My first two-layered cake! I got the recipe for a simple chocolate buttercake from The Cake Bible. I also tried a simple chocolate "neoclassic" buttercream frosting from the same book. Well, I thought the cake turned out really well! It was kind of crumbly, but very chocolatey and rich, and not TOO sweet. The icing was different than what I expected though. I thought it would whip up and be very light and fluffy. That's buttercream, right? But instead it was very thin. It TASTED great--again, really rich and chocolatey, but not too sweet--but it looked like a thin, shiny ganache. So I'm not sure what happened there! It tasted very nice with strawberries. It was quite a production to make this thing, though! Definitely for special occasions only.Well, it's definitely a start. My big goal is to be able to make a stunning cake by Elliot's birthday. I wouldn't be ashamed to serve this! But I think I can do even better. This seemed more like a grown-up cake.
I don't think this picture does it justice. I am putting it up anyway, because a bare blog is boring. I need to learn how to take better pictures!
-Kristin
4 comments:
You need a cake stand with cover, so you can take great photos of the cake sitting up on it!
I sure do! I also need a bigger kitchen to keep all this baking stuff in. How do people do it?!
MMMMM chocolate.....
I had a Coca Cola Chocolate cake at Cracker Barrel today - that should be the benchmark for your future efforts. Also note that Chocolate should be capitalized.
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