Dry Cake

[JackLuis]

Don't you hate dry cake?

The redhead baked a lovely looking chocolate cake the other day and it came out a little dry. After a few days the remainder was getting really dry.

She made a thin simple syrup with orange flavor and we sliced a thin piece of cake and poured the syrup over it, letting it set and soak.

My daughter thought we could mix it with vodka, so I tried a shot with some of the syrup, and it was good, so I poured a bit over the cake and that soaked in really fast.

The cake now was very moist and the flavors were good together.

Now you know what to do with that left over vodka.

 

[LadyVer]

 

[Saxon_Hart]

There's no such thing as left over vodka....

 

[Handley_Page]

Add your excellent suggestion to this list:-

1. To remove a bandage painlessly, saturate the bandage with vodka. The solvent dissolves adhesive.

2. To clean the caulking around bathtubs and showers, fill a trigger-spray bottle with vodka, spray the caulking, let set five minutes and wash clean. The alcohol in the vodka kills mold and mildew.

3. To clean your eyeglasses, simply wipe the lenses with a soft, clean cloth dampened with vodka. The alcohol in the vodka cleans the glass and kills germs.

4. Prolong the life of razors by filling a cup with vodka and letting your safety razor blade soak in the alcohol after shaving. The vodka disinfects the blade and prevents rusting.

5. Spray vodka on vomit stains, scrub with a brush, and then blot dry.

6. Using a cotton ball, apply vodka to your face as an astringent to cleanse the skin and tighten pores.

7. Add a jigger of vodka to a 12-ounce bottle of shampoo. The alcohol cleanses the scalp, removes toxins from hair, and stimulates the growth of healthy hair.

8. Fill a sixteen-ounce trigger-spray bottle and spray bees or wasps to kill them.

9. Pour one-half cup vodka and one-half cup water in a Ziploc freezer bag and freeze for a slushy, refresh able ice pack for aches, pain or black eyes.

10. Fill a clean, used mayonnaise jar with freshly packed lavender flowers, fill the jar with vodka, seal the lid tightly and set in the sun for three days. Strain liquid through a coffee filter, then apply the tincture to aches and pains.

11. To relieve a fever, use a washcloth to rub vodka on your chest and back as a liniment.

12. To cure foot odor, wash your feet with vodka.

13 Vodka will disinfect and alleviate a jellyfish sting.

14. Pour vodka over an area affected with poison ivy to remove the urushiol oil from your skin.

15. Swish a shot of vodka over an aching tooth. Allow your gums to absorb some of the alcohol to numb the pain.

And silly me. I've only been drinking the stuff!!!

 

[R. Richard]

Handley Page, vodka does all that stuff, however, Everclear works even better.

 

[MatthewVett]

8. Fill a sixteen-ounce trigger-spray bottle and spray bees or wasps to kill them.

Does it kill them instantly? Because pissed off, drunk wasps sound fucking terrifying. They're assholes at the best of times. I'll buy a pint for my bee friends, though.

 

[Handley_Page]

Handley Page, vodka does all that stuff, however, Everclear works even better.

On cake ?

 

[glynndah]

KABOOM! And then the oven door blew open...

It's an old post, but this seems a fitting addition to this thread.

My husband is baking pumpkin pies at my mother-in-law's house this evening. He decided to use Alton Brown's pie crust recipe which calls for vodka instead of water, but "improve" it by using Everclear instead.

Ten minutes at 425 degrees and there was a great KABOOM! The oven door blew open and WHOOSH! Hot air and pretty blue and yellow flames shot out of the oven. The door hit my husband in the hip, causing the superheated gas to inflate his shirt and singe the most of the hairs off his belly. My mother-in-law, an innocent bystander, received a complimentary depilatory treatment on her wrist. (They're both fine and have a great story to tell at dinner tomorrow.)

And how's your Thanksgiving preparation coming along?

 

[R. Richard]

On cake ?

I never tried it on cake, but after a couple of shots of Everclear, you can have your cake and maybe think that you've eaten it too.

 

[Handley_Page]

Somewhat sadly, I have to report that Everclear is not (readily) available over here. And if it was, it would be subject to some stringent Rules for chemistry etc...
and priced at stupid levels.

 

[JackLuis]

It really is the taste of the orange and chocolate that make this a good way to recover cake that is too dry. Soaking the cake with the syrup is almost as good as adding the vodka/everclear or 151 rum, which is what I'm going to try now.

Orange Chocolate Rum Cake? Sounds interesting.

 

[Handley_Page]

It really is the taste of the orange and chocolate that make this a good way to recover cake that is too dry. Soaking the cake with the syrup is almost as good as adding the vodka/everclear or 151 rum, which is what I'm going to try now.

Orange Chocolate Rum Cake? Sounds interesting.

Rotter !

[snerk]