More Cake, More Cake Problems
8 Oct 2022 03:02 pmThursday Wax baked another boiled chocolate cake (this time with a dash of amaretto and coffee) with a coffee buttercream frosting.
This cake IS really good - as stated before, a boiled chocolate cake is incredibly smooth, rich, and moist without being underbaked or dense. The frosting recipe, though - Wax already modified it to reduce the sugar AND to reduce the overall amount (even though the recipe was supposed to be for an 8" layer cake, which is what she made), and the frosting is still both so strong and so overwhelmingly sugary that I can barely choke down a 1/16th of a cake sliver at a time. The sugar is a bit like being punched in the roof of the mouth by sugar every time it melts on your tongue even in spite of the strong coffee flavor. So rather than each of us eating a 1/8th slice once or twice per day, we've eaten only 1/8th between us two days in a row.
We went to the store today and bought soft pretzels from the Lidl bakery and I was thinking and...
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cimorene: We need to have guests over — otherwise it'll take us a full 8 days to eat this cake.
waxjism: Yeah... it's just so rich with all the frosting.
cimorene: We need an army of teenagers. Actually, your brother has one...
[cimorene whips out her phone, opens the all-generations family chat, and texts "Hey, Wax baked a chocolate mocha layer cake if anybody wants some."]
BOTH PHONES: *pling*
Wax's brother in Seinäjoki: Unfortunately, I can't come right now.
Wax's brother in Turku: Will there still be cake tomorrow?
So Wax's brother has permission to bring idk his bff, bff's elementary school kid, and two random strangers from other countries that nobody has ever mentioned to us before tomorrow for some cake. (We counted the pieces to make sure, but there is even enough for him to bring a piece home for Wax's 18-year-old goddaughter.)
Meanwhile, I am hoping the cake will be finished tomorrow so thatwaxjism can make another cake already. I've ordered this Iittala Kastehelmi cake stand (L), because I am unsatisfied with the quality of my cake photographs so far.
(This doesn't QUITE match our dessert plates (center) - from Wax's granny -, which are the iconic Ultima Thule (R) by Finnish midcentury design legend Tapio Wirkkala, but it's as close to matching as possible.)
This cake IS really good - as stated before, a boiled chocolate cake is incredibly smooth, rich, and moist without being underbaked or dense. The frosting recipe, though - Wax already modified it to reduce the sugar AND to reduce the overall amount (even though the recipe was supposed to be for an 8" layer cake, which is what she made), and the frosting is still both so strong and so overwhelmingly sugary that I can barely choke down a 1/16th of a cake sliver at a time. The sugar is a bit like being punched in the roof of the mouth by sugar every time it melts on your tongue even in spite of the strong coffee flavor. So rather than each of us eating a 1/8th slice once or twice per day, we've eaten only 1/8th between us two days in a row.
We went to the store today and bought soft pretzels from the Lidl bakery and I was thinking and...
cimorene: We need to have guests over — otherwise it'll take us a full 8 days to eat this cake.waxjism: Yeah... it's just so rich with all the frosting.cimorene: We need an army of teenagers. Actually, your brother has one...[
cimorene whips out her phone, opens the all-generations family chat, and texts "Hey, Wax baked a chocolate mocha layer cake if anybody wants some."]BOTH PHONES: *pling*
Wax's brother in Seinäjoki: Unfortunately, I can't come right now.
Wax's brother in Turku: Will there still be cake tomorrow?
So Wax's brother has permission to bring idk his bff, bff's elementary school kid, and two random strangers from other countries that nobody has ever mentioned to us before tomorrow for some cake. (We counted the pieces to make sure, but there is even enough for him to bring a piece home for Wax's 18-year-old goddaughter.)
Meanwhile, I am hoping the cake will be finished tomorrow so that
waxjism can make another cake already. I've ordered this Iittala Kastehelmi cake stand (L), because I am unsatisfied with the quality of my cake photographs so far. 
(This doesn't QUITE match our dessert plates (center) - from Wax's granny -, which are the iconic Ultima Thule (R) by Finnish midcentury design legend Tapio Wirkkala, but it's as close to matching as possible.)
