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To: bgill
Ha. But I wouldn't be so sure about the chocolate cake. My spouse and I were given a gift certificate to a stylish restaurant, where we tried a "flourless" chocolate cake. It looked strange, was very dark and relatively flat, as cakes go. It wasn't sweet but I liked it a lot. When I got home I researched the recipe and made one myself.

But as for other high-style recipes, meh. The only celebrity whose recipes work for me are Rachael Ray's. Hardly high-style. And even her recipes I have to adapt.

94 posted on 12/04/2016 11:30:12 AM PST by shhrubbery! (NIH!)
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To: shhrubbery!

See, you understand recipes have to be adapted.

This was a chocolate molten cake with 2 Tablespoons of flour so it’s the beaten eggs that give it a “rise” of sorts. Easy to make at home and seems to be the trending cake these days. Flat or fluffy doesn’t matter as long as it tastes good.

Yeah, I thought it maybe it wasn’t supposed to be as sweet as a sponge cake but after looking around at the Kraft, Betty Crocker and Food Network sites, they use about 1.5 cups of sugar. So, waaaay more sugar than Jean-Georges’ little quarter cup of regular sugar.

Since I’m asking the chef to be honest, I went back and calculated my ingredient cost which honestly came out to $5 and change as there’s costs in pantry items, garlic and herbs came from the garden, homemade broth from boiling down a chicken carcass and chicken wings from the freezer which are always cut off whole chickens and frozen for hot wings later (because store bought raw wings are ridiculously expensive).


101 posted on 12/04/2016 12:19:21 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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