Heavenly Cake - Golden (Mango) Genoise a mistake I found and a $135 sponge cake :)

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This was a fabulous cake that took a bit of work. I had to work myself up to make this. I had bakers block, if there is such a thing. Look down to the buttercream pic to find out the mistake I found. I could not find passion fruit and don't have to much time anymore to go looking for it. I would have definitely enjoyed this with passion fruit. When I find some I think I'll make this cake again (or at least just the curd!)  I love passionfruit! :)

Mis en place:

'Omi Girl' was with me for moral support. 

I already have numerous genoise posts already on this site so I only took a picture of the batter.

Requisite toaster pic. I baked two genoise cakes so the cake would be nice and high and use up all of the buttercream. Rose's buttercream recipes in this book are always enough for two layers.

Mango Puree. I put dole frozen mango chunks in the blender after it defrosted a bit.

The mango curd (pretty fab!)

The white chocolate custard. I guess the white chocolate I had was not the highest quality. It seemed to curdle and would not mix well with the melted butter. I did finally melt in to the egg though...

The buttercream. O.K. Here is the mistake I found. The recipe calls for 6 oz of cream cheese which should be 170g. However, 6 ounces was only 123g and the 170g was for the full 8oz package! I know it is not a big mistake but I feel pretty good for having spotted it! :) I get the feeling though that Rose has not been following our posts and will probably miss this. Oh well.

Components. 

Composing.

Ready for the swirl!

I enlisted my wife's help to do the final swirl as my attempts were not very good...

Ta da! Or as my little girl says, "da la!"

I have been making Bert Green's Special Sponge cake from the Cake Bible every Friday recently for the holy sabbath. After the Sukot Holiday I had my Etrog (citron) left over. This year I payed $125 for it. It is used in the holiday prayer service. Everyone wants a nice one without booboos so the prices are quite high. Mine was from Calabria Italy.

This is what it looks like on the inside: As you can see it ain't no lemon! At any rate I used the juice (it only gives very little and zest for the sponge cake.

We love Burt Green's sponge cake! :)

Here are some challahs I made.

Cake Bible - Chocolate Lover's Angel Food Cake

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My Pineapple Cakes can be found here.

My wife requested a sponge cake from the cake bible, so I took a break from Heavenly Cakes for a week to make something for her. I had 14 egg whites in the freezer. Now, according to Jewish custom, you can not store eggs (or onions) that are already open without putting a little bit of oil on them. I was worried that this would stop the egg whites from whipping properly. However, the amount that I used was only a little, which is all you need to fulfill this, and they still whipped up nicely. I will say however, that the 40 minutes given in the recipe for the cake was not quite enough to bake the cake completely and it would have benefited from another few minutes baking.

Folding...

Not the toaster...

Since the Jewish New Year is coming up this Wednesday night (Thursday and Friday) and the custom is to bake round challas I though I would post another videoI found on braiding them. This time with three variations 6, 4 and ball-type.

May it be a good and sweet new beginning. 

Cake Bible (based) - Cointreau Cake

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I am skipping the chestnut sand cake as I have not been able to locate the flour. :(

Grand Marnier is not Kosher so I substituted Cointreau. Especially with the orange blossom water, this cake had a very intense flavor!

Cake Bible - Buttermilk Country Cake

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I used frozen buttermilk. It was a little grainy but the cake came out OK (but a little sunk...)

Rose's Golden Almond Cake

Rose's Burt Green Sponge Cake

My Genoise Chocolate attempt (Rose's.) We dubbed this "le pancake!" (I think I let the eggs get to hot and then beat them with the paddle attachment instead of the beater...)

Alfred E. Neuman for President...

(Actually it is a smily face for my Hebrew Birthday cake I made. Rose's Golden Yellow Butter cake with Chocolate Glaze...)

Cake Bible - White Spice Cake

Rose's White Spice Cake. The top got burnt a bit (all my dairy baking is in the toaster...)

Rose's Chocolate Pound Cake

This was 5 minutes after it came out of the oven. The rest of it did not last much longer... (it was also ready right at the end of the Tisha Be'av fast)

Rose's Lemon Poppy Seed Pound Cake

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Rose's Sour Cream Cake from the Cake Bible