Sunday, October 31, 2010

Heavenly Cake - The Bostini

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Oh my, these are seriously sinful. Shamefully, I never heard of a boston cream pie before so I did not realize at first what we were deconstructing.


Mis en place:



Add orange and eggs to dry ingredients. This is before adding the meringue.

After the meringue.

Pop em' in the toaster.


Mis en place 2: the pastry cream.

The egg mixture.

Sugar, spice... everything nice.


Just about ready to pour into the eggs.


Pastry cream. Magnifique!

Prepare the cups. It only filled six of my cups. I would have had to make a double recipe of pastry cream. That's O.K. we ate about six of those addictive little orange sponges anyway.


I used the scale for nearly everything in this recipe. It is just easier.


Prepare the cups.

Don't use too many fingers to lick the chocolate...


To your health! קע''ה 

My conclusions: The orange chiffon cakes are absolutely wonderful all by themselves and the pastry cream is truly delicious. The chocolate coating, on the other hand, was a bit too rich for my tastes (all that butter.) I think a regular ganache or the chocolate coating from the ice cream cake recipe would have suited me just fine. All together these make an absolutely magnificent dessert that really lend an air of festivity to whenever it is served. 


I felt like Napoleon did...


9 comments:

  1. Mendy.. they were a hit at my house too.. I served them as the dessert at the end of a meal and I could not keep everyone's spoon out of the glass...

    Unlike you I love the chocolate, but then I'm a dark chocolate fan. And you are right the chiffon cake were good all by themselves too - I omitted the orange juice and zest.. and I soaked them in a rum/sugar glaze.. which keep them even more moist.

    They were worth the wait.

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  2. haha! i loved that movie when it came out. your first photo of the bostini in the fancy glass is perfect!

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  3. I love it too! That first picture of that chocolate flowing out..is awesome!

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  4. WOW -GORGEOUS. I WAS LAUGHING WHEN I FIRST SAW ALL THAT GANACHE SPILLING DOWN AS I VISUALIZED THOSE LITTLE HANDS DRENCHED WITH CHOCOLATE - LOL, WHO NEEDS/WANTS SPOONS?!

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  5. Great post, Mendy! Love those helpful fingers.
    I have to tell you about an ice cream parlor called http://farrellsusa.com/ Farrels. It makes the one in the clip look tame.

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  6. Sinful indeed! Love all the ganache spilling over on your end :).

    I love the chocolate glaze, though I could use a bit less pastry cream.

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  7. Now how did I not catch on that you were in Brooklyn...are you near/in Crown Heights? We're probably neighbors. I'm taking you up on that Shabbat meal sometime, as I'd like to meet the Greensteins.

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  8. ב''ה

    Katya: Yes! We are in Crown Heights. :)

    We would love to have you over sometime.

    PM me:

    mendy.greenstein at gmail.com

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  9. A really fun post. I loved your little tasters.

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