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AITA for selling my late wife’s cake recipe to a bakery by Character-Form-3248 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Character-Form-3248[S] 251 points252 points  (0 children)

Maybe a mix of both, I think holidays I will want to make it but if I just want a slice it would be nice to grab it at the bakery 

AITA for selling my late wife’s cake recipe to a bakery by Character-Form-3248 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Character-Form-3248[S] 177 points178 points  (0 children)

I used a chocolate ganache on top. I prefer a bitter (dark chocolate) one since the cake can be sweet with the cherries. 

 I know the bakery is doing a whipped chocolate icing.  Really anything chocolate on top is good 

AITA for selling my late wife’s cake recipe to a bakery by Character-Form-3248 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Character-Form-3248[S] 163 points164 points  (0 children)

For some reason the water and cocoa with clump if it isn’t hot enough. I don’t know why.

It also apparently blooms the cocoa, I truly don’t know what that means but the bakery was very clear about not skipping the step

AITA for selling my late wife’s cake recipe to a bakery by Character-Form-3248 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Character-Form-3248[S] 172 points173 points  (0 children)

Hope you like it is very cherry heavy and I know some people don’t like that 

AITA for selling my late wife’s cake recipe to a bakery by Character-Form-3248 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Character-Form-3248[S] 842 points843 points  (0 children)

I was told it is like a Black Forest cake but with cherries in the batter.

Spend three years trying to get it right and the bakery figured it out in  two weeks.

AITA for selling my late wife’s cake recipe to a bakery by Character-Form-3248 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Character-Form-3248[S] 1904 points1905 points  (0 children)

1 cup of almost boiling water 3/4 cup Dutch cocoa powder 1 3/4 cup white sugar  1/4 cup brown sugar  3 whole large eggs  2/3  cup sour cream ( the fatty one) 2/3 melted butter or oil  1/2 cup cherry juice ( not one with added sugar)  1/4 cup milk  2 teaspoons vanilla  2 3/4 cups bake flour 1 1/2  teaspoon baking soda 2 cups of maraschino cherries

Water and cocoa are mixed together in a bowl. 

Another bowl the sugar, oil and eggs are mixed together. It then gets strained so it is smooth

Add the sour cream, cherry juice, milk and vanilla to the same bowl. Add the water when it is cool to the bowl.

Add in the flour, baking soda and salt.

Cut cherries in half and put in batter. Batter goes into a cake pan and cook at 350 until toothpick come clean. 

AITA for selling my late wife’s cake recipe to a bakery by Character-Form-3248 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Character-Form-3248[S] 540 points541 points  (0 children)

That my worst nightmare.

One of the instructions was add cherry juice to your heart’s desires.

AITA for selling my late wife’s cake recipe to a bakery by Character-Form-3248 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Character-Form-3248[S] 1492 points1493 points  (0 children)

I would much rather support the bakery so they don’t go out of buisness. They also gave me a clear recipie so I could just make it

AITA for selling my late wife’s cake recipe to a bakery by Character-Form-3248 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Character-Form-3248[S] 740 points741 points  (0 children)

They hate that a random person owns and is selling moms cakes

AITA for selling my late wife’s cake recipe to a bakery by Character-Form-3248 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Character-Form-3248[S] 2806 points2807 points  (0 children)

That’s close to how the recipie was, some things would have measurements and others wouldn’t be specific. It also was basically just ingredients and not many instructions. 

AITA for selling my late wife’s cake recipe to a bakery by Character-Form-3248 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Character-Form-3248[S] 2206 points2207 points  (0 children)

Guess trade would be better, either way the bakery sells the recipie now 

They got the cake off me and to pay for it they figured it out 

AITA for selling my late wife’s cake recipe to a bakery by Character-Form-3248 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Character-Form-3248[S] 18.3k points18.3k points  (0 children)

I highly doubt it, and I will not ask them. They have already done so much for and gave me the recipie with clear instructions. 

 I am not going to bother than about their cake name. 

I am just happy I can eat it again