Epicurious has an amazing yellow cake with chocolate frosting:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/ ... ake-367789
Emilie, I want some of your cake(s)!
-Nancy
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| Author: | Emilie [ Mon Feb 23, 2015 9:13 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chocolate cake - frosting/filling combo |
I think I've used both, Empty Nester, although typically if I have cream in the fridge I'll use that. As it happens, I just made another batch of this frosting on Friday for a cake for a family gathering. I tried a new recipe for white layers (which turned really moist and held together well, which hasn't always been the case with white cakes I've tried). Since I had 3 egg yolks leftover from the cake layers, I made a quick pastry cream and used that as the filling between the layers and then the chocolate frosting on the sides and top. Really yummy. And FWIW, there was one thing that really surprised me in the process of frosting it. Because I was filling it with pastry cream, I put some of the chocolate frosting in a piping bag with a large round tip on it, in order to pipe a dam around the cake so the pastry cream wouldn't ooze out when I put the top layer on. So since I had the frosting in the bag I went ahead and piped it on the sides of the cake. What a time saver! I'd seen that done in years' past with the Wilton big icing tip or whatever, but have always just globbed icing on the sides of my cakes with an offset spatula. But based on this last cake I really think it might be worth putting frosting in a (disposable) piping bag to frost the sides the fastest. All I had to do was quickly smooth it out and it was perfect. Who knew!! Emilie |
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| Author: | Empty Nester [ Mon Feb 23, 2015 5:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chocolate cake - frosting/filling combo |
Thanks Emilie, My grown daughter will be home this weekend for her birthday. She likes yellow cake with chocolate frosting. My plan is the frosting you linked to with The Cake Bible butter/yellow layer cake. |
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| Author: | Emilie [ Tue Feb 24, 2015 8:50 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chocolate cake - frosting/filling combo |
Sure thing. Hope she likes it! Emilie |
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| Author: | phoenix [ Tue Feb 24, 2015 11:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chocolate cake - frosting/filling combo |
Epicurious has an amazing yellow cake with chocolate frosting: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/ ... ake-367789 Emilie, I want some of your cake(s)! -Nancy |
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| Author: | Emilie [ Wed Feb 25, 2015 9:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chocolate cake - frosting/filling combo |
You're too funny, Nancy. Actually I have a not-so-secret wish to start selling my cakes more than just occasionally (thus the giant stash of pink cake boxes of various sizes in a closet), but I just can't eek out the time from my day job to give it enough thought. Plus everything like that these days seems to require a lot of social networking and that's so not my thing in general. But if you ever travel through Central Virginia I'll meet you at the highway and give you a big pink cake box (not an empty one) for free.  Emilie |
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| Author: | fitzie [ Thu Feb 26, 2015 7:47 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chocolate cake - frosting/filling combo |
Emilie, if that's your dream, go for it. An ad on your grocer's bulletin board, windshield flyers, word of mouth by your friends. Good luck! fitzie |
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| Author: | phoenix [ Sat Feb 28, 2015 5:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chocolate cake - frosting/filling combo |
Woo hoo! Emilie you're on! What a great idea BTW for such a great baker 
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