But instead, I drove this…
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| Yep. My new-to-me wheels after this debacle. |
…so I could bring this…
…to make this!
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| Triple Chocolate Cake*: chocolate genoise soaked in a Frangelico syrup, frosted with chocolate ganache, and decorated with free form chocolate praline sheets that shatter as soon as you cut the cake (or sooner, if you move the cake, even as carefully as you would move plutonium), leaving your creation resembling the Roman Coliseum. |
Also on our community project menu: Midwestern Relish Tray, Dungeness Crab with assorted dipping sauces, Cream of Mushroom Soup, Roast Beast with Potatoes, Spaghetti Squash and Basil Gratin, Freshly Baked Bread, Green Salad with Toasted Hazelnuts and Gorgonzola, and freely flowing champagne.
*From Rose Levy Beranbaum's The Cake Bible. A tricky cake (a few misleading points in the recipe, in my opinion), with tricky decorations (knowing what I know now, I would handle the chocolate praline sheets a little differently), and undoubtedly the most delicious chocolate creation of all time, as far as I can tell. If you get a yen to give it a try, leave a comment, check back, and I'll give you the details. Well worth the indignity of taking the car.
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5 comments:
Totally delicious.! Glad to read that you could bring although ingredients together for bake this recipe as well. It looks you had enjoyed delicious cake after great trip.
Next time you come here you must make one of those cakes.
Dad
Oh man...one of the few cookbooks I don't own. Off to my amazon wish list, I go. Looks fabulous.
Thank you! We did!
Shame on you for not owning this book! ;-)
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