{"id":1087,"date":"2009-01-11T15:12:27","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T20:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2009-01-11T15:12:27","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T20:12:27","slug":"how-about-some-microwave-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1087","title":{"rendered":"How about some microwave cake?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/s-microwave-cake-1.JPG' title='s-microwave-cake-1.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/s-microwave-cake-1.JPG' alt='s-microwave-cake-1.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A week or so ago, a friend forwarded me one of those Internet emails that everyone forwards all over the place. It was a recipe for a chocolate microwave cake, with very appealing photographs. I couldn&#8217;t get it out of my mind. I had never heard of making cake in a microwave, but the recipe seemed highly reasonable. I improvised my own version. This is a chocolate cranberry cake.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite cake is a chocolate applesauce cake in which applesauce is the only liquid ingredient. It&#8217;s a moist, substantial cake, the kind of cake I like, not an airy cake. I just happened to have some fresh cranberries in the fridge, so I thought, why not. As a confident cook, and because improvising is half the fun, I almost never use recipes. I brought the cranberries to a boil in a tiny amount of water, and stirred in some coconut oil, sugar, and cocoa. I tasted the batter at this point to adjust the sugar. I added a beaten egg, then whole wheat flour sifted with a bit of baking powder. I baked it in the microwave in a mixing bowl. The cake rose nicely and didn&#8217;t fall. It came out of the bowl clean. It tasted just as I hoped it would taste &#8212; tart, moist, and chocolatey. This is probably about as healthy as a cake can get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week or so ago, a friend forwarded me one of those Internet emails that everyone forwards all over the place. It was a recipe for a chocolate microwave cake, with very appealing photographs. I couldn&#8217;t get it out of my mind. I had never heard of making cake in a microwave, but the recipe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1087\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How about some microwave cake?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}