This week's Tuesdays with Dorie recipe was chosen by Lyb of And then I do the dishes. In fact, it is meant to be a Chocolate Armagnac Cake. I certainly don't have a handy bottle of Armagnac lying around, so I opted for Cointreau. Chocolate + Orange = Deliciousness. As well as providing the recipe, I'm sure if you head over to Lyb's blog, she will further explain the title of the recipe (the cake that got Dorie fired), so I won't be a broken record.
Is it just me or have I been baking an excessive amount of cakes recently... chocolate ones too. Quite frankly, I'll be glad if I don't bake another chocolate cake for a few months. It really isn't a good idea to have full size cakes every week at our house, so I have been halving recipes.
If you read my last post, you will remember that I have a terrible habit of skimming through recipes far too quickly. My achilles heel got the better of me this week again- I forgot to add the sugar to the egg yolks! S was furious! I wish I hadn't told him in fact... the only reason I did was because he brought it to my attention. Upon tasting the cake, he told me that it wasn't very sweet. This was true... I really need to get on top of this awful habit- starting next week.
11 comments:
Although your cake wasn't sweet, it looks amazing! I absolutely loved the small piece I had!
WOW! Your cake is SO tall....I'm SO envious!
Very nicely done, Bria!
The shaved white chocolate on top is a nice touch, to add color but also texture! Lovely!
ooooOOooooo Chocolate and orange.
YUM!
Oh man, I can't believe you forgot the sugar. Your cake looks good though. Especially with the chopped white chocolate.
I forgot to separate the egg, so I just whipped everything together and hoped for the best! It looks really nice, though.
I have that same skimming problem. I often don't realize I missed steps until I am reading all the posts making reference to something I haven't even heard of! At least the sugar was minimal, so the cake still worked.
Well surprisingly the non addition of sugar was ok in the end. The prunes definitely added a sweetness, and since we ate it with ice cream, I didn't notice that it wasn't sweet enough or anything- lucky!
Yeah, it's tough having all of these chocolate cakes around! I had to get rid of this one... no more temptation! It's alright that you missed the sugar the cake still looks great!
I tend to skim recipes too but generally they're the ones that require overnight refrigeration or something similar that I haven't accounted for :) Great job on the cake!
chocolate and orange --- that sounds fantastic!!!
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