I am baking the cake for my DD's 3rd bday party this weekend and freezing them until her party in July. I have some recipes for chocolate cake that I know are good and will freeze well, but they have brewed coffee in the batter, say, 1.5 cups. We don't have decaf around because of the way the caffeine is chemically leached from the beans (it freaks me out). Do you think 1.5 cups of coffee in a whole cake will turn my kid and everyone else's kid into nightmare children? TIA!
Um definitely asking for a nightmare. I wouldn't risk it. I'd be really pissed if my 4 year old daughter came to that party, ate the cake, then I found out you added coffee to it.
Um definitely asking for a nightmare. I wouldn't risk it. I'd be really pissed if my 4 year old daughter came to that party, ate the cake, then I found out you added coffee to it.
Also, you can find decaf that is decaffeinated by water process. It's slightly more expensive but it's out there. Not all decaf is done with chemicals.
There are ways to decaffeinate coffee without the chemicals. If you find a shop that is organic certified they probably have decaf coffee that has been decaffeinated this way (you can ask if the swiss water process was used) and you can get a tiny bit that may be enough if you are sold on this cake and don't want to make your kid and everyone else's kids crazy. Good Luck!
There are ways to decaffeinate coffee without the chemicals. If you find a shop that is organic certified they probably have decaf coffee that has been decaffeinated this way (you can ask if the swiss water process was used) and you can get a tiny bit that may be enough if you are sold on this cake and don't want to make your kid and everyone else's kids crazy. Good Luck!
I wouldn't worry too much about it. 1.5 cups in an entire cake is so minimal per serving.
That's my thought, too.
Chocolate in and of itself is caffeinated, particularly dark chocolate, so any mom that's feeding her kid a piece of chocolate cake and is irked that they're bouncing off the walls isn't really thinking through that process much...
I wouldn't worry since a cake that has been in the freezer for 1 to 2 months probably won't be exactly gobbled down.
Nope, it will, which is why I am so attached to this coffee recipe. I've made it and frozen before. This chocolate cake is thebomb.com, seriously. Here is the link-
Why does 1 1/2 cups not seem like a lot? Take out 1 1/2 cups of sugar from the recipe and see how it affects the cake...
That's approximately 150 mg of caffeine, though the amount in a home-brewed cup of coffee can vary widely, between 40 and 170mg.
Divide that 150 among the total number of servings of cake (the cake the OP linked to will serve approximately 24 people), and that's 6.25mg of caffeine per serving. That's about the same as an ounce of milk chocolate.
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Yep. Should be fine.
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There are ways to decaffeinate coffee without the chemicals. If you find a shop that is organic certified they probably have decaf coffee that has been decaffeinated this way (you can ask if the swiss water process was used) and you can get a tiny bit that may be enough if you are sold on this cake and don't want to make your kid and everyone else's kids crazy. Good Luck!
https://www.swisswater.com/consumer/swiss-water-process
Hmm, you've expanded my horizons. I will go on the hunt this weekend. Thanks!
That's my thought, too.
Chocolate in and of itself is caffeinated, particularly dark chocolate, so any mom that's feeding her kid a piece of chocolate cake and is irked that they're bouncing off the walls isn't really thinking through that process much...
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This. There are lots of good recipes. As PP said chocolate already has caffeine in it, why add more?
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Nope, it will, which is why I am so attached to this coffee recipe. I've made it and frozen before. This chocolate cake is thebomb.com, seriously. Here is the link-
https://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2008/07/project-wedding-cake-the-cake-is-baked/
Agree with this. It'd be equal to about a tablespoon of coffee per slice.
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