Monday, November 20, 2006
Ingenuity
You know how when you make muffins or a cake, the recipe tells you test it for doneness with a toothpick or cake tester? Tell me the truth: does anyone ever have toothpicks lying around? I never do (and what is a cake tester, anyway? I've never seen one.) Typically I'll just use a butter knife and deal with the divot in the surface of the cake. I'm not that fussy. Cake is cake. But! I caught a few minutes of Nigella Lawson a few weekends ago, she was making this ridiculous four-chocolate loaf cake and she said, 'Just poke it with a piece of uncooked spaghetti.' Genius! Finally, a use for the whole-wheat spaghetti taking up space in my pantry.
2 comments:
What do you do if it breaks off inside of the cake? Do you perform surgury, or do you leave it in and serve that piece to yourself?
Good question. I suppose if you make sure to insert the spaghetti lightly and in a straight up & down motion, there's less of a chance that the spaghetti will break.
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