Heavenly Cake - Deep Chocolate Rosebuds

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I am deeply passionate about these 'rose buds.' Maybe it was because I was out of baking for so long, maybe it was because I had not had a really good chocolate cake in a while, maybe it was Paris... Whatever the reason, these cupcakes were absolutely moist, delicious and gooey.

Ganache.

The batter had a marvelously delicate color and wonderful texture.

Ready to toast.

Toast em' up!

Lovely quasi-volcano cakes. Every one loved them!

Someone is holding me back from baking...

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and her name is Naomi Qamar:

You can read my chiffonlet post here.

Heavenly Cake - No Bake Cheesecake as well as the 'retardation' of retardation.'

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This fabulous cheesecake really is light as feather. Well done Rose, you really captured something nice here. This recipe seems rather unique what with the custard, italian merringue and whipped cream cheese. I did end up making some modifications because of our pantries limitations. First I used regular cream cheese instead of cream fraiche. Then, I only used 1/3 the amount of whipped cream cheese. At the end I decided to add an extra egg white to the merringue. I learned my lesson before when Rose includes random lemon juice ingredients. Unless you are expecting the dessert to have a lemon flavor, leave it out! There are already two other lemon cheesecakes in Rose's heavenly cakes and another was not what we were looking for.

I wondered if the butter really got incorperated nicely since it still seemed very crumbly but the crust turned out great! This, even though I mixed in the melted butter by hand to the already processed graham crackers.

Custard.

Old enough to actualy be of real help! :)

Merringue.

This time we had real Kolatin and the cakes set nicely.

And now for another little rant. Namely, with all the fancy baking books preaching on how much better bread tastes if you retard your dough what they fail to mention is that if you don't your bread (in this case pizza) will still be better than any thing you can get in a store. What is more, even if you don't let your dough rise, your homemade pizza dough can still taste better than store bought. I found this out the other night when my wife was out and, pressed for time, I made what we now call 'Silly Pizza' for dinner. I used 1 part corn meal to 3 parts AP flour a dash of salt and a dash of yeast. However, I was pressed for time and did not really let the yeast rise before throwing it in the oven. It was fabulous! Delicious! Better than anything you can by in the store.

Just a little something I made to break our fast on today.

Heavenly Cake - Zach's La Bomba

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Link to my mystery cake post

This was a fantastic, unique dessert that is really above average pallet. I do have a bone to pick however. It was too damn small!! For all that work it really should have been at least twice as large.

Tea for the Sabayon. Perhaps, best served in such a tea pot.

Sabayon. I am not sure I got the full height as I also used the mixer for the chocolate.

Straining the preserves.

My "double boiler."

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Test. With a smile. :)

Glossy? Yesh.

The kosher gelatin I found was actually non-flavored jello. I am still not sure if it worked properly, however, carageenan was amongst the ingredients.

After the freezer. The cake got slightly burnt in the toaster but it was a real star. What a fantastic chocolate cake all on its own!

I did not have time to wait 8 hours, as it was already 11pm. My wife has placed penne ala' vodka on the menu regularly now since we have been buying so much heavy cream for Rose's cakes.

I am not sure if this worked properly as this mouse was polished off within an hour.

Not very pretty, but it was fantastic! The flavors were sophisticated and delicious.

Now that we have been away from Brooklyn for a while I can start to reminisce about we miss, er no, not exactly, um find interesting? Um, no. How about a couple things that were... unique...

Only in Brooklyn.

and... only in Brooklyn...

I figured I would also take this opportunity to blog about the Jansci Torta I made on Passover, since I finally have proof that I whipped the egg whites by hand.

I can not remember exactly when I started. Say about 1pm.

 Pretty stiff!! :)

Fold it in.

One of the ubiquitous taste tester.

 The chocolate coating did suffer since I did not have any cream or such for the ganache. It still came out pretty good.

Heavenly cake - She Loves Me Daisy Cake

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This was a fabulous cake! The kind of cake that must have made Rose famous. Very classic.

lobotomize.

Yummy Lemon Curd. Mmm. I should make lemon curd more often. It is so good!

The blueberries went along really well.