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1 February 2004 - A Super Star Cake (for the Super Bowl) Can you say scrumptious? Well, I certainly couldn't with a piece of this particular cake in my mouth...of course I was shoveling it in ...surprisingly it didn't end up coming out of my nose I ate it so fast! Super Bowl Sunday just wouldn't be the same without some sort of feast to mark it in memory. I found a few chocolate cake recipes on Friday in anticipation of making dessert for my family on Sunday and S. picked the one for White Chocolate Truffle and Chocolate Fudge Layer Cake out of the stack. Bit of a chocolate fan is my honey...and his knowing my bro is a big fan of white chocolate helped a bit, I suppose. The cake was rich, dense and extremely easy to make (even easier than the Velvet Underground cake I made at the beginning of January), although it wasn't quite as thick/high as I had been picturing. When I got up on Sunday I was considering baking another half-batch and making it a three-layer cake rather than a two-layer one. But then I would have had to increase the filling and icing recipes and I didn't have any extra white chocolate...so I decided against it. Next time, maybe. The icing and filling were easy to make, but as usual with my cakes, most of the filling simply spilled out the side ...I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I can never seem to keep filling INSIDE of my cakes. So, since I had some filling left-over (turns out I could have made a three-layer cake...) I added it to the icing and whipped it again, making the icing slightly thicker and giving it more of a hint of white-chocolate ...delicious! Actually, I ate about 1/4 cup of the icing while icing the cake...that was lunch. The stars that decorate the top were the easiest and possibly most stunning part of the cake (that little extra always works to impress people). Yum. I ended up with a few extra, but it wasn't difficult to get S. to dispose of them. Carrying it to my parents place was probably the most difficult part of the whole project ...I think a cake carrying-type-thing with a top is a definite must sometime soon. I ended up tenting tin foil on top and praying for a safe arrival throughout the ten minutes it took us to drive over. It was a success -- although my brother did request that I make a lighter cake next time and S. said that this was more of a main event birthday-type cake, not an after dinner type. Next cake: something in the chiffon realm, definitely.
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