Bollywood Viking Apocalypse Cake

[sabotabby]

So it was Ragnarok yesterday, coinciding with misslynx's birthday, and as misslynx loves the Bollywood, we had a Bollywood Viking Apocalypse Party. There were Vikings! There was a Bollywood soundtrack. Little A and his Nerf guns brought the apocalypse.

And there was probably the most impressive cake I've ever baked, which I shall dub the Bollywood Viking Apocalypse Cake (the real name for it, granted, is almost as cool). Here's what it looks like:





Not bad for a last-minute improvisation, huh? And it was tasty, too.

Bollywood Viking Apocalypse Cake
(Mjuk Pepparkaka)

Ingredients
o 1/4 lb butter
o 1 cup sugar
o 2 eggs
o 1/2 cup buttermilk
o 1/4 cup cranberry jam (I couldn't find any so I used black current jam)
o 1 1/4 cups flour
o 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
o 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
o 1 teaspoon ground ginger
o 2 teaspoons ground cardamom
o 2 teaspoons baking powder or 1 teaspoon baking soda ( I use baking powder)

Directions
1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
2. Grease and flour a 8x4x3 inch loaf pan or an 8 cup round baking pan.
3. Sieve flour with baking powder, cinnamon, cloves, ginger and cardamom.
4. Set aside.
5. Cream butter and sugar.
6. Add the eggs, one by one, keep whipping.
7. Add buttermilk and jam, mix.
8. Add flour mixture and mix gently.
9. Pour the batter in the prepared pan.
10. Bake on lowest rack in the oven for about 50-60 minutes.
11. Test with a skewer that the cake is done.

(It's Viking because the recipe's Swedish, Bollywood because of the cardamon and ginger, and apocalyptic because I made a Doomsday Clock out of fondant.)

Comments

[apperception.livejournal.com]

Well done. Very clever.

[sabotabby]

I thought so!

[princealberic.livejournal.com]

This is really, really awesome.

[sabotabby]

I was quite pleased with myself.

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

I'm sure everyone was all a' squee! because of that cake. But was there disappointment that a giant wolf didn't eat the sun???

[sabotabby]

The cake made up for a lot including the world's failure to end once again.

And there were kitties. Not the same as a giant wolf, but very cute.

[eyelid.livejournal.com]

It looks cool :) I am down with the minimalism.

[sabotabby]

I may at some point in the future try more elaborate cakes.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

I am now a little bit sad because I can't have any of that awesome cake.

[sabotabby]

Try the recipe! It's completely easy.

[ironed_orchid]

That is the best doomsday cake I have ever seen.

[sabotabby]

Wait, have you seen many doomsday cakes?

[ironed_orchid]

No... but it doesn't make it any less true.

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

Nobody cares about the doomsday clock anymore, but it used to be BIG NEWS when they moved the hands. Oh, the cold war. I miss you

[sabotabby]

It was big news a few years ago when they moved the hand back from four to five.

I'd think it's more relevant now, given how close we are to permanently fuckering the world.

[lienne.livejournal.com]

i l u

[sabotabby]

I can occasionally cake like a pro.

[misslynx.livejournal.com]

That cake was great! And many thanks for hosting the party!

BTW, since a number of people expressed interest in the music mix I made for the party (which for those who were not there or not paying attention, was a mix of roughly half-and-half Bollywood and other Indian or Indian-influenced music, and assorted Northern European metal bands (most of it not precisely Viking metal, since I don't have that much of that, but I figured intense music from Scandinavian and/or Germanic countries was good enough for that side), plus a handful of songs that seemed to reference the apocalypse in some way, and a few other random things that just seemed like they might be fun to add.

I'd be happy to share the mix in some way, if I can figure out the best way to do it (preferably one that isn't going to result in getting me sued by the copyright cops). Someone mentioned MixCloud, but I checked that out and it looks a bit complicated - you have to have all the songs edited together into one big file (which in this case would be about 12 hours long!) and then encode all the artist and track names into it somehow. Although maybe it's not as hard as it looks? Don't know. Open to other suggestions too...

[sabotabby]

I'm listening to the soundtrack now, actually. It's great baking music.

[kryss-labryn.livejournal.com]

--Wait, wait. Ragnarok? I suspect I missed something here...

[sabotabby]

Nah, you didn't. A wolf didn't swallow the sun or anything. There wasn't even a giant snake.

[kryss-labryn.livejournal.com]

I checked into it and it seems to have come down to the Daily Mail (always a reputable news source) interviewing someone working at the Jorvik Viking Centre (which they misspell) upon the occasion of them blowing some Anglo Saxon horn in conjunction with some festival or other they're having.

I really, sincerely hope that she was being tongue-in-cheek, because otherwise her ignorance of the myths is dreadful, considering where she works!

Honestly, saying Ragnarok was nigh because we've invented the Internet and then someone blew that horn is like saying the Apocalypse is night because we've had the Rapture because we've got airplanes. *rolls eyes*

[sabotabby]

The person from the Viking Centre was totally being tongue-in-cheek. I think they were promoting an event or something.

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

Mjuk pepparkaka från Toronto! Jag är djupt imponerad! This means: soft peppercake from Torneå (Tornio in Finnish, Duortnus in Northern Sami Speak)! I´m deeply impressed! The Doomsday Clock is not GMT, I suppose?

[sabotabby]

Wait, is Torneå Toronto? And you speak Northern Sami? Now I'm djupt imponerad.

The Doomsday Clock is in Chicago, so Central Time Zone.

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

When it comes to what I hear about the weather; yes. It may actually be samish but that sounds so amish, somehow. &: No, of course not; basic information on one of Sweden´s native populations was not provided back when I went to school in the ghetto of southern (the poor parts for immigrants like us) Stockholm Suburbia, it might have been more interesting than learning a few runes, though. The Sami were still called "lappar" in the 1960s and 1970s, even at school, which to them sounds like "nigger" does to a black person. Generally, they were treated the traditional way native people are.

I like how the Doomsday Clock looks like a white hat or cap and has orange time zones. Advanced Viking Speak, I guess?