Baking is one of our favorite things to do in the kitchen. From apple pie to zebra sugar cookies. Since we have adequate experience in the baking department we like trying more challenging recipes. We tried this coconut cake from the Martha Stewart baking book. The cake part was simple but the icing was something called 7 minute icing. Two things happened. First, the cake was slightly over done. Which resulted in a chain of science experiments using different oven thermometers to test the accuracy of our apartment oven. Second, the first batch of icing just stayed a thick milk consistency. So after that we had to get more eggs- ( 6 egg white!)And remake the icing. It seems that the first batch didn’t get hot enough when you had to whisk it . Finally the cake and icing were merged together~ two nights of fooling with it. It was ok, not very coconutty though. So still looking for a good recipe....( I wonder if that cup of egg yolks is still lingering in the back of the fridge?)
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