me on this. Although my female owner read the recipe many times, she didn't see the portion instructing her to slice the cake into two to put icing in-between the layers. Anyhow, she managed to do a clean cut of the cake. Hmmm... potential butcher.

See the hole in the cake? That was where her Intuitive Fren had earlier pierced through (using a chopstick) to check if the cake was cooked. It was as if you did something bad to someone and later on, you see your victim's wounds right in front of you. No escaping your guilt.

The final product... They used icing on half the cake (just in case the icing didn't turn out good).

Verdict: Although the cake did not turn out as my female owner envisioned it to be (just like the muffins!), my female owner learnt a lot through the process. In addition, her friends gathered round to help her complete the cake. One made the icing, another changed the oven setting for her and educated her on the quirks of that particular oven and the last one, helped her complete the cake. Getting the right "moist" would be just a bonus. However, my female owner decided that if she wanted a quick chocolate cake indulgence, she would just stick to the first chocolate cake she baked a few weeks back.