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Post by Chuckie on Jun 28, 2020 14:22:47 GMT -5
This recipe was in our Leavenworth Times last week: Then I go online to research it, and I find the recipe VERBATIM on allrecipes!! LOL www.allrecipes.com/recipe/7565/too-much-chocolate-cake/TOO Much Chocolate Cake1 (18.25 ounce) package devil's food cake mix 1 (5.9 ounce) package instant chocolate pudding mix 1 cup sour cream 1 cup vegetable oil 4 eggs ½ cup warm water 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
EDITORS NOTE---PLEASE READ---you really MUST cook this in a D-E-E-P bundt pan like this, as it DOES "boil over" in the oven--even in THIS pan.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). In a large bowl, mix together the cake and pudding mixes, sour cream, oil, beaten eggs and water. Stir in the chocolate chips and pour batter into a well greased 12 cup bundt pan. Bake for 50 to 55 minutes, or until top is springy to the touch and a wooden toothpick inserted comes out clean (ours took WELL over an hour to be done. One of the reviewers said remember there's chocolate CHIPS in it too, so don't go by it being "gooey" as NOT done. On ours, the cake tester came out clean, but--as stated--added another 5 to ten minuets of oven time. Cool cake thoroughly in pan at least an hour and a half before inverting onto a plate If desired, dust the cake with powdered sugar. Ours rose WAY outta the pan, course I used duck eggs, which seem to make that happen every time! I just used my Mom's old trick of using a long bread knife on the cake IN the pan, and leveling it to the top of the pan so it "sets right" on the plate. I held a SMALL tea strainer over the cake, and gently spooned powder sugar in it, as I made my way around it. Then I thought, I have a jar of maraschino cherries in the icebox, why not highlight the cake a bit to show off my pan Monkey bought me, so I did!!! Used the tip of a potato peeler to cut out small circles for the cherries. I also poured a small amount of the juice over it as well--not MUCH, maybe 1.5 to 2 TBS. All raved @ the Knights, so guess it's another keeper!! And it was tasty/ RICH enough w/o the cherries, so not to worry about adding them! CHEERS! Chuckie
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Post by mach12 on Jun 29, 2020 13:29:07 GMT -5
Looks awesome! Did you use the full 2 cups of chocolate chips? That'd make it gooey for sure but isn't the rule something like the messier the better? The stuff you show up at the Knights with they must line up to make sure they get some!
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Post by Chuckie on Jun 29, 2020 21:02:34 GMT -5
Looks awesome! Did you use the full 2 cups of chocolate chips? That'd make it gooey for sure but isn't the rule something like the messier the better? The stuff you show up at the Knights with they must line up to make sure they get some! Recipe called for TWO cups, I just used a bag of chocolate chips--12 oz? SOME stayed "whole"---but perhaps that's because Monkey buys them on sale, and keeps them stored in the FREEZER!!! LOL Maybe THAT made the difference on the cooking time TOO?? Again it WAS good "as is". I don't think the cherry additions improved anything but the presentation, and all seemed to just like the "chocolate-ness" of the cake. And we don't hang out w/the Martha Stewart/Pinterest bunch, so "fancy presentation" is kinda wasted/ LOST in our crowd... LOL CHEERS! Chuckie
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Post by nana on Jun 30, 2020 15:26:26 GMT -5
Chuckie, I think you could give New Jersey Tim a run for his money if’n they ever get to have crock pot night at the brewery this fall! Come to think of it, how is it that the Knights are allowed to have gatherings? New York has gone from the worst for the virus to one of the best, due to people being careful and diligent, and the state being really strict and cautious. We are now in what they call Phase 4, where more places are open, but at only partial capacity, with a lot of protocols in place, and I do NOT want to go back to where we were in April, so I hope people don’t get too casual. But something like your gatherings at the K of C sounds very similar to our crock pot night, and as such is still a big no-no here.
