{"id":7900,"date":"2011-05-27T09:12:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T15:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=7900"},"modified":"2012-01-03T15:35:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T22:35:49","slug":"let-me-eat-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2011\/05\/let-me-eat-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Let me eat cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRIDAY!! &#8211; a week of long days of work, working and playing with Bear and Bob and avoiding yard work&#8230;the grass is nearing the 1 foot level :(<\/p>\n<p>My sweet tooth is not large and I&#8217;m not much for cake but every once in awhile a piece of cake sounds good.  And then I saw this sweet recipe: <a target=\"Texas chocolate sheet cake for two\"  href =\"http:\/\/www.dessertfortwo.com\/2010\/05\/texas-chocolate-sheet-cakes\/\" title=\" Texas chocolate sheet cake for two\"> Texas chocolate sheet cake for two<\/a>.  Perfect!  Even though I am one, cake for 2 is a better size than a cake that serves a crowd.  <\/p>\n<p>For my international readers, don&#8217;t despair &#8211; I didn&#8217;t know what &#8220;Texas&#8221; sheet cake was until I googled it and even the google results were mixed as usual.  However, the majority of entries agreed that it is a rich chocolate sheet cake topped with a chocolate-pecan &#8220;frosting&#8221; when the cake is warm so that the frosting is kind of absorbed into the cake.<\/p>\n<p>The frosting part was too much sweet and too much chocolate for me, but the tiny cakes &#8211; right up my alley!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May11\/Cake0586.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May11\/Cake0586.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The recipe mixes up and is in the ramekins in about 10 minutes.  30 minutes to bake, another 10-15 to cool and there is cake.  I did fancy up one of them with some frosting, coconut and dried sweet cherries&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May11\/Cake0617.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May11\/Cake0617.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, boy!  Let me eat cake!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRIDAY!! &#8211; a week of long days of work, working and playing with Bear and Bob and avoiding yard work&#8230;the grass is nearing the 1 foot level :( My sweet tooth is not large and I&#8217;m not much for cake but every once in awhile a piece of cake sounds good. And then I saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9641,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7900\/revisions\/9641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}