The Great British Blog Off: Bitter Chocolate Stout Cake
A happy holiday season to you all, dear readers! This week has been one of those strange, slow weeks where I repeatedly lost track of what day it is. Not that it isn't a common occurrence in these pandemic times, but I had an extra dash of holiday time off to add to the confusion. I'm very lucky to work in higher ed and receive a nice long winter break around the holidays, and adding a few vacation days to round out the year means that Wednesday found me searching for things to do. Then it hit me. There are no rules here. I can do my bake on Thursday! Those who celebrate Christmas might note that Thursday was Christmas Eve, and since we had no place to go and it did indeed snow, snow, snow, I decided to spend the morning in the kitchen with my next recipe: bitter chocolate stout cake! The past few weeks have been a strange leadup to Christmas, with gifts coming in the mail sometimes disguised as ordinary Amazon packages which I accidentally opened early....