Last Friday, our washer started acting up again, so I wasn’t able to do laundry. This didn’t make me too sad, because it meant I could bake! I went a little bit crazy with the baking though, which I seem to do a lot, don’t I?
First up, a pretty complicated cake, tiramisu cake, with a lot of moving parts. Well, not real moving parts, but it really seemed like it because every time I had a free moment, I was making or mixing something for this cake. It was pretty and it was also complicated. I really should not have made this cake, but I needed to use the mascarpone I made a few days ago for something!
I didn’t have a lot of time to make it as pretty as I would have liked. Since I ended up changing quite a few of the ingredients, I will repost the recipe with my changes. Most of my changes were due to necessity and not because I really wanted to make the changes.
The actual recipe (from Dorie Greenspan) is here.
This cake was a lot of work. I think it was mostly because I was mixing up the components of the cake in between baking two other things. I kept running out of surfaces in my kitchen to put everything!
I don’t think my cake layers turned out right. They tasted good, but I think their crumb wasn’t tight enough. In a way though, this gave the syrup a lot of crevices to soak into. I also did not use all the syrup I made. I thought it would be too much, but it ended up that I should have used all the syrup because the cake was a little dry by the time we ate it for dessert. I didn’t have any cake flour on hand, which is why I had to use all-purpose flour instead. If I make this again, I will try to find a yellow cake recipe that uses all-purpose flour and use that instead of the one in the recipe above.
I will admit that baking cakes is not my forte. I think cake is something I need to learn to do after I learn how to bake a few more breads.
I think I should have doubled the amount of filling/frosting. And I need to figure out how to bake a decent cake! Somehow, I don’t think my family will be sad that I plan on practicing cake soon.
The next two parts will be: Stuffed Crust Pizza and Mini Maple Cinnamon Rolls! I almost put all of them together in one post but that would have been too long!
-Lynn
P.S. Since my kids were going to be eating this cake, I did not use any of the coffee liqueur that is usually used to make tiramisu, another reason I had to change a few of the ingredients.
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