Personally I felt awkward making a cake for myself. But it's because my kids at nowadays sympathize that birthdays are something exceptional for a person, hence I tin convey my ain cake and blow it too. I can't hold off for the twenty-four threescore minutes menstruum when my kids volition bake me my cake because no 1 volition purchase me 1 ... larn it? LOL.
Remember I said my hubby in 1 lawsuit helped me buy 1 punnet of raspberries, in addition to this is the cake that used upwards that punnet. It was non that fresh anymore when I made this, hence I was left alongside some piteous ones. Trying rattling difficult to take the bad parts in addition to larn at to the lowest degree 8 whole rasps for deco. Talk most him buying in addition to leaving it at abode for a few hours unreferigerated (but alongside air cond running) in Subang before driving dorsum to KK. That menstruum of time, at that spot was none inwards Ipoh, of a abrupt no stock anywhere. So, I asked him to larn for me when he went to KL for a describe of piece of job concern trip.
I gave myself a huge pat on the dorsum when it was finally fully covered. Phew!
Chocolate Raspberry Cake
Idea derived from The Baker's Dozen Cookbook
pg 94, alongside personal adaptations
9-inch Soft chocolate genoise
Light Ganache
1 punnet raspberries
Lacquer Glaze (26C, freshly made. 29C if made ahead in addition to reheated)
1. Slice genoise into ii layers. Place 1 slice onto a cake board that is of equal size alongside the cake.
2. Spread 1/3 of the calorie-free ganache onto the cake. Break some raspberries in addition to adjust them onto the cake.
3. Spread 1/3 of the calorie-free ganache onto the 2d slice of cake, in addition to lay the frosted side downwards onto the kickoff layer.
4. Spread repose of calorie-free ganache all over cake, making certain everything is fifty-fifty in addition to smooth. Freeze the cake for fifteen minutes. (best volition live to chill the cake for ii hours)
5. Prepare a wire rack. Place a catchment tray underneath the rack, slightly bigger than the cake volition do. Turn on the aircond, a warm room volition non live suitable.
6. Remove cake from freezer in addition to house it on the rack alongside tray underneath.
7. Gently pour room temperature lacquer glaze over cake starting from the oculus in addition to hence on the rim, making certain every flake of cake is covered. Let the glaze drip. Repeat if needed.
8. Transfer cake to a bigger cake board or serving platter. Top alongside whole raspberries.Chill cake for some other 3-5 hours before serving.
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Soft Chocolate Genoise
Recipe source: The Baker's Dozen Cookbook
page 63
60gm clarified butter (Homemade version refer here. 90gm butter volition yield about 60gm clarified)
60gm patently flour
38gm cocoa powder
v Grade Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 eggs (65gm alongside shells each, if using storey C, purpose vi eggs)
200gm saccharide (you volition demand this amount to offset the bitterness of the cocoa)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1. Preheat the oven at 160(fan)/180C (My oven preheats inwards vi minutes, hence I create this entirely when it’s fourth dimension to vanquish the eggs, hence when to preheat, it’s upwards to u).
2. Prepare a nine inch circular pan in addition to describe the base.
3. Sift cocoa pulverization in addition to flour together twice. Set aside.
4. Heat a pan of water. Break eggs into your mixer bowl in addition to pose inwards sugar. Turn the rut off in addition to pose the mixer bowl into the pan of hot water. Stirring it all the fourth dimension hence that it warms upwards without cooking. Remove bowl from pot when it’s warm. Beat eggs on high speed until ribbon phase (5 mins speed 8 on KA, 10mins alongside manus mixer)
5. Meanwhile, Turn upwards the rut again(just to reboil the water, hence plough to the lowest heat) in addition to house the clarified butter inwards the pan to maintain hot (not warm). Put vanilla extract into the butter.
6. When eggs are done beating, pour one-half the sifted flour into the eggs in addition to fold. Pour the repose of flour in addition to bend in 1 lawsuit again (as long every bit all the flour is folded, but streaks of egg tin even hence live seen, it’s ok)
7. Drop to a greater extent than or less 1 loving cup of the batter into the butter in addition to stir (not fold) until rattling good incorporated. Pour this into the batter.
8. Fold batter until incorporated in addition to pour into prepared pan.
9. Bake for xxx minutes or until done. (Cake volition rising 30-40% piece baking in addition to deflate later)
10. Remove from oven, allow cake cool for 1 infinitesimal on wire rack. Loosen the crust from the pan, to preclude the cake from cracking. Loosen the sides after 3 minutes for fifty-fifty shrinkage in addition to allow cake cool off completely before removing from pan.
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Light Ganache
Source: The Baker's Dozen Cookbook
pg 331
250ml whipping cream
184gm nighttime chocolate
*Prepare this vi hours beforehand.(or upwards to 4 days earlier)
1. Break chocolate into smaller pieces in addition to pose into a bowl.
2. Heat cream untill the periphery begins to bubble. Turn off the heat.
3. Pour the hot cream over the chocolate. Let it represent most v minutes. With a spatula, gently stir the chocolate to brand sure it is completely melted.
4. Cover alongside plastic twine in addition to chill for vi hours until thick in addition to cold.
5. Whip the mutual depression temperature ganache until it turns to the color Milo, don't overwhip.Use straight off ************************************************
Lacquer Glaze
Source: Rose's Heavenly Cakes
39gm mutual depression temperature water
1-1/8 tsp gelatin
100gm sugar
59gm water
21gm corn syrup (I used golden syrup)
50gm alkalized cocoa powder
58gm heavy cream
1. Place 39gm H2O inwards a bowl in addition to sprinkle the gelatin over. Let it sit down for minimum 5 minutes.
2. In a saucepan, rut 59gm H2O alongside saccharide until it melts in addition to H2O is hot. Turn off the rut in addition to stir inwards the corn syrup. Then stir inwards the cocoa pulverization until smooth. Stir inwards the cream.
3. Return the saucepan to medium heat, stirring constantly in addition to allow it rut until you lot tin run into bubble on the periphery. Remove from rut in addition to strain. Stir inwards the softened gelatin (from pace 1) until everything is dissolved in addition to smooth. Strain everything in 1 lawsuit again into a drinking glass mensuration loving cup (metal volition give the lacquer a funny gustation later)
4. Allow the lacquer to cool downwards for a few minutes, stirring gently hence that you lot create non contain air into it. Glaze coats best fresh at 26C, but tin live made days ahead in addition to reheated to 29C for best performance.
The genoise was rattling soft in addition to delicious. Seems similar a lot of sugar, but because the cocoa pulverization gustation was also strong, the sweetness was simply right. It also felt moist due to the high ratio of eggs to flour. It might seem dense visually, but it's definitely non so... it's soft in addition to moist, almost souffle like.
And when your daughter gives you lot this expression.... it's priceless
chocolate in addition to berries, her favourite.
Added seven Apr 2012
If you lot desire to run into how Rose glazes her cake alongside her Lacquer Glaze, run into this video
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