{"id":10022,"date":"2012-10-09T01:14:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T06:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=10022"},"modified":"2022-10-07T09:48:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T13:48:41","slug":"i-wish-my-brother-george-was-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/10\/09\/i-wish-my-brother-george-was-here\/","title":{"rendered":"I Wish My Brother George Was Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6237\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/01\/17\/apple-cake\/food-header-1-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,144\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Food-Header-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6237\" title=\"Food-Header-1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?resize=640%2C144&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?resize=300%2C67&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/LiberaceCake.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10023\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/10\/09\/i-wish-my-brother-george-was-here\/liberacecake\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/LiberaceCake.jpg?fit=640%2C535&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,535\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"LiberaceCake\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/LiberaceCake.jpg?fit=640%2C535&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10023\" title=\"LiberaceCake\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/LiberaceCake.jpg?resize=640%2C535&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/LiberaceCake.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/LiberaceCake.jpg?resize=300%2C250&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/LiberaceCake.jpg?resize=179%2C150&amp;ssl=1 179w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 24px;\">I recently celebrated a birthday and was feeling peckish for chocolate cake. Not just any chocolate cake, really <strong><em>good<\/em><\/strong> chocolate cake. The recipe comes from one of my favorite cookbooks &#8211;\u00a0 <em>The Gift of Southern Cooking<\/em> by Edna Lewis and Scott Peacock and it&#8217;s amazing! The frosting, <em>Poor Man&#8217;s Whipped Cream<\/em> is my grandmother&#8217;s recipe, it&#8217;s light and just sweet enough, the perfect compliment to the richness of the cake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 24px;\">Very Good Chocolate Cake<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 cups granulated sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2 cups cake flour<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 teaspoon salt<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 teaspoon baking soda<\/li>\n<li>1 cup hot, double-strength brewed coffee<\/li>\n<li>4 ounces unsweetened chocolate, finely chopped<\/li>\n<li>2 eggs, room temperature<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup vegetable oil<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup sour cream, room temperature<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2 teaspoons vanilla extract<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 24px;\">1. Preheat oven to 325\u00ba.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2. Sift sugar, flour, salt, and baking soda in a bowl.<\/p>\n<p>3. Pour the hot coffee over the finely chopped chocolate, allowing it to melt.<\/p>\n<p>4. In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs, vegetable oil, sour cream, vanilla, and the coffee-chocolate mixture.<\/p>\n<p>5. Stir this mixture into the dry ingredients by thirds, stirring well after each addition until completely blended.<\/p>\n<p>6. Divide batter into two greased and floured 9&#8243; cake pans. Drop each cake pan once onto the counter from a height of 3 inches, to remove any large air pockets, which could cause holes or tunnels in the baked cake layers.<\/p>\n<p>7. Bake for 30-40 minutes, until the cake springs back slightly when gently tapped in the center. Let cool on a rack for 10 minutes before turning out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poor Man&#8217;s Whipped Cream<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 cup milk<\/li>\n<li>6 tablespoons flour<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon vanilla<\/li>\n<li>8 tablespoons butter<\/li>\n<li>8 tablespoons Crisco*<\/li>\n<li>1 cup granulated sugar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 24px;\">1. Combine flour and milk in a saucepan, whisk over medium heat until very thick. Remove from heat and let cool completely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 24px;\">2. Add vanilla to the flour and milk mixture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 24px;\">3. Put butter, Crisco, and sugar into the bowl of an electric mixer. Whip until light and fluffy, then add cooled flour mixture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>*If you don&#8217;t want to use or don&#8217;t have Crisco &#8211; you may substitute an equal amount of butter for the shortening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently celebrated a birthday and was feeling peckish for chocolate cake. Not just any chocolate cake, really good chocolate cake. The recipe comes from one of my favorite cookbooks &#8211;\u00a0 The Gift of Southern Cooking by Edna Lewis and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/10\/09\/i-wish-my-brother-george-was-here\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1238,4],"tags":[2002,2001,1999,1232,2000],"class_list":["post-10022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovin-from-the-oven","category-news","tag-cake-candelabra","tag-chocolate-cake","tag-edna-lewis","tag-poor-mans-whipped-cream","tag-scott-peacock"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-2BE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10717,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/12\/04\/carrot-cake\/","url_meta":{"origin":10022,"position":0},"title":"Carrot Cake","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"December 4, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been on a baking binge lately and I made a carrot cake. 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