Merry Christmas Eve!<\/p>\n
We\u2019re cooking food and producing presents by the second. I made a cake today. It was supposed to be chocolate but ended up tasting more like golden syrup (total sugar) of which we used 250ml. The Afrikaans recipe called for 250ml strooisuiker<\/i>, which was interpreted as sugar syrup, which is really stroopsuiker <\/i>(suiker <\/i>means sugar). So we put a bunch of the golden syrup in and only realized our mistake when the cake and cupcakes were in the oven and I looked up the translation of strooisuiker on Mom\u2019s phone: castor sugar, which is superfine sugar.<\/p>\n
Once everything was out of the oven, we sprinkled on cinnamon and soaked it in a sauce made from sugar, butter, cocoa, cream, and cinnamon. The golden syrup made the cakes very absorbent and, in an hour, the sauce was absorbed. We added more to serve. I think we all enjoyed my cinnamon cakes, but I liked the ones Hannetjie (from Barchan Dunes) made much more.<\/p>\n
We went on a walk on the Promenade after supper and saw the pretty rainbow, sunset, and pink clouds.<\/p>\n
The present count is 21.<\/p>\n
Ciao!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Merry Christmas Eve! We\u2019re cooking food and producing presents by the second. I made a cake today. It was supposed to be chocolate but ended up tasting more like golden syrup (total sugar) of which we used 250ml. The Afrikaans … Continue reading