A slow week for the HCBer.
Kristina, back from her vacation and baking hiatus, made the Black Chocolate Party Cake as a catch-up. One would hope that back after a hiatus, everything will go all smoothly. Not so. The cake-making process went without hiccup, until Kristina got to the part where she poured the chocolate syrup onto the cake. At this part, she use a plastic wrap to pull any chocolate syrup puddles back onto the cake. Sounds pretty straight forward, except that the syrup melted the plastic wrap. Adding to this calamity is the cake cracking when she tried to move it! Not dismayed by this, Kristina resolved "Oh well, if you take the first slice from the place where it’s cracked, nobody’ll notice." Tasting impressions was good: "It’s a good chocolatey cake, and the walnuts definitely add a little
something. I like that they’re finely ground, so they add flavour, but
no nut texture spoiling the nice soft cake."
Our last cake, the FREE CHOICE Wedding Cake, is slotted for the weekend of Dec 3rd, in 1 1/2 weeks. You can bake anything from the wedding cake section of the book in any format. This means 9 inch, 6 inch, cupcake form, anything. I'm saying this because like me, you might not want to or have a gazillion people to feed.
And finally, Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it. Enjoy the long weekend with your loved ones and please please eat a lot of desserts :).
Congrats to ECL. Her cake really looked like a mirror image of the photo in the book (sans edible gold).
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to making a cake from the Wedding Cake section. Thanks for letting us make it in whatever size we want :o)
Thanks Jenn and Hanaa! I was wondering how I was going to gather 100 people to eat a 3 tier wedding cake but now that I can just bake one of the layers, I might go for it! I do have 3 cakes left, however. I might just keep plugging away at those. So sad we are almost finished :(
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ReplyDeleteYowza! Well done ECL! :)
Congrats, ECL! The currants are like jewels!
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ReplyDeleteJenn, I am constantly impressed to see these baked delights. I am such a novice baker and am in awe of what you do!
ReplyDeleteI hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving!
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Awe!! I wish I could have joined in! I was making pies all this week along with my mother for Thanksgiving. I'll be baking this cake some time this week as I've been in love with it ever since I saw it on the cover. Looks fun.
ReplyDeleteThe wedding cake looks very intimidating but I'll give it a go!
Thhank you for this
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