Cooking
My father-in-law recently celebrated two events: his sixty-ninth birthday, and his retirement from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
My mother-in-law wondered if I would make a cake...? Of course I would
Another recipe from Perfect Cakes, I made Shoggitorte.
A chocolate genoise, sliced into two layers, and filled and topped with a dark chocolate mousse (I used powdered agar instead of gelatin). The cake is finished off with milk chocolate shavings.
Just five of us, so obviously the cake went over well!
- Under "likes": Chocolate
She said she liked chocolate. So I gave her chocolate. A double-dark chocolate cake, topped with a thick & shiny ganache and Jackson Pollocked-white chocolate. 'Paisley' shaped cake....
- Daring Bakers: Has The Fat Lady Sung Yet?
I'm rather pleased with myself. I saw this month's challenge, and decided I was going to turn it into a mother's day cake for Matt's Mom. Which means...I completed the challenge weeks early! Usually, I'm scrambling the night before,...
- Apples? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Apples!
Forget the shiny red apple as a teacher gift. For Alex's preschool teacher's birthday, we gave cake. I call it 'The Turtle Cake', for what I hope are obvious reasons. Two (square) layers of a seriously dense chocohlate cake, smothered...
- Trial And Error
Or, When a recipe goes wrong. Last week, I made a White Chocolate Pound Cake. I just felt like baking one. I carefully followed the directions, as I (almost) always do. Melted chocolate in the cake, as well as white chocolate layered with the batter:...
- I'll Never Be A Pastry Chef
Today was my in-law's 42nd wedding anniversary. To celebrate, I decided to make them something spectacular (as Matt said when arrived at their house "if you didn't know I was bringing something like this, you haven't been paying attention"). ...
Cooking
Salutations and Congratulations
My father-in-law recently celebrated two events: his sixty-ninth birthday, and his retirement from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
My mother-in-law wondered if I would make a cake...? Of course I would
Another recipe from Perfect Cakes, I made Shoggitorte.
A chocolate genoise, sliced into two layers, and filled and topped with a dark chocolate mousse (I used powdered agar instead of gelatin). The cake is finished off with milk chocolate shavings.
Just five of us, so obviously the cake went over well!
- Under "likes": Chocolate
She said she liked chocolate. So I gave her chocolate. A double-dark chocolate cake, topped with a thick & shiny ganache and Jackson Pollocked-white chocolate. 'Paisley' shaped cake....
- Daring Bakers: Has The Fat Lady Sung Yet?
I'm rather pleased with myself. I saw this month's challenge, and decided I was going to turn it into a mother's day cake for Matt's Mom. Which means...I completed the challenge weeks early! Usually, I'm scrambling the night before,...
- Apples? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Apples!
Forget the shiny red apple as a teacher gift. For Alex's preschool teacher's birthday, we gave cake. I call it 'The Turtle Cake', for what I hope are obvious reasons. Two (square) layers of a seriously dense chocohlate cake, smothered...
- Trial And Error
Or, When a recipe goes wrong. Last week, I made a White Chocolate Pound Cake. I just felt like baking one. I carefully followed the directions, as I (almost) always do. Melted chocolate in the cake, as well as white chocolate layered with the batter:...
- I'll Never Be A Pastry Chef
Today was my in-law's 42nd wedding anniversary. To celebrate, I decided to make them something spectacular (as Matt said when arrived at their house "if you didn't know I was bringing something like this, you haven't been paying attention"). ...