So, since most people who read this are also my Facebook friends, you know that I made the Viking a cake for Valentine’s Day. I was trying to figure out something to buy him but nothing seemed like a good gift (that I could actually afford), and then I remembered Tina telling me people who like to bake and have a talent for it should.
I started out with this recipe, but I couldn’t leave it there. I added some stuff including bacon.
It says “I Love You… Kinda” but my attempts at cake decorating always end up looking like death threats.
The Viking Bacon ManCake
Supplies:
Cake:
1lb maple bacon
1 cup evaporated milk (Annoying side note: they sell 6oz and 12oz cans so you will have some left over.)
4 ounces of white chocolate baker’s squares chopped
1 cup (2 sticks) softened butter
1 2/3 cup sugar
5 eggs
2 3/4 cups all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon plus a little more salt
1 tablespoon-ish vanilla
Icing:
3 oz of chopped baker’s white chocolate
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
2 cups powdered sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
1-2 tablespoons milk
1 crushed frozen strawberry
Cake Procedure:
1 Make you some bacon. I cut mine up into half inch strips with a pair of scissors as I was putting into the pan to cook to make sure it was bite sized. Cook it fairly well done, and set it off to drain. In theory, the entire pound goes in the cake but we all know some will be eaten far before the batter is ready.
2. Melt the chocolate with the evaporated milk in a pan on low heat. Milk gets this hazy foam-film as it heats up before it boils. You want it hot enough to do that but not enough to boil.
3. Beat the softened butter with the sugar. The proper cooking term is “cream” the butter and sugar, but that sounds dirty and slightly misleading. After you get them properly beaten, add an egg and incorporate it. Do this for more times. It’s a pain in the ass, but I’m sure it serves a purpose.
4. Mix the flour, salt, and baking soda together. I still sift my flour. I’m pretty sure I’m nuts for doing that but whatever.
5. This is important: mix stuff together in shifts. Pour some of the butter stuff in and a handful of bacon and beat. Next pour in the chocolate and some bacon and mix. Repeat until everything is added. I got lazy on one attempt and didn’t do this and my cake ended up kinda unmixed and funky.
6. Pour it into a greased bundt or tube pan and cook until the toothpick test. (I’m not going to lie, I had to look up what a tube pan was. It’s an angel food cake pan, just FYI.)
Icing:
1. Take a frozen strawberry, wrap it in a paper towel, and beat the shit out of it until it is shattered.
2. Start melting the butter and white chocolate together on low heat. Add the strawberry bits.
3. After everything is melted, pour in the sugar and the vanilla and mix it. Add as much milk as it takes to get a good consistency for the icing. It should be like a glaze.
4. Spoon over the cake
Now, I don’t mean to brag, but I’m pretty sure because of the bacon cake, the Viking thinks I’m the best girlfriend ever.
It is a cake with BACON
How could it not be awesome?
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