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    Monday
    Jun222015

    Double Damage Oblivion chocolate cake Rose's Alpha Bakers

                Double Damage Oblivion chocolate cake 'The Baking Bible'

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    Renowned chocolate cake lovers, the single dad with his eight year old autistic son picked up the Double Damage Oblivion cake that I baked from Rose Levy Beranbaum's 'The Baking Bible' today ... I just got the review back "You've got a good cake here".

    The guys review contradicts my opinion of the cake and once again illustrates different people have different likes and dislikes and it all comes down to personal preference and knowing your audience. 

    Today's bake calls for baking two different cakes, starting with the Chocolate Oblivion by first melting chocolate and butter together over a pot of hot water.

    Then with a long handled whisk, eggs were beaten over a pan of simmering until warm, before being beaten in a mixer until light and billowy. 

    The whipped eggs are folded into the chocolate mixture. 

    The tin was a springform, greased a third of the way up and base lined with baking paper. 

    The sides and base of tin were double wrapped in aluminum foil and the cake baked in a water bath until set but still wobbly in the centre. Then the cake was covered and popped in the refrigerator overnight.

    Cake two is the Deep Chocolate Passion. You can tell we are up to the second part of a recipe because I forgot to take photos :P

    A cake tin with greased bottom only, is then lined with baking paper. Cocoa and boiling water is beaten until smooth the cooled. Oil and eggs are added to the cooled mixture and beaten until smooth and shiny. Flour is added an resulting batter spread evenly into the tin and baked.

    Oh my... this next part made me nervous, after running a flat knife around the edge of the hot baked cake you have to turn out the hot cake!! Yep, nervous for no reason the cake came out easily and it was time to peel the away the baking paper and reverse cake so the top is ummm, on the "top".  

    Dang, don't take photos of the paper liner when your hot cake is the wrong way around on the rack... you will get this effect "a cross hatch cake".

    There is ganache; yes you make ganache and spread it on your chocolate oblivion, which is topped with the bottom layer of deep chocolate passion cake... then reversed... more ganache on the now top of oblivion and then the final layer of cake is laid on top.  

    Now you will see your chocolate oblivion layer needs trimming to be the same size as your cake... once you have trimmed, a hot knife is run around cake until you have a smooth and shiny finish. 

    Sprinkle sifted cocoa powder and eat!

    Here is the inside texture of cake, all the layers look super moist but what I found was it ate "dry", after a mouthful you felt like you needed a drink, second mouthful more drink, third mouthful maybe I'll just drink my coffee. The chocolate oblivion layer tasted like a ganache truffle but doesn't have the melt in mouth truffle feel.  

    Would I bake again? Not sure, there is other Rose's chocolate cakes I like more. 

    Would I change anything?  There was an option to use jam rather than ganache to join the layers but either way if I baked again I would have preferred the cake to be syruped. A coffee liqueur syrup, or orange or perhaps chambord would have been nice. A thin water gel or berry gel layer would be good too. 

    How it works... now I've joined the fabulous existing alpha bakers, once a week I will post about what I have baked from Rose Levy Beranbaum's 'The Baking Bible'. This won't include the recipe due to copyright and publisher restrictions however, I will be posting how it went and photos of making/baking the gorgeous baked goods.

    Happy Baking :) 

     

    Award winning author Rose Levy Beranbaum's The Baking Bible is available from Amazon and other good book stores worldwide.  

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    Monday
    Nov022009

    Martha Stewart's Cupcakes 

    Off the shelf  
    baking book reviews


    This weeks off the shelf is 'Martha Stewart's Cupcakes'  175 Inspired Ideas for Everyone's Favorite Treat (Paperback)

    Okay, I admit it, I am a Martha fan. I do get a bit "Martha, Martha, Martha" and that can drive the male members of the household a little crazy. This of course does not stop them eating and asking for more whenever I have a day of "Martha baking". 

    I've baked many of the recipes in 'Martha Stewart's Cupcakes' a 352 page beautifully formatted book full of cupcake recipes, frostings, fillings, plus ways to decorate and package your cupcakes. All done with Martha's impeccable style.

    I made the mocha cupcake (pictured top)... flavourful, choc/coffee experience, everyone loved them. Though watch out for those chocolate coated coffee beans, I ate too many of them when setting up the photo and ended up with lots of shaky shots!

    The book contains two of my all time favourite cupcake recipes, a one-bowl chocolate cupcake page 152 and 'Yellow Buttermilk Cupcakes' page 26, in my opinion the "perfect yellow cake". From basic vanilla, a range of chocolates, to Amaretto and Pineapple cupcakes, Roasted Banana cupcakes, Lemon Meringue and a host of other flavours.

    Filled with cupcake recipes, to die for frostings, gorgeous photos & inspirational tips you will find yourself turning to 'Martha Stewarts Cupcakes' over and over again.