The Whitman Chronicles

Best of All

I feel like I can finally trust again. And words cannot accurately describe that feeling.

For Serious Guyz

I really like this one. She makes me want to be a better person even when she’s not around. It’s nuts. What do they call these again?

Ah yes, feelings!

Adventures in Baking: Mocha Espresso Bundt Cake with Coffee Buttercream

Yes, dear friends, it is back! The adventures have started anew! 

This cake was made to be eaten and judged by my coworkers for our first annual Bake-Off. The inspiration for this was, of course, coffee since I figured that all accountants drink coffee to survive like I do.

The cake is a foam cake which, for you that don’t know, means there’s no butter in it. Instead of the usual creaming base of butter, sugar, and eggs this uses both heavy cream and half and half in lieu of butter. Other than that there isn’t too much to it. A pretty basic chocolate cake with the addition of ground espresso beans which I ground with a mortar and pestle to really bring out the flavor. After baking this sucka we got this:

B-E-A-utiful!

And after a bit of cooling I halved the cake width-wise and put the coffee buttercream in the middle to almost make it look like a cake burger (or something?) which yielded our final product:

Finish with a bit of powdered sugar and you’re good to go! Now, the competition wasn’t so much a competition because I was under the belief that the judges would be judging unbiasedly but that twas not the case. I ended up finishing 3rd, which was a huge disappointment IMO. The judges said that if it was just chocolate and not coffee it would’ve won because they don’t like coffee.

WELL I WASN’T MAKING THE FUCKING CAKE FOR YOU!! If it tasted like coffee and espresso then I did what I was supposed to! My cake was easily finished first by everyone else at the office though and many people expressed disappointment that I didn’t win. As long as I have the spirit of the people on my side I guess I can claim a moral victory, but next year the competition will crumble under the weight of my awesome cake!

Glad to be back y’all!

Dear Tom Hardy

Shave your fucking face. You look like a homeless man.

Sincerely, 

Whitman

I’m Baking Again

Watch out coworkers, your waistline just got bigger