The cake is not a lie

So I won't forget what I did.

2 cups almond meal
3/4 cup ground cocoa or chocolate (or the Ghirardelli ground cocoa&chocolate)
1-1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder

Mix all these things in a largeish bowl.

10 large eggs
water, to be described in a moment
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp almond extract
1 tsp allspice

separate eggs.  Beat whites till stiff.  Add water to yolks to make 2 cups.  Mix water & yolks and flavorings into the dry stuff till smooth.  Fold in whites.

Bake in parchment-lined pans  (in this case, one 9-inch square and one loaf) in 350 degree oven until a knife comes clean.  Half an hour? I wasn't paying close enough attention to be sure.

Notice: it's not quite low-glycemic, but it's lower-glycemic, and lowish in fat.  I just did this, and it's good enough fresh out of the oven -- could be stronger flavored -- but I don't know how it keeps.

 edit: it's moist: it's more flavorful than I thought, though I might increase the allspice and add something like lemon peel: it doesn't taste too sweet, but that one tooth that sometimes objects to sweet things pings on it. I'm definitely doing it this way again, only with maybe a bit less sugar.  It might be good layered with red fruit jam.

edit: the next day it is still pretty good.  It's most reminiscent of the cake-type gingerbread that moms used to make when I was a kid.

and about the passive voice, and "gendered" writing styles

Two of the annoying things that keep popping up about writing are (1) an irrational hatred of the passive vocie coupled with a complete ignorance as to what the passive voice actually is: and (2) blather about gender and writing style.  They've come together in a recent<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/29/AR2010062903997_pf.html"> idiotic essay by Kathleen Parker</a> about President Obama, and you can read the takedown <a href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2427">here</a> at Language Log as usual.

You are all reading Language Log, right?

You better be!