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Post by Chuckie on Jun 30, 2020 20:31:12 GMT -5
Chuckie, I think you could give New Jersey Tim a run for his money if’n they ever get to have crock pot night at the brewery this fall! Come to think of it, how is it that the Knights are allowed to have gatherings? New York has gone from the worst for the virus to one of the best, due to people being careful and diligent, and the state being really strict and cautious. We are now in what they call Phase 4, where more places are open, but at only partial capacity, with a lot of protocols in place, and I do NOT want to go back to where we were in April, so I hope people don’t get too casual. But something like your gatherings at the K of C sounds very similar to our crock pot night, and as such is still a big no-no here. UHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, w/the exception of PATRICK'S DAY, a B-I-G night @ the Knights is T-E-N peeps!!! The X,Y,Z, etc generations simply do NOT join ANYTHING anymore--to include the CHURCH!!!! The Master Gardeners Club in town--some 125 years old--is about to FOLD, as the youngest member is nearly SEVENTY!!! I brought back nearly HALF the cake, so that oughta tell you something---even farming some OUT in "go" boxes! We have a BIG screen (projection) TV down there, and about EVERY Saturday we show a (DVD) movie on it. There were E-I-G-H-T peeps there last Saturday night--including the barkeep!! Monkey & I STILL haven't gone back to Mass yet, but we watch it every week online. Ti's NICE to "go back" to the Churches we visited in Ireland to go to "LIVE STREAM" Mass some Sundays!!! LOL We WILL venture back for the FIRST time this Saturday night, as the Mass is for her folks, who were MARRIED on July 4th. Only 100 people allowed in the HUGE church, AND you have to PRE-register to get in, and wear a mask @ ALL times. NO Communion on the tongue either, and IF the Priest even makes CONTACT w/an individual's HAND, he has to stop Communion, and thoroughly use the hand sanitizer. Strange times we now live in... *sigh* CHEERS! Chuckie
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Post by nana on Jul 1, 2020 7:16:05 GMT -5
Yes indeed. These are strange times. And all the states that did not learn from what happened in NY are learning the hard way now. The virus is for real. We can’t just wish it away. The people that tried to are finding that out. I am so worried here because I see people are letting down their guard. We have extremely few new cases, but it’s not zero, and it takes about 3 weeks for an uptick in cases to become evident, and meanwhile it’s been spreading that whole time. So as much as I dislike this new normal, I understand how necessary it is until they come up with a vaccine! And I just read in the paper this morning that they’re watching a new swine flu from, where else, China. Whoopee! Just what we need!
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Post by Chuckie on Jul 1, 2020 19:52:39 GMT -5
Yes indeed. These are strange times. And all the states that did not learn from what happened in NY are learning the hard way now. The virus is for real. We can’t just wish it away. The people that tried to are finding that out. I am so worried here because I see people are letting down their guard. We have extremely few new cases, but it’s not zero, and it takes about 3 weeks for an uptick in cases to become evident, and meanwhile it’s been spreading that whole time. So as much as I dislike this new normal, I understand how necessary it is until they come up with a vaccine! And I just read in the paper this morning that they’re watching a new swine flu from, where else, China. Whoopee! Just what we need! Kansas City KS, AND KCMO mandated masks YESTERDAY. The ENTIRE State of Kansas goes mandated masks tomorrow night or Friday night @ midnight. I think the State of KS had such few cases (initially) as our Governor Kelly was THEE FIRST Governor to shut the schools down!! As Monkey likes to say--from her "old days" as a bedpan jockey @ the VA--one of her Doctors used to say "children are NOTHING BUT a little petri dish, they carry AND pass innumerable diseases DAILY!!!" LOL @ any rate, we'll see how things pan out. I wear a bandanna handkerchief (think 1880's train robber) when I go from business-2-biz, as I get claustrophobic in the MASKS! I IMMEDIATELY pull it down when I get back in the "chase car". Again, prolly just betwixt me ears, but I "shut down" breathing wise when I put them on. I am NOT doubting their BENEFIT, just stating MY inability to WEAR them!!! Gonna see if any of the local Harbor Freights have any of those clear face shields... Monkey & I both carry a small bottle of hand sanitizer too, which we use when we leave a biz, finish pumping gas, etc. I'm w/you, nana, on the vaccine--I'd even sign up to be one of the LAB RATS for testing it!! CHEERS! Chuckie
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Post by nana on Jul 2, 2020 10:19:21 GMT -5
I know people who say they can’t breathe with a mask on, so they wear it under their nose or let it dangle under their chin, thus defeating the purpose. I felt it was suffocating too at first, but having to wear it the whole time I was at work, I found you get used to it after a while. Now it’s no big deal. You actually can breathe, and there’s no actual danger from carbon dioxide or anything, after all, doctors and nurses wear them literally all day (and in general people can’t smell their own garlic breath!!😂). It’s a psychological thing. The bandanna look does have that throwback Jesse James vibe, though, especially if you wear a cowboy hat with it!!
