today i will cook my father a birthday dinner in honor of his birthday this saturday...
in celebration of his his german heritage i am making the following:
rouladen
sauteed red cabbage
potato dumplings
sour cream gravy
german chocolate cake
and to round it all out a delicious and heady german beer served up in big old heavy steins...
now the cake has already surprised me in that when i think of german chocolate cake for some reason i always remember it as being kind of a heavy or dense cake...but it's not...the batter ends up being so very light in color, and the way it is constructed with a gentle folding of egg whites in at the end makes it a very light and almost fragile batter...regardless of the cup of butter!...
it also calls for a tablespoon of baking soda which seems like a lot, but works in giving the cakes that *fuzzy* kinda acidy chocolaty taste we associate with a german chocolate cake...
and seeing as the recipe for the frosting calls for 8 egg yolks and does a 10 minute cooking stirring kinda thing, not to mention the addition of neary 2 cups each of coconut and pecans i do believe it is the frosting that gives german chocolate cake it's heavy quality...
(i could make a really great joke here, but alas i am out of time for such pursuits)
today is also the birthday of le petit prince!!!...my darling little godson is a year old today and couldn't be more charming if he tried...of course with his parents he couldn't be anything but charming...and slightly off his rocker...
i have a child to collect from preschool, a child to haul through the rest of the school day, a latin test to administer, a frosting to make and a dinner to assemble so i am off...
enjoy the day and i'll save you a piece of cake!
x.
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my darling lala, i am so proud to say that it was indeed as delicious as it was beautiful!
though, it is moments like this i wonder why it is we DON'T have a digital camera!
x.
p.s. doesn't everyone love betty in a pinch or as a rule!...can't beat her!
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