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Tuesday, 2 June 2015
Tuesday, 5 May 2015
Cake Monday: May
We race (electronically) and the loser has to bake a cake to feed the office.
Why? Because we like cake.
Who? Everyone in the office. No one gets out of it. When? 1st Monday of the month. The rules: you make the cake yourself, without any help. You can't 'repeat' a cake. Your cake will be judged on presentation, difficulty and taste, and marked out of 10 by each colleague. When you have baked 3 cakes, you are out of the competition for 1 year.
Milkybar Cake by Katie. Last time Katie improvised for all kitchen utensils and equipment she didn't have (empty beer bottles were used to measure liquid). This time, Katie was determined to make a good cake and borrowed everything from Teresa (and a neighbour). She used a recipe off the internet, but realised as she combed the supermarket shelves for 'cake flour' that the recipe was in fact American and their terminology is quite different to ours. Thank goodness for smartphones and Google.
Once home, she creamed the butter and sugar by hand (not sure why when she had electrical equipment available this time?) and added in a milkybar yogurt for good measure - her own addition to the recipe. The butter cream icing was also made with a melted milkybar and was used to sandwich the cake together. The icing was piped on top of the cake and a milkybar button was placed onto each piped section.
The Verdict:
The cake was liked, the only downsides generally related to how sweet it was and that it was deemed a simple cake to make. BUT, the sponge was 'light, fluffy, and moist' - so moist in fact, that it was like drinking a drink at the same time for Callum (??). The cake was well executed and quietly quite subtle compared to Katie's last glitter-adorned cake.
Milkybar Cake Average Score: 7.75
Next time: George. It's been a year since her last Cake Monday cake. The pressure is definitely on.
Monday, 13 April 2015
Cake Monday - April
We race (electronically) and the loser has to bake a cake to feed the
office.
Why? Because we like cake.
Who? Everyone in the office. No one gets out of it. When? 1st
Monday of the month. The rules: you make the cake yourself, without any
help. You can't 'repeat' a cake. Your cake will be judged on presentation,
difficulty and taste, and marked out of 10 by each colleague. When you have
baked 3 cakes, you are out of the competition for 1 year.
'Healthy Chocolate Cake' by Teresa.
Teresa has been very vocal about her hatred for how popular chocolate
cake is for Cake Monday. So when we walked in and saw a chocolate cake, we knew there had to be a catch. So how do you make
a chocolate cake healthy? You make it with beetroot of course! This was a very
adventurous cake and it was not easy to create this delicious cake sensation.
Teresa had to use a lot of bowls, six in total (and therefore she had a lot of
washing up). They were needed because of the many different ingredients that had
to be mixed separately. Separate bowls were as follows: 1) puréed beetroot 2)
melted chocolate and butter 3) egg yolks 4) egg whites and sugar 5) flour, coco
powder and baking powder and 6) whipping cream. Bowls 1-5 were mixed separately
and then folded in to each other and bowl 5 was used for a light topping.
Chocolate buttons were added for decoration.
The Verdict:
It’s safe to say we were all (well nearly all)
converts for beetroot cake and most were shocked at how nice a cake with
beetroot in could be. The cake itself was moist and chocolatey but not too sweet
and the healthier option of light whipping cream rather than double cream complemented
the rich cake beautifully. Jamie H declared it his favourite Cake Monday ever
and it received two 10/10 scores (an Enterprise Recruitment first). Even those
who don’t like beetroot liked this cake. However, not everyone was impressed
with Teresa’s out of the box thinking, shockingly chocaholic Andrew said it was
dull and uninteresting, unless you were diabetic. Overall the cake was a winner
and goes straight in to the joint top of the leader board with an 8.8.
Next time: Katie. All of us are nervous.
Healthy Chocolate Cake
Average Score: 8.8
Wednesday, 1 April 2015
Will it work?? Suction bird feeders.
We love our Blue Tit, so much so that Jamie brought in a bird feeder. Our office is on the top floor of the building in line with the Blue Tit's nest. There's a certain amount of anticipation as to whether the bird feeder will stay on the window or whether it will fall off and smash the BMW below. We also don't know if large almonds are his thing....will keep you posted...
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