You know yesterday was a foreign day. I had several things go on for the get-go fourth dimension ever. One upshot y'all may conduct hold heard of was the earthquake. The epicenter is nearly xv miles from my share inwards Spotsylvania County Virginia, a few miles from Fredericksburg. I was standing inwards the forepart share talking to a co-worker when the edifice started to shake. When it didn’t halt shaking, together with started to milk tremble harder, nosotros knew it wasn’t the air conditioner or somebody moving furniture. It takes a few seconds to realize what is actually happening. It was real dramatic together with intense together with for a brief minute I wondered if somebody had bombed our piddling town. My boss ran into the forepart share telling everyone to evacuate the edifice that nosotros were having an earthquake. We knew it must conduct hold been an earthquake, but it’s almost similar it wasn’t real. It was shocking inwards a way.
We all got out of the edifice together with i time exterior I could withal experience the basis shaking. We stayed exterior for a spell until they told us it was rubber to become dorsum in. They decided to evacuate a 2nd fourth dimension due to some problems that our General Services subdivision had to fix. At this cry for they sent us abode for the twenty-four hours to banking concern fit on our ain homes, children together with animals. My dogs together with truthful cat were fine together with entirely had a few things fall and hit the floor.
If you’ve ever wondered how long xxx seconds tin seem, a vehement shaking earthquake volition reach y'all some idea. The Lake Anna Nuclear Power Plant is real unopen to our abode together with nosotros are inwards the evacuation area. Lake Anna had problems when it was striking amongst the earthquake together with straight off unopen down. The backup ability did non come upward on together with the 2nd dorsum upward was started. This could conduct hold been real bad. That seems scarier than the earthquake itself. Anyway that was a first.
Yesterday was also my birthday thus it was the get-go twenty-four hours I was 52 years old. I volition ever cry back this birthday every bit the i twenty-four hours the Earth shook. The 3rd matter that happened was I made a homemade chocolate birthday cake amongst homemade chocolate buttercream icing, together with it was good. If you’ve known me for whatever length of fourth dimension y'all likely know that I don’t brand proficient cakes. I brand pies. Big difference! There was that incident amongst the Red Velvet Cake that I’ve never lived down. Since everything was ‘different’ yesterday I somehow establish my baking mojo together with whipped upward my ain birthday cake. Maybe it was because the trace per unit of measurement area was off. Who’ll tending if it doesn’t plough out good? I won’t ruin someone’s birthday. If my cake is dry out together with non edible, I won’t fret! But wouldn’t y'all know it’s yummy!
I talked to many of my siblings, children together with traveling hubby yesterday too. One of my brothers asked if it was Armageddon upward hither amongst Hurricane Irene heading this agency for the weekend? I said it does appear similar a foreign calendar week thus if this is the end, I intend I’ll conduct hold to a greater extent than chocolate cake now. What the heck!! If this is the end, I’m going out amongst an upset breadbasket yesteryear golly!
Enough amongst the blah blah blah today! Let’s brand a cake. For the layer cake y'all volition demand butter, eggs, flour, unsweetened cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, salt, sugar, vanilla together with milk.
Lightly grease iii 8-inch cake pans amongst Crisco shortening. Line the bottom of the pans amongst waxed newspaper together with lightly grease it too.
Lightly flour the bottom together with sides of the pans.
Shake off excess flour together with laid pans aside. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a medium mixing bowl, add together the flour, cocoa, soda, baking powder, together with salt.
Whisk until blended together with laid aside.
In a large mixing bowl, trounce butter amongst an electrical mixer (or a novel birthday present) on medium speed for xxx seconds. Gradually add together the sugar, nearly 1/4 loving cup at a time, beating for nearly 3 minutes or until good mixed. Scrape sides of bowl together with trounce for ii to a greater extent than minutes on medium.
Add eggs i at a time, beating good afterwards each addition.
Beat inwards vanilla.
Blend until good mixed together with creamy.
Alternately add together flour mixture beating on depression speed simply until combined.
Alternate adding the flour together with milk simply until blended.
Spread inwards prepared pans.
It volition endure nearly ii cups of cake batter inwards each of the iii pans.
Bake for 25 to xxx minutes. Check amongst a wooden toothpick inserted inwards the center. The toothpick should come upward out clean. Do non over bake (this is where I ever mess up.)
Cool cake layers inwards pans for 10 minutes. Remove from pans together with tegument off waxed paper.
Cool completely on wire racks.
Now for the icing! Chocolate buttercream made amongst butter (of course), confectioners sugar, cocoa powder, salt, vanilla together with milk or heavy cream.
Cream the butter for a few minutes amongst an electrical mixer.
Sift 3 cups of powdered carbohydrate together with cocoa into the mixing bowl amongst the butter. Beat on depression until blended. Increase the mixer speed together with add together the vanilla, common salt together with cream. Beat for nearly 3 minutes together with H2O ice cake.
I’m non existent experienced amongst icing cakes but I heard i time y'all tin slide waxed newspaper nether the edges of the bottom layer to hold the plate neat. Seems to go for me!
Ice betwixt the layers first, thus the sides, thus the top!
Then piece together with swallow together with sing the Happy Birthday song!
I was real happy amongst the agency this turned out. That’s also a get-go for me!
Best-Ever Chocolate Cake
(I would endure happy to reach proper credit for this recipe but it has no names or identifying marks – thank y'all whoever y'all are!)
3/4 loving cup butter
3 eggs
2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 loving cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 loving cup sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 1/2 loving cup milk
Allow butter together with eggs to stand upward at room temperature for xxx minutes. Lightly grease bottoms of iii 8 inch circular cake pans. Line bottoms of pans amongst waxed paper. Grease together with lightly flour waxed newspaper together with sides of pan. Set pans aside.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a medium bowl, stir together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking pulverization together with salt. Set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, trounce butter amongst an electrical mixer on medium speed for xxx seconds. Gradually add together sugar, nearly 1/4 loving cup at a time, beating on medium speed for 3 to 4 minutes or until good mixed. Scrape side of bowl, hold beating on medium speed for ii minutes. Add eggs, i at a time, beating afterwards each improver (about 1 infinitesimal total). Beat inwards vanilla.
Alternately add together flour mixture together with milk to beaten mixture, beating on depression speed simply until combined afterwards each addition. Beat on medium to high speed for 20 seconds more. Spread evenly into prepared pans.
Bake for 25 to xxx minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted inwards the centers comes out clean. Cool cake layers inwards pans for 10 minutes. Remove from pans. Peel off waxed paper. Cool completely on wire racks.
Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
1 loving cup unsalted butter, softened
3 1/2 cups confectioners sugar
1/2 loving cup cocoa
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 tablespoons milk or heavy cream
Beat butter for a few minutes amongst a mixer on medium speed.
Sift 3 cups of powdered carbohydrate together with cocoa into the mixing bowl amongst the butter. Beat on depression until blended. Increase the mixer speed together with add together the vanilla, common salt together with cream. Beat for nearly 3 minutes together with H2O ice cake.
Thanks thus much for stopping by! I promise y'all conduct hold a dandy calendar week costless from serve conditions events or Earth movements!
Tricia
Source: savingdessert.com
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