In article >,
Scott > wrote:

> In article >,
> Priscilla Ballou > wrote:
>
> > I'm baking a cake for a church meeting tomorrow. It's going to be a
> > 9x13 yellow cake, and I want a simple and easy yet good tasting
> > something to put on top of it.
> >
> > I've often sifted 10x sugar over a cake, but I'm wondering about 10x
> > sugar plus powdered cocoa? Would that taste funny?
>
> I've done that; tastes rather good. Even cocoa powder by itself should
> be good--the sweetness of the cake should more than offset it. You could
> also make a simple frosting out of the 10x sugar and some water, with or
> without cocoa. If you make it liquid enough, you can drizzle it over the
> cake in interesting patterns.
>
> I don't suppose you want something like a buttercream? Pretty easy, but
> of course a lot more work than just sifting sugar over the cake. The
> Cake Bible has a very nice Milk Chocolate Buttercream recipe.

I have a nice chocolate buttercream recipe, but transporting a frosted
cake is always iffy, I've found. I don't have a car, so I'll be either
hoofing it or taking public transportation. I was hoping for something
I could take in component ingredients and then assemble there.

The uncooked cocoa doesn't taste raw?

Priscilla

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