But I worried that simply leaving out the sherry would spoil the dessert's balance and character, and that the cake might be too spongy without the added booze.
The cake might be based on a thin cookielike crust or one formed of crushed graham crackers.
"The average wedding cake might be $1,200 to $1,500, but it really depends on what a person wants," she said.
If getting down and dirty with a crab isn't your thing, then a crab cake might be more your speed.
If your oven runs a little hot, the sides of your cake might be quite dry and browned – if so, just trim these edges off before you crumb the cake.
Blood orange sorbet was extremely astringent; and dry bittersweet chocolate cake might be missed, as might overdone cappuccino soufflé, which appeared to be a vanilla soufflé with coffee sauce supplying the flavor.
Even on Brass Eye, when he was hoaxed into warning the young about the dangers of a pretend narcotic, he conducted himself with a cultured professionalism, amending a script he then delivered so naturally that viewers may have ended up wondering whether the "made-up drug" Cake might be real after all and the joke might actually be on Chris Morris.
Even devotees of molten chocolate cake might be surprised to see the source of their pleasure: a wrinkly pod the size of a football that contains sweet pulp and about 40 bitter beans the size of almonds, enough to make 10 milk chocolate bars.
Cakes might be eaten with the draft, but dinner was the day's main meal, then taken at noon, and, at least on some occasions, this was washed down with wine — possibly watered, given the volumes that Pepys records knocking back.
There was no order to cookbooks: a cake recipe might be followed by a mutton one.
