Well, I did try the Chocolate layered cake I referred to in my last post. Here are the results!
Glazed chocolate layer cake
1 cup flour
salt
5 large eggs + 2 large egg yolks
3/4 gran sugar
3/4 stick of butter
filling:
2 large eggs, separated
2 cups mascarpone cheese
1 cup confectioner's sugar
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
Disaster! First of all the above ingredients give no sponge like feel to the cake. It was super dense and very eggy. The eggy part is ok; however, it was like eating 3 dense pieces of cake with no "boing." I made two batches to make 6 layers as I saw in a picture. Double the disaster.
The best part was when I put the assembled cake into the refrigerator to set. The entire cake - all 6 layers toppled because the filling was not "sticky" enough. I used yogurt instead of the cheese. Bad move.
Learning: when using filling, you need a filling ingredient that will stick the layers together; otherwise, the filling oozes out and the layers fall on you when you open the refrigerator. haha, made for an interesting cooking session before my dinner party arrived to my place. Other than that, the party was a success!
The dinner party menu was Indian fusion, which is, as I am discovering, my style.
Chicken Tandoori (that is, braised with tandoori seasonings)
Roasted rosemary Okra, potato, edamame, corn in a light lemon vinagrette with shallots
Roasted yams and parsnips (out of this world)
Curry beef with potato and carrots
Rice
Dessert:
Cinnamon buns (made from scratch, and a prize dessert)
Toppled Chocolate cake
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