[LMB] After Battle Chocolate Cake (you decide if OT)

[Harimad]

I found this in my computerized recipe file - which is even more
insidious than a paper recipe file.  My friend gave this to me years
ago but I haven't tried it.  Has anyone?

Why might this be on topic?  Because it's from Pat Wrede's "The Book
of Enchantments" (which I really should read one of these days). 
Perhaps Pat tried it out on Lois during the writing process?

This is the recipe as used by the barbarian swordsman (according to
the friend who gave it to me; checking this is one reason to read the
darn book).

butter the size of a good spearhead
a good big fistful of brown sugar
a big fistful of white sugar
a couple of eggs
a good splash of vanilla
Secret Magic Ingredient
milk from a chocolate cow
a small fistful of cocoa
two or three fistfuls of flour
a pinch of salt
two pinches of soda
hunk of chocolate, hacked into bits with second-best sword

- First, round up the prisoners and have them make a good fire.  Pile
shields around it to hold in heat.
- Pick a small shield and clean it, then grease it up good.  Sprinkle
in a little flour and save it for later.
- In somebody else’s helmet, beat butter and brown sugar and white
sugar together – make sure helmet is clean before using!
- Add eggs and beat some more.
- Add vanilla and Secret Magic Ingredient and beat it all again.
- Stir flour, cocoa, salt and soda together in whatever is handy.
- Add to batter, alternating with milk.
- Beat real good.
- Stir in chocolate pieces.
- Dump batter into greased shield.
- Bake next to fire while gathering loot.
- Give helmet back to sucker who let you mix cake in it; promise him
first piece if he gets too mad.
- Eat warm while counting loot.
- Serves two.


The more conventional version (again, according to my friend; they
seem plausible, at least).

1 stick butter
.5 c. brown sugar
.5 c. white sugar
2 large eggs
2 t. vanilla
2 T. blackstrap molasses
2/3 c. chocolate milk
1/3 c. unsweetened cocoa
1 c. flour
.5 t. salt
1 t. baking soda
2 c. choc. chips

- Cream butter till fluffy.
- Add sugars, cream again.
- Add eggs, vanilla and molasses, beating well after each addition.
- Mix dry stuff.
- Beat into butter, alternating with milk.
- Beat 1-2 min.
- Add chips.
- Pour into greased, floured 9x13” pan.
- Bake at 350F for 35-40 min.  Cake will be sort of flat and solid,
not puffy.
- Let cool, or pieces will fall apart & gooey chocolate will get all
over everything.
- Serves more than two.

Harimad


 
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