Username: Sandy Hoofprints
Show name: Secret Ingredient
Call name: Amore (Italian for love, my Nanny loved all things
Italian, her name was Nina which means little girl in Italian)
Sex: stallion
Halter: black and white check, gold buckles please
Height: 11.1hh
Prompt: My Nanny's recipe for chocolate cake I've never had anything
better in my life, it's really light and fluffy and not overly chocolately. I used
to help her bake as a kid, back when I was so small she would go out to the
garage and get a chair for me to stand on to reach the counter, and I wasn't
allowed to use the electric whisk. It was a regular thing for years, until I had
learnt every in and out of the recipe, exactly what colour it should be, how
to add a little boiling water or milk if it seemed too dry. I still swear by the
intricacies of it all, they are hard to write down, but here's the basics -->
Shortly before I turned 16, Nanny was in the kitchen making a cake. She took
it out of the oven to cool before icing and went out into the back garden to
bring in the washing. She fell on the step and broke her neck, and she never
came home to ice that cake... That was 4 years ago and I still make cake
more than anything else. I sell it at bake sales at university and make it for
my Granda (her husband). It brings me some peace to know that the things
she taught me will never leave me, even when she's gone. <3
(ignore the white in the pic, it was squirty cream that failed miserably)
Recipe:
8oz butter (proper Irish stuff is best)
8oz SR flour
~2tbsp cocoa powder
(I add cocoa to flour until the right colour)
8oz caster sugar
4 eggs
preheat oven
grease tins with butter then flour
1. Cream butter and sugar
2. Add 1/4 flour mixture + 1 egg, whisk in
3. Repeat, until all is mixed
4. Add to baking tins and get into the oven asap
(it starts reacting and losing the ability to rise)
5. Remove from the oven after approx 30-45mins
(we used to know by eye and the smell, and if it's
ready it will spring when you press a finger in it)
