Filed under: Life Goals, food | Tags: baking, Blackberry, Buttermilk Cake, funemployment, recipe
Here’s a simple buttermilk cake recipe. Not only is it incredibly easy to make, but it is also delicious, and has the perfect consistency. The texture is just light enough that I ate the whole thing (minus a few pieces shared with my temporary roommates) all by myself and didn’t feel the huge fatty that I am! Anyways:
Buttermilk Cake + Blackberries
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 t baking powder
- 1/2 t baking soda
- 1/4 t salt
- 1/2 stick butter (softened)
- 2/3 c sugar (+ extra for top)
- 1/2 t vanilla
- 1 egg
- 1/2 c buttermilk
- Whisk: flour, baking powder, baking soda, & salt. Set aside.
- In separate bowl, beat: butter & sugar until fluffy (~ 2 min). Add vanilla & egg. Beat well.
- Mix in flour in 3 batches, alternating with buttermilk. So: flour, buttermilk, flour, buttermilk, flour. Mix until just combined.
- Spoon into buttered/floured 8×8 cake pan. Sprinkle sugar on top.
- Optional, but delicious. Drop in ~ 1 cup ripe berry (your choice! I used blackberries.)
- Bake at 400, ~20 minutes (until knife comes out clean/golden brown.)
(Original: Gourmet)
When I get some ramekins and cream of tartar, I’m making a modified version of this Lemon Sponge Pudding Cake. And it will be delicious. When I have a house of my own/I move to Miami and have a semi-permanent address, I want to subscribe to Bon Appetit, Woman’s Day, & Gourmet.
Tomorrow I find out exactly when my funemployment comes to an end (hopefully on Wednesday!). Then I will be a carnie at Oaks Park in Portland. The first day or two (maybe even three) of being graduated were all fun and dandy, but now I’m bored. I’m getting antsy. All I do is lay in the sun, read books, think about cooking, play Left 4 Dead, and go on obscenely long walks. Which all sounds awesome, but really I’m getting bored. And mainly, I’m absolutely broke so I really could use the weekly (!!) paycheck that comes with being a carnie.
Some days I just feel like I can’t get it right. Even with someone holding my hand, guiding me step-by-step, somehow I manage to get confused and tangle myself up in ways I didn’t think were possible.
Some days I feel like Larry David meets Lost.
The texture of these bad boys is a little dense, but they’re still quite yummy and very easy to make.
Black-Bottom Cupcake
(yields 12 full-sized cupcakes)
Ingredients
filling
- 1 package cream cheese
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1/3 c granulated sugar
- 2 oz baker’s chocolate (unsweetened), coarsely chopped
cupcake
- 1 1/2 c flour
- 1 c light brown sugar
- 5 tbls unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 c water
- 1/3 c vegetable oil
- 1 tbls white vinegar
- 1 tsp vanilla
Directions
- Mix all filling ingredients in bowl.
- Beat until smooth.
- Mix flour, brown sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt in one bowl. Well.
- Mix water, vegetable oil, vinegar, and vanilla in another.
- Add to dry ingredients.
- Mix until just stirred (over-stirring yields tough cupcakes!)
- Fill buttered/floured muffin pan 80% full.
- Divide spoonfuls of filling evenly between cupcakes.
- Bake 25 minutes (or until springy) at 350 in center of oven.
(Shamelessly stolen from here.)
A really good pancake recipe (i.e. the one I use when I wanna get my breakfast on):
- 1 cup flour
- 1 1/2 tblsp granulated sugar
- 2 tblsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 cup milk
- 1 egg (beaten, obv)
- 2 tblsp vegetable oil
- 1 tblsp vanilla
- 1 tblsp cinammon
- Mix the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt together.
- Well it up.
- Mix the milk, egg, vegetable oil, vanilla, and cinammon in a bowl.
- Dump into the flour mixture.
- Whisk until smooth.
Voila! Pancake batter! Cook to your heart’s content!
