Comments on: Let’s Bake a Cake! https://www.saltshaker.net/20060919/lets-bake-a-cake Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:54:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: SaltShaker » Blog Archive » The Grapes of (No) Wrath https://www.saltshaker.net/20060919/lets-bake-a-cake#comment-10648 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:04:43 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20060919/lets-bake-a-cake#comment-10648 […] And finally, a bit more of a change. Initially I’d envision a genoise cake, fill it with a grape compote, and garnish it with a little “black grape foam”. The genoise flopped completely – I think a combination of the high humidity the last couple of days and just bad luck. Not having time to make another cake, and figuring it might come out the same, I fudged a bit, ran to the corner panadería, intent on finding a nice little pound cake or something that I could serve – after all, the features were really the grape compote and foam. They had nothing available except these meringues. Not one of my favorite things, but, necessity and all that – I grabbed the merengues and used them. The following nights, rather than that, I played around with a classic whole egg white cake recipe that, made into cupcakes, worked for presentation, and was delicious! The cupcake was a quick and easy beaten mixture of 2½ cups + 2 tablespoons of cake flour, 1½ cups sugar, 3½ teaspoons of baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt – all sifted together, then mixed with ½ cup of melted butter, 1 cup of milk, 1 teaspoon of vanilla, and 3 eggs. Baked in muffin tins… and voila! […]

]]> By: SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Babette’s Inspiration https://www.saltshaker.net/20060919/lets-bake-a-cake#comment-8044 Sun, 03 Dec 2006 12:35:29 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20060919/lets-bake-a-cake#comment-8044 […] The film’s feast finished, if my sources and memory are correct, with a fig tart of some sort. Fresh figs, alas, are not in season yet here. I decided to make a genoise cake – mostly because it’s about the only cake I really make well. To soak it, I used a mix of fig syrup that I found in a local specialty shop and some of Tapaus’ honey liqueur. To serve it, I topped it with freshly whipped cream and some jarred figs in syrup that the cheese shop where I got the Morbier had – mostly for a little color and contrast. Good, but fresh figs would have been even better – and I’d have probably ended up making something like a fresh fig cheesecake, something that they used to serve at The Oyster Bar at Grand Central Station, and was worth going there for, oysters aside. […]

]]> By: ksternberg https://www.saltshaker.net/20060919/lets-bake-a-cake#comment-1626 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:09:50 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20060919/lets-bake-a-cake#comment-1626 Wow! Happy birthday, Dan. Sharing the same birthday as Mike Royko would be fine by me. He was a sensational reporter and writer.

]]> By: dan https://www.saltshaker.net/20060919/lets-bake-a-cake#comment-1623 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:13:05 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20060919/lets-bake-a-cake#comment-1623 Ahh, the “research” is easy – plug your birthday into Wikipedia, you’ll get lists!

]]> By: Saratica https://www.saltshaker.net/20060919/lets-bake-a-cake#comment-1622 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:05:56 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20060919/lets-bake-a-cake#comment-1622 Happy Birthday! Ditto on the dreams. You’re the man who can make ’em happen, that is fer sure. I love the idea of “who did what to whom/what” on 9/19. Also my father’s birthday. I’m going to research mine, see what I come up with…. Surely other famous and talented people have the same birthday!!! Will try to make the cake, too. We’ll see on that one. Hope your day was grand.

]]> By: Paz https://www.saltshaker.net/20060919/lets-bake-a-cake#comment-1617 Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:42:44 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20060919/lets-bake-a-cake#comment-1617 What a special cake for a special person! HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! May all your dreams continue to come true.

Best,
Paz

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