I've been staring at Dorie's cover cake, the Devil's Food White Out Cake since August when I purchased her Baking cookbook...and today I finally made it!Here's my thoughts in bullet form.
* I need to buy 8 inch round pans, I used 9 inch. I would have liked the cake taller
* I love my Wilton Leveler!
* I'm new to making the egg white, boiled sugar, 7-minutish frosting
* Not so sure about the Nielsen-Massey Mexican Vanilla I used. I think it makes the frosting taste "extracty."
* Feel like my cake looks like a blob. But it does taste great!
All in all I liked this cake. It's been a long time since I've made a layered cake, probably about a year or so. I forgot how much more time it takes and the fun behind frosting each layer. I guess I've just been used to the ease of cupcakes. I also loved all the chocolate and chocolate chunks in this recipe and the fact that you added boiled water into it! The one thing I didn't understand was that you could either use buttermilk or whole milk because I think they produce very different results. I used buttermilk. Anyway, the cake is chilling and I'm stoked to try it!
Check out the recipe on Stephanie's blog Confessions of a City Eater and the rest of the groups results here!
Next week: Caramel Crunch Bars
4 comments:
UH MAZING! it was sooo good!
OMG this looks really good!! I would love my readers to see this. Any chance this Sunday you could join my "Share your Recipe Sunday" and start adding some of your recipes on my Mr. Linky?
Thanks!
I think the 7 minute frosting was new to most of us. But it was good. Cake looks just fine to me. As long as it tastes good.....
I was wondering about the milk/buttermilk thing myself. But your cake looks great, and I hope you liked it!
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