Since my presentation is not really a strong point.. its always a good thing that in most cases, the taste gets you over the ugliness of the presentation.
Birthday #1 .. Dave's Tiramisu
Sponge was a good recipe, except it didn't turn out as sweet nor coffee enough for me.
So it was ok average. The other tiramisu recipe turned out better, but it was too ugly.
Ribbon turned out to be a really nice touch. Very Blair-esque.
Birthday #2: Cathleen's Cake
I used the Red Velvet cake recipe from Joy of Baking website. Sponge was good, not chocolatey enough though. And the cream cheese frosting uses mascarpone in it, so its not as cream cheese as I would like. Too bad I have no idea where I put the recipe I used last, so that had a nice tang to it.
Anyway, so it was requested that there was chocolate ganache as well, so I tried to use that to cover the cake. Except, I use those chocolate melts, and it just wouldn't melt well. I covered it on top of some cream cheese frosting, so therefore .. it was a disaster!
HENCE.. its all covered up, and you can't see the came itself.
It was a good cake for asian family gathering, because it wasn't too sweet and I would say, it was a pleasant cake.
Nothing exciting, nor would I use the same recipe again though.
So.. I think I can finally get to post my first Daring Baker's result tomorrow. So excited, and it feels like its taken forever this month to go through.
Anyway, shall post it up tomorrow!
xoxo Mich
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