Well, I made my own blog...joy! Of course... I am late again.. Sorry I will try harder next month to fit challenge in somewhere in between my 10 hour work days, cooking dinner, and sewing stuff for random people...ha ha... i think.
Anyways so started my cake on the 28th of May.. I was pretty intimidated by this cake as it was.. well 5 pages of directions after its all said and done. I ended up copying and pasting it in to word and re-organizing so I could go through it easier and also made a list of things I would need.. Which actually only ended up being a few things, Blanched amonds and chocolate and food coloring.. which was good as my boyfriend strongly dislikes shopping.. of any kind period! On Wednesday we picked up the few things and I started with the syrup.. it was just like boiling water. excellent. But because we spent alot of time doing this and that I went to bed... The next day I couldn't fit anything in as work exploded... believe it or not I was told I could start doing 8 hour days again.. but then work exploded and I had alot of stuff to go over.. not cool. So Friday I started the rest of the cake. Starting with the Ganache... is that how you spell it? I forget anyways it turned out relatively well as I have never made it before nor did I think I would be able to fold stuff in.. As i am BRAND new to baking well not brand new but all these terms fold in and "until soft peaks form" what the heck is a soft peak anyways... when I worked in the bakery at the local grocery store it was well easier:p I had a professional, well maybe but she knew what she was talkin about. Moving on... It worked out nicely.. I then made the butter cream.. lol when I had the butter all mashed up my boyfriend decided he would come in and see what I doing and saw the butter and said " hey whats that, can I try it?" stuffs his finger in it before I even had a chance to say it was just butter. HA!
It was funny. Oh well... geez I am less than good at writing a blog about a cake.. It was really good I must say. The parts were all very VERY sweet on their own but wow did it ever taste good all together. Everyone loved it.. It was kind of plain and a little bit rushed in the end but it all worked out.
2 comments:
For someone who is new to baking, you have certainly done a marvelous job. Welcome to the DBs!
Great job getting through this challenge... it was definitely a challenge just getting through the recipe.
Nice work!
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