Today we made cinnamon angel food cake and chocolate chiffon cake. Yum. We also finished our tortes from yesterday which involved covering layers of cake in hot caramel and then delicately placing them atop our cake and also involved glazing another cake in chocolate. All in all it was a rather hectic day but a good one, except for the falling. Perhaps that was a sign for me to stop eating cake...?
The angel food and chiffon cakes were made using two different mixing methods: the angel food and the chiffon -- duh. With the angel food, we whipped egg whites and then added a little sugar and then very gently, but quickly, folded in a mixture of flour, cinnamon and some more sugar. Pretty easy, right? Then we made the chiffon cake. For that, we combined some cocoa powder with hot water and mixed it till smooth and then added that to a mixture of egg yolks, oil and vanilla. Then, we added that mixture to some flour, baking powder and salt and mixed till it was just combined. Again, we whipped our egg whites to stiff peaks and folded the cocoa/egg yolk batter into the whites. Also easy.
Cinnamon Angel Food
Chocolate Chiffon Cake...ozzing its glaze
While those baked, we finished our tortes. The Dobas torte, a cake which is made by sandwiching very, very thin layers of cake together with buttercream and icing the whole kit and kaboodle. To finish the cake, we took one of the layers that we did ice, poured hot caramel over it, let it just set and then cut it into eight wedges. Those wedges were then placed onto the cake on a tilt and held up by the rosettes that we had previously piped on the cake. Whew. As you can see, this cake is a real drama queen.
Top of the Dobas Torte
Inside the Dobas torte -- intense, right?
The Klimt torte, named after the artist, Gustav Klimt -- don't ask why because no one knows, was a little easier. We cut this cake into two halves, put raspberry jam in the middle and then glazed it with a chocolate sugar glaze. We were forced to write the name of the artist on top of the cake -- again, don't ask why because no one knows.
Klimt Torte. The picture is of the inside as my partner (love you J) spelled Klimt's name wrong and I didn't want any blog/cake confusion...
Tomorrow we are making genoise cakes. I've often heard of this type of cake but I actually have no idea what it is...I guess I will find out tomorrow afternoon!
OMG,sounds exhausting! Pretty intense. They look beautiful though. I hope you are okay with your back and the slip?
ReplyDeleteoh god those actually are quite slippery steps
ReplyDeleteAll I can say is that it is overwhelming as usual to see and hear what you are doing in that kitchen!
ReplyDeleteWe hope that your back is recovering as well. Those polished stones steps going down into the apartment foyer are treacherous, especially when it was pouring rain which it definitely did that day!