fandomsecrets | [ SECRET POST #2749 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2749 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.

__________________________________________________

02.

__________________________________________________

03.

__________________________________________________

04.

__________________________________________________

05.

__________________________________________________

06.

__________________________________________________

07.

__________________________________________________

08.

__________________________________________________

09.

__________________________________________________

10.

__________________________________________________

11.

__________________________________________________

12.

__________________________________________________

13.

Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 073 secrets from Secret Submission Post #393.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I made this cake for

mechanosapience's birthday party yesterday. Inside, the bottom layer is flourless chocolate cake, spread with raspberry preserves and covered with chocolate ganache, and the top layer is devil's food with raspberry preserves swirled through. The frosting is raspberry-flavored Italian meringue buttercream. The lighting in the picture is bad, but those are fresh-picked raspberries and chocolate chips decorating it.

Oh my goodness, that looks so good. Mechnosapience is so damn lucky.

Thank you! Everybody seemed to like it, at least. :)

You're welcome? How long did it take to assemble and put icing on it?

Once everything was baked and ready to assemble, I don't think it took too terribly long -- I tend to be a bit of a perfectionist. I crumb-coated it first and put it in the fridge for 20-30 minutes, and then frosted and decorated it, which maybe took a little more than half an hour because I'm obsessive about leveling and getting the sides perfect.

(For anyone who doesn't spend half their life on baking blogs like I do, a crumb-coat is a thin layer of frosting applied to a cake to seal in loose crumbs and create a smooth surface before the "real" layer of frosting is applied. It's not meant to look nice, because it's going to be frosted over again later. The cake is then refrigerated to firm up the crumb coat, and then it's ready to frost for real.)

Argh, ignore that first question mark. You're welcome!

That looks delicious, wow. Would you mind terribly posting the recipe(s?) (If you want to!)

No problem at all! Actually, most of the recipes are available on the King Arthur Flour website. Let me find them...

Here is the recipe for the bottom layer of the cake, and the chocolate ganache that goes between the layers.

I used a half-recipe of this cake for the top layer, and swirled a few spoonfuls (maybe 6oz?) of raspberry preserves through the batter just before baking. The added liquid means it wants a few extra minutes in the oven.

This is the frosting recipe; I added a whole 10-oz jar of raspberry preserves, plus 1 1/2 tsp. of raspberry flavoring, and some food coloring, to the recipe. I still have some leftover frosting (it makes a lot!), but I'm not sure a half-recipe would've been enough. It gave me enough left to play with a bit of fancy piping, anyway.

So yeah. Flourless cake layer, spread with the preserves left over from the jar used to swirl through the DF cake, then pipe a layer of frosting around the edge of the cake to hold in the ganache. Pour the ganache in and tilt the cake around to spread it evenly, then settle the DF layer on top. Do a quick crumb-coat of frosting and let it hang out in the fridge for 20-30 minutes, and then frost and decorate. I thought using chocolate chips and fresh raspberries to decorate was a cute sort of way to hint at the flavors inside.

That sounds delicious. Do you mind if I c+p this to my tumblr? I use my recipe tag to keep track of things, and this is a thing I'd like to keep track of. :3

Go for it! (Would you be willing to post a link here, so I can be nosy? :3)

Thank you!

I posted it here: http://loracarol.tumblr.com/post/91700660562/two-layer-cake-bottom-flourless-chocolate-cake

Please let me know if you'd like me to change anything about the post. :)

Looks great! If you ever get a chance to bake it, I'd love if you dropped me a line or posted to f!s to let me know how it turns out (because, again, I'm nosy) :)

mmmmm that looks and sounds amazing ~~why wasn't I invited so I could eat some~~

~~why wasn't I invited so I could eat some~~

If there's ever a F!S meetup local enough to me that I can reasonably attend, I'll be happy to bake for the occasion! ^_^

oooh, that would be extra delightful!

(also, there was some talk about a meetup on the anon meme today...people keep talking about it. I wonder if it would ever happen. I'd love to do it, but don't know about spending the money to travel if it's really far...)

I should probably check out the anon meme. I keep forgetting about stuff like that.

And yeah, I'd definitely be up for going to a meetup if it was close enough that I could drive to it, but spending huge amounts of money on travel is less of a thing.

Where do you live (like, general area)?

I'm in Connecticut, so if there was a meet-up anywhere in the southern New England/New York/New Jersey area, I could probably manage it.

Re: Post stuff you've made!

diet_poison - 2014-07-15 16:51 (UTC) - Expand

I'd love it. I'd be a bit paranoid about people knowing my face, but still. But you're all so far away.

~~I picture you looking just like Sebastian Stan, only a lady.~~

eh, people know my face if they did the "post a pic" thread a while back.

I'd be more nervous about people knowing my name, but hey, if you meet someone irl, it's only appropriate. :P

kallanda_lee - 2014-07-14 09:15 (UTC) - Expand

Oh my, that's awesome! Also happy belated birthday to mechanosapience.

Thank you! And I've passed along your well-wishes to mechanosapience :)

Ugh, I could lick my screen, this looks incredible. What a pretty, delicious looking cake.

Thank you so much! I kind of went all out so I could show off for mechanosapience's folks. :3

I hope they were impressed! I would be. :)