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the main ingredient…

I’ll just say at the onset that I’m not very happy with this letter.   I could see the potential in it…fennel is a little licorice-y…chocolate covered licorice is popular…but it didn’t translate into delicious…

I’ll tell you about it anyway…

I made a fennel cake using the same cake recipe I did for the plum cake for “WUM”, just using pureed fennel instead.  The batter wasn’t heavy on fennel flavor, so I heated a little milk with some fennel seeds, whirred it with the immersion blender, then strained out the solids.  It helped.  The cake is fine on it’s own.

I found a whipped fudge icing that ultimately wasted a lot of ingredients…it turned out extremely sweet but bitter at the same time, if that’s possible.   It’s also very grainy.  I’m not even going to reference it.  Before making this, I tried to find the recipe I used previously for the fudge filling in my Drumstick cupcakes.  It never dawned on me, until I just made that link, that I posted the recipe!

Mr Shuck thinks it overpowers the delicate fennel flavor of the cake.  I agree.

I garnished with some candy coated fennel seeds that I got at the Indian grocery.

Fudge Fennel

On top of all this…I’m not happy with my photos!   What’s wrong with the white balance?  Some days are just like this.  I hope I can get rid of all these cupcakes at work tomorrow…

So far On Beyond Zebra has inspired 4 successes and one fail.  I’m still at a B average.