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[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4438553]

Beets.

I was inspired.

[Anonymous No.4438556]

Thanks /ck/ blogger.

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4438619]

>>4438556

Always a pleasure.

[Anonymous No.4438622]

>>4438553
What is that?
>inb4 "beets me"

[Anonymous No.4438623]

>>4438622
beets me

[Anonymous No.4438641]

>>4438623
Imma gonna beet you up for that.

[Anonymous No.4438650]

>>4438623

You beet me le to it!

[Anonymous No.4438651]

Beet thread? Beet thread.

>go to store
>see beet & apple juice
>buy it
>it tastes like beets
>and apples
I don't know what you were expecting when I began this story, and I'm sorry if you feel let down by the conclusion.

[Anonymous No.4438657]

>>4438650
Relax, don't beet yourself up about it.

[Anonymous No.4438664]

More beet stories.

>be hired to kitchen
>start cutting beets
>"You cut too slowly."
>be fired two days later
Well don't that just beet all?

[Anonymous No.4438671]

pickled beets are pretty good.

[Anonymous No.4438675]

Best thread on the front page, beets everything else easily.

[Anonymous No.4438697]

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZSnUJXUQJM

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4439210]

Has anyone ever been as far as even?

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4439212]

What is this?! I don't even...

[Anonymous No.4439256]

>>4438697
i nostalgia'd hard

[OSiRiS !OSiRiS3dfk No.4439406]

>>4439212
Looks like afterbirth.

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4439526]

— "He wouldn't..."

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4439530]

D:

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4439532]

And we'll know more tomorrow!

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4439538]

For those who just joined us, I made a beet-strawberry jam, froze it in an ice tray, made a cake batter largely inspired from my Minecraft/ILY cake, and tested three different inset fillings: jam, encased chocolate square, and contiguous chocolate.

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4439545]

>>4439538

The mentioned cake.

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4439559]

This is a yeast-leavened cake, so it's going to proof in the fridge until tomorrow.

I also have to rinse my mouth with salt water because I ate some of the batter as a habit, but yeast is really nasty for your gums.

Incidentally, the frozen jam thing makes a tasty-ass frozen treat.

Accidentally, I ate way more chocolate and sugar than I intended.

[Anonymous No.4439562]

I like eating beets. They taste good and you can scare people when your piss turns red.

[Anonymous No.4439719]

Just give it up, Sceak. You're a terrible chef.

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4439966]

>>4439719

[Anonymous No.4440010]

>>4438553
That's beets? It looks like a pot of boiling water.

>>4439532
This looks like the most appetizing thing out of all your pictures. Then the first pic because it's so dark you can't really tell how disgusting it would be.

[Anonymous No.4440071]

>>4439966
Should've baked that noodle into the pizza, they might've considered it a casserole.

[Anonymous No.4440080]

Literally looks like you're boiling a bunch of baby birds.

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4440096]

>>4438553

I'm fucking scared it's going to turn out a super mess. The pieces didn't keep in place while pouring the second layer of batter, and much less while spreading it.

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4440223]

Daniel, check your e-mail.

[Anonymous No.4440252]

>>4440080
This. I thought OP was boiling unplucked crow.

[Anonymous No.4440258]

I'm sorry if I've been an ass, /ck/, and 4chan.

I never meant for it to become what it became.

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4441690]

Moving forward, bump for later.

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4443578]

I don't feel like baking right now, but bump for later.

[Anonymous No.4443581]

>>4441690
>>4443578
Give it a rest, you hideous creature.

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4444953]

Yeah, so last time it was a lot flatter. Since it's stuffed, I can't really flatten it out with a knife.

I was going to just put, like, four chocolate bars or so on top, let them melt and cool with the cake. Obviously, that won't work, so I guess I'm going to have to whip something up.

What happened is that I put the dish in in a preheated oven, and this was a cold dough, I guess the center was cool, still. The sides baked before the center, and it gave this.

This one was also vegan, so no eggs. It's pretty dense.

[None !OPIATE9fy. No.4444987]

>>4439212
this is going to get ice crystals all over

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4447322]

Turns out that oiled foil is pretty win, this is the underside. I shaved the top, and decided to go ahead as planned.

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4447325]

The crumb is a bit dense, but definitely a step towards the "brownie" texture I've been looking for.

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4447327]

Over a pound of chocolate went into making this cake.

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4447328]

Oven, spoon and shake. This is just cooling at room temperature now.

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4447329]

>>4447328

Pic.

[Anonymous No.4447360]

Add water to the chocolate to get a nice shine

[Anonymous No.4447367]

>>4447360
>Add water to chocolate.

Please die a horrible painful dead, thank you.

[Anonymous No.4447401]

>>4447367
Evidently, you have never worked with chocolate.

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4447510]

Blewmental makes a chocolate mousse with water and chocolate only.

I'm actually testing super-slow melt + temper with cocoa liqueur-based chocolate. I think the chocolate is going to stay somewhere between liquid and viscid.

But that's a lot of chocolate. If I had an iced-cream maker on a Kitchen Aid I'd definitely try the mousse thing, among others.

[Anonymous No.4447694]

I was force fed beets as a child, now I can't stand them

Fuck you Mrs. Janice

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4448360]

These sure pack a punch.

Anyway, if you try the foil thing, try to put tabs underneath because it was a real bitch to pull out.

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4448364]

Solidified in the fridge, but goes back gooey at room temperature. As predicted.

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4448370]

All the shits inside slid when pouring the second layer of batter. It's like ... someone spilled the rum on the map. It didn't matter, but I could've cut it earlier, or let it come up to temperature a bit more.

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4448374]

Contiguous chocolate is totally feasible. I was expecting it to melt and ... do what chocolate does when exposed to water, in the batter. Worked nicely.

Not entirely sure if the chocolate remains 100% solid when at room temperature. Going to carrot the cake in the freezer and give results when I'm finished with the other posts.

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4448382]

Jam also worked nicely, despite not being in the center of the square. Dammit.

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4448386]

Nice adhesion of the top layer to the cake.

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4448388]

Nice coalescence from both fillings.

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4448391]

In the interest of science, I had another square. Sadly, the jam just isn't coming through all that chocolate. The jam is really awesome on its own, but in the cake you get a hint of the strawberry, and no idea there are beets in there.

That's my biggest disappointment.

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4448398]

Beets began simmering Tue, 7:30 AM.

Cake was cut around 7:30 PM, Fri.

Four and a half days in the making.

[Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 No.4448418]

On the left is chocolate from the top layer, on the right is chocolate from the center layer.

The top layer is viscid after cooling, while the center layer keeps a nice bite to it, despite not being completely tempered.

In my opinion, one could totally serve this.

[Anonymous No.4448423]

cake eater