Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Fudge Tunnel of Disaster

So today I was baking a cake, big surprise, and it turned into a chocolatey volcano mess with erupting brown gobs. It was supposed to be a chocolate fudge tunnel cake; cake-like on the outside and gooey and fudgey on the inside. It sounded perfect. The ultimate desert for that time of the month when you just want to shove chocolate in your mouth so that you first dance around from sugar high and then pass out from sugar low. -Sidenote: Why doesn't anyone ever talk about "sugar lows?" We should feed kids sugar so that they run around like crazy monkeys and and then take exhausted naps.- So I made this amazing sounding cake. I cooked it in a bundt pan and followed the directions in the cookbook. When it came out of the oven, it smelled delicious and looked fabulous. But then came the moment when I turned the cake upside-down onto a plate. Apparently the cake wasn't cooked enough, and it blobbed out all over the counter. The cake did not maintain any of its shape. I had to scoop it off the counter and bake it in a large rectangle baking dish. It wasn't quite what I had expected or wanted, but it was still sweet and made of cocoa products. Lesson learned: even if the cake is supposed to be gooey on the inside, it still needs to be cooked on the outside.

1 comment:

Molly said...

Please don't ever say fudge tunnel. ever.