I am fully aware how unpleasant cardamom loaf sounds, but I assure you it is awesome.
I first started my romance with cardamom at Uni when my insane friend Sufi arrived with all her eastern remedies that her mum packed with her. This girl was basically stocked to be the Dalai Lama of A&E for freshers flu. I always picture her floating around her rooms with scarves chanting and grinding up herbs. The reality is she spends more time in my room laughing at her ridiculous boobs while I grind up herbs of my own finding...
So to my point, I always wander into her room whining about a new type of feeling unwell and deciding I'm dying from what can only be described as JHS (Jewish Hypochondriac Syndrome). Sufi's go to move is always her Mum's cardamom tea. At first I spat it out because it wasn't PG Tips and I take issue with change, but then I became so obsessed with it that I started literally stealing it.
It's got an amazing fresh and exotic flavour without tasting too herby. This cake is essentially designed for eating with tea, especially herbal tea. It's totally light and yummy without being sickly and you can just eat it all day. Unfortunately it is for that reason that I couldn't get a picture of it in it's full glory. I decided to have a Bridget Jones moment and eat it straight out the pan at 5am while talking about myself. Kate bore witness to this, as she now thinks she lives at my house. She actually said 'Hi Mum and Dad!' to my parents one of the last times she came over. At this point she had met them twice.
I have been eating this cake all morning watching Pretty Little Liars deciding that I know all the answers in spite of the fact that there's a 90% chance I don't know any of them. Either way I've spent my time stuffing my face and desperately contacting Sacha Feldman to tell her I've put a new piece of the puzzle together. To which she always says 'I know...everyone knows...it became obvious 3 weeks ago.' And then I cry and eat more cake and decide that PLL is going to end however I say so.
Even my mum has eaten it, as I slyly put a note on it saying 'Low-Fat'. I may has well written 'contains no food whatsoever', otherwise she just plain wouldn't have eaten it.
I know that no one who isn't directly looking for cake really looks at the recipe part of this, but this one is actually very simple and lovely. I think that you should grow some fucking balls and try to make it. You will feel like you've accomplished something this holiday aside from 'revising'. Or what boys straight up call 'masturbating while playing Xbox'. I'm talking to you Gibber. Jokes probably not.
Recipe:
190g caster sugar
190g butter
10 split and crushed cardamom pods
190g flour
3 eggs <3
1 tsp baking powder
25ml sour cream
splash vanilla extract
(LOOK HOW EASY IT IS, FUCKING DO IT)
1. Preheat oven to 170. Cream butter, sugar and crushed cardamom, mush in your 3 eggs.
2. Add flour and baking powder.
3. Add sour cream and vanilla extract.
4. Put in loaf tin, then oven for 50mins.
Do it bitches. It is so easy. Anyone that actually does this, or bothers to do any other recipe I have ever published please send me a picture: olivia.jane.geisler@gmail.com. I will be disgustingly impressed and put the picture in my next post.
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