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Bake It So: Come to the Dark Side, We Have (Chocolate) Cake!

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There’s not much out there better than cake.

Except cake with beer in it. And not just any beer, mind you, because you can’t put Budweiser in a cake and expect it to turn out. Oh, no. This cake calls for the greatest of all beers: Guinness. Guinness + sour cream creates one of the most moist, delicious cakes I’ve ever had, and it is, quite simply, to die for.

I’ve adapted our recipe slightly from this recipe at Epicurious. But know, no matter what, this cake is Captain Picard approved:

For ingredients and the recipe, see after the jump. Continue reading →

Announcing a new feature: “Bake It So”

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Like many features on this blog, our new column started as a discussion on Twitter, and much like Bria’s epic re-read of the EU, it wasn’t serious until the Captain of the Blog decided that it was a fantastic idea and we needed to do it. Apparently, he’s not done enacting revenge on Bria for her costume enabling, and revenge is falling on me for my failure to finish a certain Karrde/Shada fanfic that I was writing.

All this started with my attempt at making pumpkin pie from a real pumpkin. That didn’t go too well, but pumpkin pie was later achieved, and Brian thought this was wonderful, and somehow, the idea of geeky recipes started floating around. Personally, I think this is just a ploy on Brian’s part to have a list of things that he knows Bria and I can make so when the Tosche Station staff gets together, he can start bribing us into making him awesome food.

So stay tuned for our new recipe and cocktail feature: “Bake it So” and join us tomorrow for our first recipe: “Come to the Dark Side: We have (Chocolate) Cake!”