This week’s questions for Four Foods on Friday all have to do with parties.
#1. Cake. Buttercream, whipped cream or ice cream?
#2. When entertaining do you use real, paper, plastic or styrofoam dishes?
#3. When hosting a party do you cook, have it catered or go to a restaurant?
#4. Share a recipe that you frequently serve when having a party.
#1-Mmm, cake. The only cake I don’t like is wedding cake, to be honest. I don’t care for the thick, sugary style frosting used on it. I like chocolate cake, preferably with whipped chocolate frosting. I also like German Chocolate Cake (YUM!), and of course, Chocolate Texas Sheet Cake, which I am always being asked to bring to gatherings (see question #4 for the recipe).
#2-The only time I “entertain” is when we have family over for a holiday meal like on Easter or Christmas. We always get out our good china for that. Otherwise, if we have friends over for a cookout or something, we use strong divided paper plates like Chinet.
#3-When I invite family or friends over, Chris and I buy or cook the food.
#4- Chocolate Texas Sheet Cake:
Cake Ingredients:
* 1 cup butter
* 1 cup water
* 1/4 cup cocoa
* 2 cups sugar
* 2 cups flour
* 1/8 teaspoon salt
* 2 eggs
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1/2 cup sour cream
* 1 teaspoon vanilla
* Frosting, below
* chopped pecans
Frosting Ingredients:
* 1/2 cup butter
* 1/4 cup cocoa
* 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons milk
* 1 box (1 pound) confectioners’ sugar, sifted (4 1/4 cups sifted)
* 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Cake: Combine butter, water, and cocoa in saucepan over medium heat; heat until butter melts. Add sugar, flour, salt, eggs, soda, sour cream, and vanilla; mix well. Pour into a 15x10x1-inch jelly roll pan. Bake at 350° for 20 minutes. Spread frosting over hot cake and sprinkle with chopped pecans.
For frosting, combine butter, cocoa, and milk in a saucepan; bring to a boil. Add remaining ingredients and mix well with electric mixer. Spread over the hot sheet cake then sprinkle with chopped pecans.
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haha I’ll try to make that!
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That “thick, sugary frosting” is fondant, and as nice as it looks, it isn’t meant to be eaten! Some bakers do make much better-tasting fondants, but for the most part, you are supposed to peel it off and just enjoy the buttercream underneath.
The things one learns while wedding planning. I think we’re going to forgo the fondant entirely, since a lot of people suffer needlessly because they think it’s meant to be eaten and enjoyed.
Thanks for this, my wife will love it :)
Yum, you made me think of German Chocolate cake, especially the frosting! It’s the only frosting I will actually eat all of it and scrape the plate to get every last drop!
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Yumm, I could have some cake for breakfast right now but I don’t have any. LOL.
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I had strawberry chocolate cake over the weekend, or rather, my kids did and gave me a spoonful each :) It was yummy but I couldn’t eat a whole slice myself.
hmmmmmm… yummy! I like the recipe. My husband will surely love it.
The only cake I don’t like is wedding cake, to be honest. I don’t care for the thick, sugary style frosting used on it. I like chocolate cake, preferably with whipped chocolate frosting. I also like German Chocolate Cake (YUM!), and of course, Chocolate Texas Sheet Cake, which I am always being asked to bring to gatherings (see question #4 for the recipe).