One Hundred Dollar Chocolate Cake I Made It

One Hundred Dollar Chocolate Cake

pointsevenout 14 years ago

Recipe by Kimberry.

One Hundred Dollar Chocolate Cake

I don't think this cake stands up to its billing.

As a cake, it is run of the mill except for being a little more chewy than a cake should be. Think it is because of the "beat for 1 minute" destruction. Although I used cake flour (which was not spec'ed in the ingredients) I think the one minute beating was excessive time made the cake tougher than it should have been.

Now some of you are going to say that "yes it does say to use flour". But SOP for recipes dictate that when flour is listed without further illumination, the flour to be used is assumed to be all-purpose flour.

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laurieg 14 years ago said:

point whats SOP for recipes?
I don't make many cakes but I have never made one that didn't have egg or oil in it? maybe that has someting to do wit the chewy consistancy. I know sometimes for fat reducing purposes I have subbed applesauce for oil and the result is a chewier cake.

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pointsevenout 14 years ago said:

SOP is: standard operating procedures.

It is assumptions that must be made when there are several choices on an ingredient when the ingredient is not specific enough.

Flour is assumed to be all-purpose flour when not modified by cake or bread or whole wheat or rye..... etc.

Sugar is assumed to be white granular sugar when not modified by powdered or icing or brown or dark brown or raw....etc.

1/4 cup garlic cloves, minced.......... presumes the garlic cloves are measured to the 1/4 cup as whole cloves then minced.

1/4 cup minced garlic cloves...........presumes the cloves are minced first then measured.

In the second example of garlic cloves there is much more garlic in the recipe.

2 cups flour sifted.........presumes the flour is measured first then sifted.

2 cups sifted flour..........presumes the flour is sifted first then measured.

In the second example there is less flour in the recipe and both flours are all-purpose flour because nothing else is specified. The default is all-purpose.

Hope you get the idea.

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laurieg 14 years ago said:

Thanks I didn't realise there was a written standard somewhere.

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pointsevenout 10 years ago said:

Was linked to the wrong place. Now corrected.

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