Recipe of the Day - Special Request

By Special Request, a reprint of this recipe:

Chocolate Guinness Cake

8 oz Butter, room temperature
8 oz Soft dark brown sugar
10 oz Self-raising flour
1 tsp Baking powder
1 pinch Salt
4 rounded tablespoons Cocoa
Grated rind of 1 orange (optional)
4 Eggs
1 tablespoon Vanilla extract.
1/2 cup Guinness

glaze (optional)
8 oz Confectioners' sugar
Orange(juice, grated rind)
Water

Preheat oven to 375F. Grease bundt Pan.

Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Sift the flour, baking powder, salt and cocoa into a bowl. Add the orange rind to the creamed butter and beat in the eggs, one at a time, including a spoonful of the measured flour mixture with each one, and beating well between additions.

Gently mix in the Guinness, a tablespoonful at a time, including another spoonful of flour with each addition. If there's any flour left over, fold it in gently to mix; blend thoroughly without over-beating. lightly pour mixture between in the tin, smooth down, and put the cake into the center of the preheated oven.

Reduce the heat to moderate (350F) and bake for 35-40 minutes, or until the cake is springy to the touch and shrinking slightly in the pan. Turn out and cool on a wire rack. . Meanwhile, make the glaze.

Glaze:

Mix powdered sugar and juice with grated orange rind. Mix to desired consitancy. Apply to cooled cake in the desired fasion. (You can omit the glaze and just dust with powdered sugar.)

Serving Tip: Serve warm with a scoop of Vanilla Ice Cream. The warm earthy cake with the cold sweet ice cream makes a nice and
satisfying contrast.)

Spice House Review

A week or so ago, I wrote a review of The Spice House Cafe on Yelp

Here it is - with a picture!



"Out in space, an alien flotilla waits. Patiently eating up the parsecs, they approach Earth. Silent. Unstoppable. They reach Earth, and make their demands.

French Toast. Yes, this fleet has come to try out one of Earth's breakfast cusines. Batter-dipped fried bread. All of human existence depends on how well the alien's demands are met for this food.

If the aliens are taken to Denny's or Burger King for their French Toast, Earth will be destroyed. And rightfully so.

No, there's only once place to take them to. Only one place will save the Earth

3249'52.83"N by 117 8'2.57"W

Spice House Cafe. A tower of French Toast, piping hot, melting butter diluting the powdered sugar, syrup running down the stack.

The aliens feed, overwhelming the poor helpful waitress. They finish. The alien version of a smile creases their slightly sticky and satiated faces. Leaving some priceless grebiling gems as a tip, they board their spaceships and leap for the vastness of space, bearing tales of the wonders of Spice House Cafe's French Toast.

You don't have to be an alien to partake of their French Toast though. Simply go to Spice House Cafe and order a stack.

I doubt you'll be disappointed. Or leave hungry."

Spice House Review

A week or so ago, I wrote a review of The Spice House Cafe on Yelp

Here it is - with a picture!



"Out in space, an alien flotilla waits. Patiently eating up the parsecs, they approach Earth. Silent. Unstoppable. They reach Earth, and make their demands.

French Toast. Yes, this fleet has come to try out one of Earth's breakfast cusines. Batter-dipped fried bread. All of human existence depends on how well the alien's demands are met for this food.

If the aliens are taken to Denny's or Burger King for their French Toast, Earth will be destroyed. And rightfully so.

No, there's only once place to take them to. Only one place will save the Earth

3249'52.83"N by 117 8'2.57"W

Spice House Cafe. A tower of French Toast, piping hot, melting butter diluting the powdered sugar, syrup running down the stack.

The aliens feed, overwhelming the poor helpful waitress. They finish. The alien version of a smile creases their slightly sticky and satiated faces. Leaving some priceless grebiling gems as a tip, they board their spaceships and leap for the vastness of space, bearing tales of the wonders of Spice House Cafe's French Toast.

You don't have to be an alien to partake of their French Toast though. Simply go to Spice House Cafe and order a stack.

I doubt you'll be disappointed. Or leave hungry."

Postaldroid

When I was down in San Diego on Friday, I found these examples of the Post Office's new R2-D2 mailboxes.

( Postal Astromech behind cut )

Postaldroid

When I was down in San Diego on Friday, I found these examples of the Post Office's new R2-D2 mailboxes.

( Postal Astromech behind cut )