Saturday, March 29, 2008

Marble Pound Cake



Now that the kitchen has recently welcomed a cake mixer onto its shelves, we attempted the infamous marble pound cake. The mix of Trader Joe's semisweet chocolate chips with equal weights of butter and flour make this a delectable treat on any Friday night. The decorations, simple as they were, included Ghirardelli white chocolate chips hand-placed on a basic dark chocolate ganache.

The symmetry of the dish was certainly an appealing aspect despite the fact we had to crudely reconstruct the cake after the mold held tenaciously onto several chunks from the top portion. Fortunately, the ganache provided a silky covering to this structural defect.

After pouring the ganache steadily, I found that the streams of chocolate followed the identations of the cake mold in a nealy consistent fashion. I could not help but remember the ago old adage saying that somethings are more than the sum of its parts. Glory be to the Almighty! Too often in life, you find that simple actions on your part yield amazingly unexpected results. Productivity and products are gifts from God. Just tie your camel and take the first step or two!

2 comments:

Unknown said...

this was a delicious one...

Ilana said...

tis halal. excessive nutella gives me a stomachache but loving the sweet through the love Allah leaves me wanting for more as I convert primial and instictal urges into something more to opress the forbinned inside and a flame dies down as smooth chocolate moves in the cheeks and salvorling in a swollen mouth of happiness. ready to burst with a blessed curse.

oye quantum phy is getting to my head.