OK. You think making a chocolate sheet cake would be an easy task for most, but not necessarily for Susie and Lucy. Susie had promised to make a dessert for her fellow librarians at work so she decided to make her favorite recipe for a chocolate sheet cake. It all went well until it was time for the frosting. The first batch was very runny so she discarded that to make a new batch. Lucy decided to keep the first batch to experiment with it. Well the Susie's second batch of frosting turned out just as runny, but Susie decided to pour it all over the cake any way. "Maybe it'll harden after it's on the cake." Well it didn't. Meanwhile, Lucy experimented with the first batch by boiling it more. "Maybe it would thicken up a little." After that didn't work, Lucy decided to add more powdered sugar. As she did this, the texture of the frosting greatly improved. As it turned out the recipe called for a pound of powdered sugar. How many cups is a pound of sugar? One cup is 8 oz. so two cups must be 16 oz. and that's a pound. Right? Wrong!!! Actually a pound of powdered sugar is 4 cups. Susie had only put in 2 cups so when Lucy added the extra 2 cups, the frosting was a lot better. Then the problem was how to take off the runny frosting and put on the good frosting.
First you eat a row of the cake.
Then you scrape off the runny frosting into the empty area of the cake pan.
Then you pour out the runny frosting into another container using paper towels to clean out the cake pan as much as possible.
Then using a straw, you suck out any remaining runny frosting.
Leave all the dirty dishes till later.
Finally you spread on the nice smooth expertly made frosting onto the existing cake. Voila!! You'd never know the difference, would you? By the way, it turned out delicious even though the librarians really didn't eat too much of it. They ate too much pizza. More for us here at home. MMMmmmmm good!!!!!!!!!!!
Then you pour out the runny frosting into another container using paper towels to clean out the cake pan as much as possible.
Then using a straw, you suck out any remaining runny frosting.
Leave all the dirty dishes till later.
Finally you spread on the nice smooth expertly made frosting onto the existing cake. Voila!! You'd never know the difference, would you? By the way, it turned out delicious even though the librarians really didn't eat too much of it. They ate too much pizza. More for us here at home. MMMmmmmm good!!!!!!!!!!!
1 comment:
You two crack me up. Now as a retired science teacher you should know that a cup is a measure of volume but a pound is a measure of weight. When the density of the ingredient changes, so does the weight per volume. Duh. 8 oz is the weight of a cup of water, but not necessarily anything else. Don't you miss me :-D
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