Squirrel X's Culinary Miscellany!
blackberry bliss cake
"Make anything with love, and BAM! It's a beautiful meal."
__Emeril Lagasse
"Who could ever weary of moonlit nights and well-cooked rice?"
__Japanese proverb
"What I love about cooking is that after a hard day,
there is something comforting about the fact that
if you melt butter and add flour, then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing.
It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure!"
__Nora Ephron
"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
__Elsa Schiaparelli
"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work
in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent,
so is the ballet. "
__Julia Child
"Cooking is a creation."
__Piero Selvaggio
"'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
__William Shakespeare
"Cooking is like love.
It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
__Harriet Van Horne
Blackberry Bliss Cake
Ingredients:
2 cups white sugar
1 cup butter, softened
4 eggs, beaten
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon bakin' soda
1 teaspoon bakin' powder
1 cup buttermilk
1 and 1/2 cups fresh blackberries
Icin' ***
Instructions:
1) Preheat the oven to 350�.
2) Grease and flour three 8 inch layer pans.
3) Cream the sugar and butter 'til light and fluffy.
4) Add the eggs to the creamed mixture and beat well.
5) Thoroughly combine the flour, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon,
bakin' soda, and bakin' powder.
6) Add the dry ingredients to creamed mixture alternately with
the buttermilk, beatin' 'til smooth.
7) Fold in the blackberries.
8) Pour the batter into the perpared pans.
9) Bake for about thirty minutes, or 'til the top springs back
when gently touched.
10) Remove from pans and cool completely on wire racks.
11) Stack the layers, usin' Fox Crick Icin' to fill and frost.
****Fox Crick Icin'
Ingredients:
1 cup butter softened
1 pound confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 tablespoons cold coffee
Instructions:
1) Combine all ingredients and beat 'til smooth, addin' a little more coffee if needed to achieve proper consistency.
and the best of intentions for whoever wants to try 'em,
but if somethin' goes wrong, don't blame the varmint.*
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