This Week's Parsha:
Eikev
This Dessert:
Moshe’s Temporary Aron
Before Moshe received the second set of Luchos Hashem commanded him to build a wooden Aron to hold the Luchos when they came down.
What You Need:
Ingredients
1 cake, baked in a loaf pan
1 cup frosting of your choice
12 graham crackers
Things
Knife
Offset spatula
How to Make It:
Carefully level off the top of the cake.
Spread a layer of frosting over the entire surface of the cake to cover the cake completely.
With a knife, using a sawing motion, cut pieces of graham cracker to the same height as the cake. Cut enough pieces to surround the cake on all sides.
Stick these pieces onto the side of the cake until it is fully plated in graham crackers.
Cover the entire top of the cake with more graham crackers, cutting them to size when necessary.
Some Cake Recipes:
Vanilla Cake
Ingredients
1 ¾ cups flour
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup non-dairy milk
2 teaspoons vanilla
½ cup canola oil
1 tablespoon vinegar
Directions
Heat the oven to 350℉.
In a medium bowl whisk together dry ingredients.
When combined whisk in wet ingredients.
Grease a 9x13 pan.
Fill with batter.
Bake for about 18 minutes until it passes the toothpick test.
Cool and enjoy.
If baking in a bowl: about 1 hr - 1:15 hr
Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
½ cup cocoa powder
2 teaspoons instant coffee
1 cup hot water
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
12 tablespoons margarine, softened
1 ¼ cups sugar
2 eggs, room temperature
1 ¼ cups flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
Directions
Heat the oven to 350℉.
In a small bowl dissolve cocoa powder and instant coffee in hot water.
When cool mix in the vanilla extract.
Cream the margarine in a large bowl.
Slowly sprinkle in the sugar while beating until the mixture is fluffy.
Add the eggs one at a time, beat for a minute after each egg.
Whisk together the dry ingredients in a separate small bowl.
Add the dry ingredients and cocoa mixture into the margarine mixture alternately in thirds while mixing on medium speed, adding the next set of thirds after the previous set is almost mixed in.
Mix about 15 seconds longer than necessary until satiny.
Split the batter between two well greased 8-inch round pans.
Bake for 20 - 30 minutes.
Let cool in the pans for a few minutes before removing from the pans.
