Chocolate Cake

On an ordinary Sunday night, my good friend Quanta and I decided to get together to do some baking. Originally we had the famous Wood donuts in mind, but realized (at about 3 that afternoon) that we wouldn't have time to let the dough rise. So instead, we decided to make a chocolate cake the likes of which are seldom seen.



These are the chronicles of our quest. Please to enjoy.


Our first stop, after finding a recipe, was to go to King Soopers to buy chocolate chips. At the Self-Checkout, I was informed by my counterpart that we would be paying entirely in change (mostly pennies), since she needed to get rid of all her U.S currency before moving. We spent the next 2 minutes or so hastily shoving as much change at a time as we could manage into the tiny little coin slot. We ended just ONE PENNY short of our total, but the cashier let us go anyway! The long and short of it: we paid for $5.42 worth of baking supplies with $5.41 worth of change. Which, as Quanta pointed out, is basically like getting it for free!

Once at my house, the baking commenced. Despite a small fiasco with an egg shell that was recovered later in the baking process, cake making went off without a hitch and for the next 30 minutes we retired from the kitchen for a photo shoot, as is customary with most professional bakers.

After taking it out of the oven...

We tried our best to stave off impatience and impending starvation while the layers cooled. You can see the yummy homemade frosting sitting on the burner behind the cake. It still amazes me that everything was from scratch.

Finally, it was done! The picture of the entire thing is lost, somehow, but let me tell you-- it was a thing to behold. We frosted between the layers and everything. I'm tearing up just thinking about how beautiful it was...

And how delicious...

Such is the legend of two cakebakers and a dog named Gus.

High Five!

The End.