Daily Happiness

[torachan]

1. OMG IT'S A GIR CAKE!!! This would be too cute to eat, though! That's always the problem with these fancy cakes. Also fondant doesn't taste that great compared to frosting, so it looks nice, but probably isn't so great in the taste department. Still! GIR!

2. Speaking of cakes, we had a delicious chocolate cake today. Tuesday is Carla's hormoniversary (one year on hormones!), so she had people over today for grilling (burgers and Korean BBQ-esque tri-tip) and I made her favorite (also my favorite) cake.

She invited about ten people, but only four could make it, which was just as well for me. I prefer a small group. It was all people I'd already met, too, which also cuts down on the stress. And now she has gone back with Alexander to his place to hang out there tonight and go to his Genderqueer Revolution Coffeetalk thingy tomorrow morning, so I have the house to myself, which is also nice (especially after having company over)! :D

Oh, and I don't remember if I mentioned this in a previous happy post or not, but we now have a gas grill! My mom and Tom got a new one, so they gave us their old one, which Tom had found on the side of the road and fixed up. It doesn't look very nice, but it works great. They gave us an empty tank, so today we took it over to the gas station and exchanged it for a full one (you get a discount if you turn in the old tank).

Chocolate Sheet Cake

Dry Ingredients:
2c Flour
2c Sugar
.25c Cocoa Powder
1tsp Salt
1tsp Baking Soda

Wet Ingredients:
8oz. Butter
1c Water
1.5 tsp vanilla
.5c Sour Cream
2 Eggs

11" x 17" sheet pan

1. Preheat oven to 375
2. In a large bowl, sift together all dry ingredients except cocoa, then set aside
3. In a medium saucepan, melt butter
4. Add the water
5. Stir in cocoa powder
6. Bring to a boil, then remove from heat
7. Pour cocoa mixture into the work bowl of your stand mixer
8. With the mixer on medium, slowly add the flour mix into the cocoa, scraping down bowl occasionally
9. When thoroughly blended, mix in sour cream, eggs and vanilla
10. Bake 15-20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean
11. Frost while still warm using the icing recipe

Chocolate Icing

.25c Butter
5tbsp Milk
4tbsp Cocoa Powder
1tsp Salt
1tsp Vanilla
1lb Powdered Sugar

1. Melt butter in medium saucepan
2. Incorporate next three ingredients
3. Bring to a boil, then remove from heat
4. Transfer mixture to a glass bowl
5. Add sugar slowly, mixing with a hand blender
6. Mix until creamy
7. Add vanilla last. Mix well
8. Frost cake

Daily Happysong:

Spitz - Ajisai Doori
Really there aren't many Spitz songs I don't like, so it's hard to pick favorites. This is one of my faves off their Hachimitsu album, though.

Comments

[jumpuphigh]

That recipe looks divine.

[torachan]

It is so tasty omg. *_*

I'm not even a huge fan of chocolate cake, but this is so good I could easily eat no other deserts but this forever.

[umadoshi]

I'm definitely saving that recipe. ^_^

[torachan]

It's soooooo good!

[red_trillium]

That Gir cake looks adorable! I do like fondant icing (not as much as regular icing though) but that would be too cute to cut, I agree. But then again, would you want all that hard work and labour to go unappreciated when it goes stale because no one cut into it???? ;)

Congrats to Carla on her hormoniversary. I don't remember mine. But then, I tend to forget my wedding anniversary. And my own birthday. And everyone else's birthday.

I'm really bad with remembering stuff. Which explains some of my mistakes at work. :(

[torachan]

Yeah, I'm not sure it's something I would remember, either. I do remember our wedding anniversary (well, I know when it is; I don't always pay attention to what date each day is, so I may not notice when it is actually that day...but we're not really celebrating types anyway, so) and birthdays and such, but if/when I start taking hormones, I can't see myself remembering the date.