First time around these little cakes were an excellent wee case study on the art of perseverance. To summarise I managed to wreck two batches of ganache, accidentally make hazelnut butter as well as accidentally melting my cream up with melted chocolate that was too hot. Too much chocolate had been invested to give up so I kept on keeping on until I ended up with six actually pretty good looking baci cakes.
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Chocolate Drizzle Cake feat. Peanut Butter and Salted Caramel
So my Saturday was rather productive. I had plans to make a single cake for my friend's birthday. By 10am I had completed said cake and rather than cleaning up the bombsite that was my sprinkle covered dining table I decided to decorate up another. This second cake was for the sole purpose of eating. Also 'cause the economies of cleaning scale... saves me cleaning up twice in one weekend!
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Birthday Cake
The problem with making cakes is that you need people to eat them. My flatmates and I will get through maybe about a third of a cake max before we lose interest or fear our sugar intake has exceeded the yearly maximum to eat too much more. I got invited to a friend's 25th birthday gathering and leapt at the opportunity to celebrate with cake!
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