Chaotic Coffee Klatch (tea also available)

[DarkRaven13]

If a movie were made about this thread, who would you want to play you?

I would like someone like Rooney Mara ... but likely, it would be someone more like Ellen Page....before he became Elliott

 

[hotoldrguy]

I'm getting ready to make my boozie cherry upside down cake again!

Is it upside down because you get too boozy?

 

[DarkRaven13]

I have no idea

Can we choose for you? I'm voting for Michael Fassbender!

 

[hotoldrguy]

Dick Van Dyke for me

 

[LupineOne]

Can we choose for you? I'm voting for Michael Fassbender!

Go for it. I’ll take that

 

[Sexy_Singer]

And who would play you Grant?

Me? I'm the narrator.

 

[cascadiabound]

Is it upside down because you get too boozy?

No... when I make it I use the vodka soaked cherries I've strained off after making Cherry Bounce liquor

 

[hotoldrguy]

No... when I make it I use the vodka soaked cherries I've strained off after making Cherry Bounce liquor

Sounds yummy

 

[Sexy_Singer]

And who would play you Grant?

Seriously. Maybe Richard Thomas or Michael York.

 

[AngelWithAShotgun]

So you'll play yourself?

I think we all play ourselves here

 

[LupineOne]

I think we all play ourselves here

That would work best, I think...the spark of Chaos wouldn't be there otherwise

 

[cascadiabound]

Sounds yummy

I think the recipe and picture of a serving is back in the depths of this thread maybe 10 days ago or so?
@Photog1rl ? Help me out maybe?

 

[hotoldrguy]

I think the recipe and picture of a serving is back in the depths of this thread maybe 10 days ago or so?
@Photog1rl ? Help me out maybe?

10 days of Chaos?!

 

[AngelWithAShotgun]

Dick Van Dyke for me

Diagnosis Murder

 

[Sexy_Singer]

I think we all play ourselves here

Perhaps...but then the movie company fires us all because there's too much chaos

I digress.

 

[AngelWithAShotgun]

I think the recipe and picture of a serving is back in the depths of this thread maybe 10 days ago or so?
@Photog1rl ? Help me out maybe?

I can only handle going back a page or two of chaos, good luck with 10 days

 

[Sexy_Singer]

10 days of Chaos?!

Is that a new holiday song?

 

[hotoldrguy]

Is that a new holiday song?

maybe it should be.....

 

[Sexy_Singer]

maybe it should be.....

I like it...

 

[DarkRaven13]

Is that a new holiday song?

I think that holiday song would really be the 69 days of Chaos?

 

[cascadiabound]

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Here's the basic recipe: Cherry Chocolate Upside Down Cake

For the cherry part:
2 c cherries
1/3 c sugar
1 tsp corn starch
combine and toss together, spread evenly over the bottom of a prepped cake pan (grease and flour 9" round pan, line bottom with parchment paper) note: I used cocoa powder rather than flour on the pan so that there wouldn't be white flour dusting my chocolate cake. Also I used a spring form pan which made it super easy to get out.

For the cake part:
1 c sugar
1 c flour
1/3 c + 1 Tbsp cocoa powder (use the highest quality you have/ can get)
1 t baking soda
1/4 t salt
2 eggs
1/2 c soured milk (just add 1 tsp vinegar or lemon juice to 1/2 c milk - it will sour it immediately)
1/2 c brewed black coffee (I make wicked dark french roast coffee in a french press, so that is what I used)
1/4 c vegetable oil
1/2 t vanilla extract

Combine all of the cake ingredients in a mixing bowl and beat for 2 minutes. Then pour slowly over the cherries.
Bake 350 F 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Cool for 5 minutes and then turn out onto a serving plate.

Note: I had a bunch of cherries that I used to make "Cherry Bounce" earlier this year - it is just vodka with sugar and fresh cherries allowed to sit for 6-12 months, then you strain off the whole fruit to get a delicious liquor. I could not bear to toss the extremely boozie cherries (they were my own home grown sour cherries), and so I had been looking for a recipe that I could use them in. So I substituted fresh cherries with these very boozey cherries. To counteract the alchol I doubled the sugar and the corn starch called for in the recipe.

Serving recommendation - serve with freshly whipped cream drizzled with caramel sauce.

And yes, as @LupineOne noted - pretty damn near orgasmic!

 

[cascadiabound]

10 days of Chaos?!

I can only handle going back a page or two of chaos, good luck with 10 days

Found it!
See above

 

[hotoldrguy]

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Looks delicious and given the ingredients, it must taste awesome

 

[AngelWithAShotgun]

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If you ever need a cleaning crew after family holidays, I'm in. Just pay me in cake please

 

[DarkRaven13]

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I suspect its Bing cherries? (I love Raniers ....but I think the Bing ones have more color in them ... and a little smokey-er taste?