This month's challenge may have looked hard. But compared to the cake that i would consider my speciality, this was a piece of cake! lol.
This months recipe was an Opera Cake. I have not heard of one before this challenge but reading the recipe and looking at the online pictures, i was pretty excited.
I started this cake on sunday at noon by making all the pieces that went into the cake first.
The syrup was 1st and while that cooled i made the buttercream. As my light flavouring i used a raspberry puree that i make each summer and freeze. Made the cake have a lovely flavour and gave it a pretty pink colour.
Now i must say i have not been fond of the buttercream recipes that i have been making so far but this recipe was the best buttercream i have ever tasted in my life. I could have just eaten it by the spoonful. Forget the cake! lol.
I also flavoured the mousse with the raspberry puree and it works so well with the white chocolate.
The cake was the difficult part of the recipe. I ended up overbaking it and burning one of the cakes. I was waiting for a light brown color and completely missed that the bottom was dark brown. lol
For assembly i used my new mousse ring. I have been dying to try it ever since i bought it and just needed a reason.
I started with a cake layer, then buttercream, cake, mousse, cake, buttercream, mousse and then the white chocolate glaze. I did put the syrup on all cake layers.
The cake wasnt cold enough for the glaze to work perfectly, so i ended up with a top layer that was a little tilted and a glaze that was not perfectly smooth. I know, picky picky.
My guests were very happy to taste test the results and were pleased. They did not sing but then they are not the singing type. lol
I will be keeping this recipe in my notes for future use.
I did not leave myself enough time to pipe anything pretty on top of the glaze. Maybe next time.
Thank you
Sandra