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Post by Chuckie on Jul 2, 2020 21:12:00 GMT -5
I know people who say they can’t breathe with a mask on, so they wear it under their nose or let it dangle under their chin, thus defeating the purpose. I felt it was suffocating too at first, but having to wear it the whole time I was at work, I found you get used to it after a while. Now it’s no big deal. You actually can breathe, and there’s no actual danger from carbon dioxide or anything, after all, doctors and nurses wear them literally all day (and in general people can’t smell their own garlic breath!!😂). It’s a psychological thing. The bandanna look does have that throwback Jesse James vibe, though, especially if you wear a cowboy hat with it!! Well, I ALSO wear two hearing aids--which ain't CHEAP!--and about EVERY TIME I take off one of those REGULAR elastic masks, a hearing aid goes flying!! And that's yet ANOTHER disadvantage w/the mask---being 1/2 DEAF, I read LIPS to make out the words I CAN'T hear clearly, and the mask wearers certainly defeat THAT purpose!! And I'm ALWAYS in a FEDORA, and I told the young girls @ the Quik Trip in Gladstone when I had on the bandanna mask the other day that I "felt like an old-time TRAIN ROBBER!!" And they said, "uhhhh, mister, you LOOK like one TOO!!" Damn brats!! Oh well, welcome to 2020!!!
CHEERS! Chuckie
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Post by nana on Jul 3, 2020 10:54:15 GMT -5
Hey, 2020 is now officially half over! Thank goodness! I’m still waiting for it to rain frogs and for a swarm of locusts. But every day that goes by is one day less it gets to mess with us!
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Post by cinnabar on Jul 8, 2020 19:32:21 GMT -5
chuckie we could be twins, (also long earrings get pulled off along with the hearing aids and the mask). Ifn I wear the aids the mumblers still aren't clear when speaking through their masks or plexiglass screens at the counters, I don't wear the aids I can't hear or read lips. Just stay put or just nod at what ppl say.
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Post by Chuckie on Jul 8, 2020 21:23:26 GMT -5
chuckie we could be twins, (also long earrings get pulled off along with the hearing aids and the mask). Ifn I wear the aids the mumblers still aren't clear when speaking through their masks or plexiglass screens at the counters, I don't wear the aids I can't hear or read lips. Just stay put or just nod at what ppl say. ROFLMFAO!!! I do THAT a LOT--if someone is speaking to me and starts nodding their head YES, I do the same. Vice-versa if they're shaking their heads NO! LOL They could've JUST asked me if I had committed a mass murder a county line OVER, and IF they were nodding their head in the affirmative whilst they ASKED me that, I'd nod my head YES as well!!!
I'm a GONER!!!
CHEERS! Chuckie
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Post by nana on Jul 9, 2020 8:20:18 GMT -5
That’s actually a good strategy, Chuckie! I’ve read that mimicking another person’s body language is a good way to establish rapport with them, so if they like you, they’ll be less likely to turn you in!!😃😃😃
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Post by Chuckie on Jul 9, 2020 20:46:50 GMT -5
That’s actually a good strategy, Chuckie! I’ve read that mimicking another person’s body language is a good way to establish rapport with them, so if they like you, they’ll be less likely to turn you in!!😃😃😃 OMG, it's WORSE than THAT!!! Y-E-A-R-S ago--when I FIRST started tending bar @ KofC--there was an "old guy" (younger than me NOW!) that came in and he was a "twitcher". He'd bat his eyebrows, pull his pipe outta his mouth/motion w/it almost INCESSANTLY, straighten his shirt collar constantly, etc. By the time he LEFT, he had M-E doing the same damn THINGS---and I was but 21!!! LOL
Too bad I didn't learn to mimic MILLIONAIRES!!! *sigh*
CHEERS! Chuckie
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Post by nana on Jul 10, 2020 6:39:40 GMT -5
My neighbor Ed had a twitchy habit like that too. He would lick the tips of his fingers after almost every sentence. We loved him dearly and he was the kindest, friendliest man in the world. But it’s a good thing he passed away a few years ago because with this virus thing he would have been a walking talking haz-mat danger zone!!! Baseball pitchers are the worst as far as that goes. They all seem to have a whole series of twitches they have to run through before they can throw the ball.
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