A recipe for the day...

In the absence of having naything of real substance to share, I would like to share a recipe and quick story regarding the idea of using what you have:

I was gifted, some time ago, actually, a large amount of Baking Cocoa. Now, I have worked as a baker, when Kenny and Zukes Jewish Deli was in its toddler stage, I cut my teeth as a production baker for this amazing Jewish Deli, producing up to 100lbs of Rye bread a day, amoung other things that I will spare you right now. But that being my only experience, when it comes to baking, I get the idea, but the execution can be porrer than my expectation. That being said, I stumbled across a recipe for flourless chocolate cake that was finally in weight measurment, instead of volume. I at least learned that much, if your baking recipe is in volumes, it was put together by an amateur. Not wanting to identify with the amateurs, I decided to give it a try:

200g Butter
220g Semi-sweet Chocolate
200g graulated Sugar
4 ea Eggs, separated.

Simple. However, not having chocolate to melt, but only the cocoa powder, I made the follwoing changes:

340g Butter
200g Baking Cocoa
200g Organic Granulated Sugar
4 ea Eggs, separated
2 ea Egg whites.

Melt the butter and cocoa together. The mixture will be somewhat dryer than the recipe above at this stage, but do not worry...

Whisk in the sugar, and when cool enough, mix in the egg yolks and the 2 extra whites. Whipe the rest of thw whites and carefully fold these into the mix until you have a uniform batter. This batter will fit perfectly into a 10 inch torte pan, and has the wonderful quality of not needing a pre-greased pan. I have, as of yet, had zero issues getting this cake out of any shape of pan, whether fluted edges or not, and the shelf-life of this has been hard to grasp, as the roommates have been eating it very quickly. I recently made my own version of orange curd, and serve this amazingly dark and rich cake with my orange curb for a familiar but nicely sophisticated flavor combination. The bitters work very well together.

Enjoy!