This week's Tuesday's with Dorie recipe, from the cookbook Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan is Devil's Food White Out Cake, can be found on pages 247-249, and was chosen by Stephanie of Confessions of a City Eater. If you would like to try the recipe before buying the book, click on Stephanie's site above and she will have it posted today.
If you have seen the cover of the cookbook we are using, you are well familiar with the photo of this week's recipe. And, I am happy to say, mine looks pretty close to the photo on the cover. Which took a lot of effort. A. Lot. Of. Effort. And THREE kinds of chocolate. (I have decided that with Dorie's chocolate recipes, you are basically in it for three kinds of chocolate each time.) The guys here couldn't be happier.
The cake part went together very nicely (as usual, I managed to have chocolate from one end of my six foot baking prep area to the other, I don't know how that happens...it doesn't happen normally, but there is always chocolate everywhere when I finish these chocolate recipes...yikes). I didn't sub anything, baked it exactly as she specified, used the same size pans, etc. and it looked pretty perfect when I took it out of the oven.
The frosting, however, was very exciting. I have never made marshmallows before, so it was rather fun to get to basically make marshmallow icing. Whipping up egg whites, boiling sugar and water, pouring them together when the liquid is boiling and beating it like crazy for five minutes...what's not to love about all that??? Very exciting.
We were to cut the layer cakes into four halves and then crumbled one of the halves to use for the cake crumbles you see on the white icing on the outside. Let me just say, that despite the fact that it was more messing around with chocolate than I thought possible, it was a VERY GOOD THING that those chocolate crumbs went quickly and directly onto that cake, because otherwise, I could easily have been dipping into that icing all afternoon.
That icing is so very good...I literally licked the spatula...something I rarely do, but soft, warm, gooey, oozing, vanilla-scented, marshmallow...just too much to resist.
My taste testers are Mark and Matt this week...both of them absolutely delighted with the results. I would give you more comments from them, but their mouths were full of cake and icing with looks of ecstasy in their eyes...I think that is probably recommendation enough. They both did say this is probably one of the very best things I have made from the TWD recipes. (And those of you who tune in just on TWD days, if you are wondering about Matt's newly blonde hair, you can scroll down to last Friday's post...it's a swimming thing...only another swim parent can really understand swim hair.)
Make the cake...the hugs and kisses you get are great rewards!
Next week's recipe was chosen by Whitney of What's Left on the Table and is Caramel Crunch Bars, found on page 112-113.
Click here and then click on individual bakers' blogs at the site if you would like to see more of this week's recipe and the various ways people interpreted their quest. It is too late to join the online TWD baking blog, but you can always join us in spirit as the recipes for upcoming weeks are posted on the site and you can bake along in your own kitchen. See you there!