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Aug 28

Starting Your Very Own Herman Cake from Scratch

Since my last post about Ethan receiving his friendly Herman Cake from Nursery, I have got a few requests on how to start your own friendly Herman Cake. If you can’t wait to be given Herman, you can start Herman yourself. Here is how.

Ingredients
140 g shifted flour
200 g caster sugar
7 g yeast
280 mL warm milk
60 mL warm water

Method
Wake your yeast up by sprinkling the yeast into warm water. Leave to stand for about 10 minutes and stir.
Add sugar, stir and add flour and stir again.
Add milk slowly mixing thoroughly.
Cover Herman with a clean cloth and let him rest for 24 hours at room temperature.
Herman is ready for his 10 days cycle after the 24 hour rest

 Refer to my previous post for instructions on how to take care of Herman.

Have fun with Herman! Now you can share Herman with your friends 🙂  Will it spread like an epidemic (a good one of course, don’t want to offend Herman)? Tell me about it!

 

Aug 26

Making Friendly Herman Cake

10 days ago Ethan brought home Herman from nursery with some instructions on how to ‘take care’ of ‘him’. After taking care of Herman which includes daily conversation and a feeding session, today is the D-day to split Herman so Ethan can share Herman with his friends…It is also time to cook Herman…what excitement!

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Say Hello to Ethan’s oozing Herman! We split him last night and this morning found Herman trying to escape 🙂

We turned the bubbling goo into yummy Herman cake.

 

 Ethan’s Herman is made of Herman himself, 100 g almond flakes, a handfull of cranberries, 1 chopped apple, 2 tbsp cinnamon powder, 3 eggs, 150 g caster sugar, 150 g sifted flour and 100 mL sunflower oil. We split Herman into 2 baking tins and baked Herman at 180 degrees C (fan oven) for about 33 minutes.

 

 Here are the original instructions that came with Herman!…Lazy to type it out. If you can’t read it drop me a quick line and I will type it out 🙂 

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 Here is Ethan chopping the apples and stirring Herman whilst talking and singing to him.20120826-090626 PM.jpg Yes, Ethan sang to Herman daily and I find it hillarous that Ethan choose to talk about the weather and asked Herman how was his day! 

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Between you and me, Herman smelt of sweet alcohol probably from the fermentation process. Herman cake tasted like fruit cake (reminds me of Christmas brandy fruit cakes). Oh well, at least Ethan and Herman were happy. Bless Herman, he is such a friendly cake.

We had such fun, we kept another Herman so that we can grow more to share with more of Ethan’s friends.

If you recently received Herman, do drop me a line to tell me how you are getting on with your Herman will ya! Enjoy.  

Oh, if you can’t wait for someone to give your Herman, you can start your own Herman. Refer to my post on how to start your own Herman.