welcome friends welcome back to the
kitchen you know there's times when
just julie and i around the house and we
just need a little bit of dessert we
don't need a big dessert and we don't
need dessert for days
so for those times um we've got a bunch
of smaller cake recipes that really just
are for two people
this cake recipe fits in
a tiny little six inch cake pan
perfect size just for the two of us or
maybe just a little bit extra to take
for lunch tomorrow
so in this bowl i've put some flour
to that i'm going to add cocoa powder
some salt
and baking soda
and i'll just give that a little bit of
a stir to bring it together you don't
have to stir it too much
that's good so set that aside now in
this bowl
i've got some
butter
and some sugar
and i'm just going to cream that
together
now to the butter and sugar i'm going to
add an egg yolk you don't need the egg
white
but if you
don't have another use for the white and
you don't want to waste the white you
can definitely put the entire egg in
it's not going to ruin the cake change
the texture a little bit but it's not a
huge deal if you use the entire egg i'm
also going to put in a little bit of
vanilla and i'll just continue
bringing that together
now we're ready for the final assembly
so i need
a quarter cup of coca-cola
and
pour that out let it foam down
a little bit more
okay
so i've got
the flour mixture i'm going to put in
probably about a third of that
mix it in
and i'm going to alternate dry liquid
dry liquid so this is buttermilk this
recipe started out as a chocolate
buttermilk cake
and the buttermilk was important in that
other cake because the acid in the
buttermilk activated the baking soda
the acid in the coke will activate the
baking soda
so you don't have to use buttermilk
don't go out and buy buttermilk
specifically for this recipe
you can use regular milk it'll be fine
so i'm going to put in about half of the
buttermilk
i'm going to pour in
a little bit of the
coca-cola and then i'll go back to the
flour and i'll just keep doing this
until it's all mixed together
there we go it's all mixed together so
i've got the
little cake pan it is buttered and i've
got a parchment disk in the bottom just
to make the whole thing easier to get
out at the end
and we'll get this batter into the pan
smooth that into the edges
and into the oven
now the cake is cooling here on the
counter top so we're going to make the
icing
pretty basic icing i've got some butter
and i'm gonna put that into this pot
to melt
and along with melting the butter i've
got some chocolate chips to melt in
and some powdered cocoa
and so this is just on a fairly gentle
heat
to melt all of these things together
not too hot you don't want to scorch the
chocolate chips
if you are at all worried about
temperature control and scorching the
chocolate getting it too hot and
scorching the chocolate
do this in a double boiler
or put it in put the the butter and the
chocolate chips into a glass measuring
cup and stick it in the microwave and
melt it that way
chicken
what are you doing
chicken was operating the stereo over in
the corner of the studio what was i
saying um
do it a double boiler if you're at all
worried about scorching it this is a
really nice induction cooktop i've got
some pretty precise control over the
temperature in the heat i'm not all that
worried about it
so now we're going to put in
about three tablespoons of coke
just to give it a bit of that caramely
flavor
okay and at this point i'm going to pull
that off of the heat
temperature is pretty good so we're
going to put in
some vanilla
and
i'm going to switch
to a whisk
now i've got
icing sugar i'm going to put in about
half of the icing sugar that i need
and we'll whisk that in
recipe says about a cup of icing sugar
in most cases that's going to do it
sometimes i end up
having to put in maybe a quarter cup
extra just to kind of get the texture
and consistency right
and this one is a little bit difficult
to tell sometimes because
you have warmed the chocolate and the
butter
and as it cools down to room temperature
it will solidify
so it's one of those um
it's one of those trial and error things
the first time you make it you're gonna
say
that's not right but then it turns out
that it is
and so you
you kind of need to learn from your past
mistakes
a little bit runny okay
i'm gonna say that's good so i'm gonna
let this cool to room temperature and
then we're going to ice the cake
hey glenn hey jules hey friends hey cake
tiny little tiny little cake for two
i'll get myself a little fork could even
be cake for three
no
maybe it is kind of big for two although
you know maybe if you're going to have
it over i'll stay on the side a couple
of uh
i mean a quarter of a cake seems like
a lot
when you say it out loud
looks good all right
okay
there we go so
coca-cola cake
oh
so there's coke in the cake and there's
a little bit of coke in the
in the frosting or the icing what are
you hoping for
um
so the coke brings acid yeah and so that
may that will make it a more tender cake
you're not going to get a whole lot of
flavor
you know it's not going to taste like
coca-cola but i wonder if coca-cola like
some other things will enhance the
chocolate flavor
you mean like coffee or stout
but it makes a really tender cake
a little bit of caramel flavor
it does enhance the chocolate
but there's no
there's no definitive coca-cola flavor
no i wouldn't expect that no you
wouldn't know if
if you didn't know you wouldn't know
which is a meme that's trending right
now
about our coca-cola video
if you know you know if you don't know
you'd anyway i don't know i don't know
what it was something like that
okay well you know you and i just
polished off yeah maybe it is only just
for two
maybe just for one maybe i won't share
any more
so that's a good cake it's a good size
it's a manageable size
it's cake and i'm gonna eat it now i've
always eaten the whole thing thanks for
stopping by see you again soon
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