Chocolate Cake Again / Slaveship Mix

Chocolate Cake
Apricots
Chocolate Cake
Apricots
Thank goodness for the occasional soup and salad, cause I'm feeling redundant.
Might as well be honest, though. Cause I do get into phases.
Brought this, my favorite cake (or Brownie, if you're Rick), to Mace & G$'s place. Seeing friends you haven't seen in a while sure is good medicine. They also have a kick ass coop in their amazing backyard, full of bantams. Rad.

Get ready for more apricots. Lots more.
This case of cots is like the goose that laid the golden egg. Srsly neverending. Still to come: two more batches of jam, two more of booze, and a shrub.


Set List
Slaveship - Josh Rouse
There Goes the Sun - Pernice Brothers
Yours and Mine - Calexico
Dream About Flying - Alexi Murdoch
Sixteen, Maybe Less - Calexico / Iron & Wine
Savannah Smiles - Okkervil River
Party Pit - The Hold Steady
Rise Up With Fists!!! - Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins
Islands - Cat Power
California - Low

Chocolate Cake / You're Living All Over Me

That Chocolate Cake
7 ounces bittersweet chocolate, roughly chopped
1.75 sticks unsalted butter, in half inch cubes
1 cup + 2T sugar
some salt (hearty pinch)
5 eggs
1T g-free flour

- Preheat oven to 375°.
- Butter the bottom of an 8"-9" cake pan. Cut a piece of parchment paper to fit the bottom. Butter that too, and the sides of the pan.
- Using a microwave (30 second bursts, stirring in between) or a double boiler, melt chocolate and butter together until smooth and all melty.
- Stir in sugar and salt.
- Add eggs. I use a whisk and mix them directly into the batter.
- Sprinkle flour across top and stir to incorporate. You don't want to over-stir, but you don't want flour lumps either.
- Pour into prepared pan.
- Bake for 25 minutes. (Technique that's worked the best): bake for ten minutes, rotate, bake for another ten minutes, then start checking every 2 minutes. The sides will puff up and it will be jiggly in the middle. The trick is to have it be just slightly jiggly - usually around 26 minutes for me.
- Let cool on a rack for 15 minutes, then, using a plate, carefully invert pan and remove cake pan and parchment paper. Then, using your cake plate, re-invert (?) so that the top is facing up.
- Whip up some cream, make some compote, serve it to your friends whilst drinking huge bottles of bourbon.

I got the original recipe from Molly Wizenberg. Slightly modified.


Soundtrack
You're Living All Over me