Cakes Get Weird, Wear Boiled Icing

August  6, 2012

 

Pre-lunchtime, post-breakfast, cake is almost surely on your mind. (Right?) Evidently, it’s on ours. Spurred on by The Kitchn, we’re thinking about cakes with oddities today -- cakes that wear strange, old-fashioned outfits and cakes that have carbonation, but still promise to taste good all the same. They’ll make your go-to chocolate seem downright plain. 

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First, The Kitchn presents us with an essay about the tumultuous re-creation of a family classic, in which the author struggles with a boiled icing. And, just a little before that, they bring us a cookbook recommendation for a Champagne cake. The former seems slightly merciless, but we might give it a go. You know us: we’re always up for a challenge

Family Recipe: Boiled Chocolate Icing from The Kitchn

 

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Kenzi Wilbur

Written by: Kenzi Wilbur

I have a thing for most foods topped with a fried egg, a strange disdain for overly soupy tomato sauce, and I can never make it home without ripping off the end of a newly-bought baguette. I like spoons very much.

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