King Arthur's Original Cake Pan Cake

https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/king-arthurs-original-cake-pan-cake-recipe

Today, I baked a chocolate pan cake from King Arthur's most requested recipe-

King Arthur's Original Cake Pan Cake

It is a moist and delicious chocolate cake.

This cake is for my father-in-law's birthday.

Nicely baked from oven.

Instead of spreading the ganache on the cake, I piped out as florets.

Happy Birthday!

Delicious

 

Recent bakes

1. Bibimbap Cake

2. Strawberry and Watermelon Cake (My version of the Black Star Pastry)

3. Matcha Chocolate Drip Cake

4. Covid-19 popular stay-home recipe Banana Bread.

    And also an upside down Banana Cake

5. Chocolate Dome Entremet

6. Gingerbread Cookies

 7. Christmas Fruitcake

8. Basque Burnt Cheesecake

9. Matcha Cheesecake

10. Japanese Cheesecake

11. Japanese Matcha Cheesecake

Christmas 2020

2020 has been a tough year. 

Let this Christmas marks the beginning of all things wonderful.

Have a blessed Christmas.

  Galette des rois

The Galette des rois is a cake traditionally shared at Epiphany, on 6 January.
 It celebrates the arrival of the Three Wise Men in Bethlehem. 

Frangipane, a cream made from sweet almonds, butter, eggs and sugar is encased between 2 layers of puff pastry.

Bottom layer puff and frangipane

Out from oven

 And on to the table:  Galette des rois, The King's Cake

 

Happy Christmas

This Christmas, I have prepared 3 bakes;
1.Traditional Panettone 
2.Chocolate Pecan Pie
3.Zimtsterne : A Traditional German almond cookie




Traditional Panettone  

1. I first prepared my starter of flour ,yeast and milk.

2.When the starter doubled its volume, it was mixed in the mixer with the rest of the ingredients;
namely flour, butter, eggs and dried fruit mix.
I have cranberries, citrus peels, sultanas and raisins in my dried fruit mix.


3.The dough was then kneaded and shaped. It was then placed in a bowl and  left to proof til double its volume.

4.It was then taken out of the bowl, kneaded and then transfered into the Panettone mold. It was left to proof til double its volume again and/or when dough rise to the brim of the mold.

5.The dough had doubled its volume again and rise to the brim of the mold.

6.A cross was scored on the surface of the dough and a piece of chilled butter was placed at the in the middle.It was then baked for about an hour in the oven.

7.When it was taken out of the oven, I used two metal skewers and pierced all the way through the panettone and hang it up side down to completely cool it.

Very happy with the bake.

Chocolate Pecan Pie

 I also did a tray bake of chocolate pecan tart.

 Zimtsterne : A Traditional German almond cookie

Le Fraisier

A birthday cake for my mother; Le Fraisier
Genoise with strawberry fruit compote and crème Diplomat; topped with a fruit glace.

Carrot Cake

I baked this carrot cake with candied carrot ribbons specially for my father.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Here are steps from baking to assembly of my cake.

I used two 8-inch round baking pans.

Recipe is adapted from Martha Stewart's Carrot cake recipe.
The 2 cakes are then wrapped up and chilled in the fridge overnight before icing.

The first layer of cake was iced with cream cheese frosting.

Then top it with the second layer of the cake.

The cake was then iced totally with the same cream cheese frosting.

Candied carrot ribbons were placed around the entire cake.
These carrots ribbons were sliced carrots cooked in syrup til they were translucent.

A sprig of mint leaves was placed at the end of each strip to represent leaves of a carrot.

 Strips of the ribbons were also rolled into tiny rose buds to form a bouquet on the top of the cake.

 With additions of mint leaves to form the bouquet.




  The Carrot cake with candied carrot ribbons is completed.