This week's
Tuesdays with Dorie recipe was selected by Stephanie of
Confessions of a City Eater. This is the cover recipe for the book we've been baking from, so my expectations were pretty high, and I wasn't let down. A devil's food cake is sliced into four layers (if you can get it to rise, a common problem amongst the bakers) and is layered with marshmallow-like white frosting. Dorie leaves the option to frost all four layers like a normal cake, but I took her lead and copied her in chopping up one of the layers and using it as decoration.
If (when?) I make this cake again, I'm going to use some smaller cake pans so I can get thicker layers of cake. Because the texture was perfectly fine, I'm assuming that this cake just isn't meant to rise as much as I had expected, but I was a little bummed out by how much smaller it was than I had anticipated. Still, the mix of dark chocolate cake with light vanilla marshmallowy cream makes this cake a definite favorite.
Recipe:
Baking: From My Home to Yours, by Dorie Greenspan, pp. 247 - 249
If (when?) I make this cake again, I'm going to use some smaller cake pans so I can get thicker layers of cake. Because the texture was perfectly fine, I'm assuming that this cake just isn't meant to rise as much as I had expected, but I was a little bummed out by how much smaller it was than I had anticipated. Still, the mix of dark chocolate cake with light vanilla marshmallowy cream makes this cake a definite favorite.
Recipe: Baking: From My Home to Yours, by Dorie Greenspan, pp. 247 - 249
12 comments:
Your cake looks just right -- hope, as you hinted, that you'll make it again.
I thought it was wonderful too!
Well done, it looks great :)
You got a Dorie comment! How exciting. Your cake looks great!
Your cake looks great!! And Dorie loved it, too!? Nice work!
This cake was delicious, wasn't it? Great job.
Nice job! Yes, it was wonderfully good!!!
Your cake looks delicious. I'm glad you liked it.
CAke looks just great. It was pretty good.
Heaven on earth?
It looks great -- pillowy and lovely!
Love your perfect, fluffy white frosting! You've made it a really fun-looking cake - and delicious too!
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