I know, I know, I'm a day late. But I swear I have a good excuse. Gabby is sick, I'm having some work software issues and last night TJ and I went to this church thing since he makes his communion next year. And when we got home I thought it was Wednesday since Tim was taking out the trash. But I digress.
This week's Tuesdays with Dorie was chosen by Stephanie of Confessions of a City Eater. I was surprised that this hadn't been done yet, since it is the cover cake and I figured everyone has been drooling over it like me. I was excited when it was chosen, and it just so happened to fall on Valentine's Day week, so I made this for us to have Valentine's Day night for dessert, but since I finished it early, we didn't wait! It was so good!
The recipe calls for using 2 8" pans, and I only have 1 so I just used me 2 9" pans. It worked out totally fine. Some people had problems with their cakes rising, but mine were fine. They weren't super tall, but they were fine. I did end up having to make the frosting twice, because the directions were a little vague and after waiting a long time for my syrup t reach 242F, and it not reaching it I just figured it was something I had done wrong, it looked fine, so I added it to the egg whites. It was yummy, but runny. So I started over. And waited. And waited. And waited some more. And then it finally reached the magic number and I made the frosting. And it was SO worth the wait! The final product was fabulous! I preferred the cake out of the fridge with a slight chill. Tim liked his warmed up in the microwave.
Make sure you check out everyone else's fabulous cakes!
2 comments:
Cake looks great. My frosting worked, but my cake didn't rise. Ah, well!! Glad y'all liked it.
Ooh -- warming it up sounds like a good idea. I'll have to try that next time!
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