Rice Cooker Magic and Dad Jokes
Saturday, 13 June 2020 19:26So... my Mom got herself a new rice cooker. Really fancy. It's RED in color. It's small. She loves it.
However, since it's some fancy-schmancy newfangled technology stuff, she doesn't really know how to use it, LOL.
And of course, when she gets new stuff that she doesn't know how to operate, she comes and asks me. Why would I know how to use it? So I had to read the operations manual. It's actually pretty simple and self-explanatory.
Anyway, the folks find out that the rice cooker can be used to bake cakes. So they immediately try out that function, and baked a cake last night. Since they were trying it out, they used a provided recipe of a chocolate cake.
Admittedly, the cake came out looking quite nice. How smooth! Taste-wise, it wasn't anything special. Actually it didn't really taste of anything.
So, we have a secret family recipe for a chocolate cake called the Midnight Cake. I might have mentioned of it before, so some of you may have already read of it at some point in time. It uses quite a lot of cocoa powder (and absolutely no milk) so it's a very dark cake, and the family had called it the Midnight Cake. My aunt's and my Mom's recipe differ a bit (one measurement in tails and the other one measurement in grams, they come out more or less the same; Mom's has less sugar though). The name has become a joke in my immediate family though, because we tend to bake the cake at night and finish around Midnight. Double entendre, if you will.
Well, this tryout rice cooker cake was so light in color, and we finished baking it some time between 10pm-11pm. Dad called it the "11pm Cake", but whether he's talking about it not being dark enough, or the time of the baking, I don't know, but LOL. Dad joke. I didn't think my Dad would ever come up with one himself.
I'll try to bake a Midnight Cake with the rice cooker one time though, see how it turns out.
However, since it's some fancy-schmancy newfangled technology stuff, she doesn't really know how to use it, LOL.
And of course, when she gets new stuff that she doesn't know how to operate, she comes and asks me. Why would I know how to use it? So I had to read the operations manual. It's actually pretty simple and self-explanatory.
Anyway, the folks find out that the rice cooker can be used to bake cakes. So they immediately try out that function, and baked a cake last night. Since they were trying it out, they used a provided recipe of a chocolate cake.
Admittedly, the cake came out looking quite nice. How smooth! Taste-wise, it wasn't anything special. Actually it didn't really taste of anything.
So, we have a secret family recipe for a chocolate cake called the Midnight Cake. I might have mentioned of it before, so some of you may have already read of it at some point in time. It uses quite a lot of cocoa powder (and absolutely no milk) so it's a very dark cake, and the family had called it the Midnight Cake. My aunt's and my Mom's recipe differ a bit (one measurement in tails and the other one measurement in grams, they come out more or less the same; Mom's has less sugar though). The name has become a joke in my immediate family though, because we tend to bake the cake at night and finish around Midnight. Double entendre, if you will.
Well, this tryout rice cooker cake was so light in color, and we finished baking it some time between 10pm-11pm. Dad called it the "11pm Cake", but whether he's talking about it not being dark enough, or the time of the baking, I don't know, but LOL. Dad joke. I didn't think my Dad would ever come up with one himself.
I'll try to bake a Midnight Cake with the rice cooker one time though, see how it turns out.