Let me get something off my chest; I have a problem with layer cakes that are 3 inches of cake for every 1/4″ of icing. My ideal is {in equal measure} cake, icing, cake, icing ..and so on and so forth until you run out of both. I want layers upon layers that are none too dry or too sweet. It makes it difficult to have perfect sides, and 30 second videos of the perfect […]
This cake is actually named “chocolate nemesis”. It is a wonderful invention of the brilliant ladies at River Cafe in London; and it is simply spectacular. I call it gateau noir; because, well, it makes me smile. Gateau noir is the name we gave a suitor {not mine} of a girlfriend; whom in my retelling of the 30 year old story, lovingly prepared gateau noir for her in the hope she would be his steady. […]
Iprefer a piece coffee cake to birthday cake because it has to rely on itself to be good. It doesn’t have some kind of amazing mocha-buttercream frosting to make it moist or big red roses with that funny but somehow pleasing taste. Also, it really does taste great with coffee or a mug of tea. It reminds me of my grandparents who insisted on having coffee and cake while playing gin and smoking cigarettes on […]
