Hola! Biff and I are BACK! And to celebrate, we slaved for HOURS, across two who days, on this white chocolate celebration cake (also known as wedding cake: the prototype). Well! Where to start? Check out the recipe here… it’s a recipe from Julie Goodwin, the first winner winner of Masterchef, and respected Fountain sauce spruiker. Girlfriend KNOWS her way around a stick of butter and a block of cooking chocolate, as this recipe attests to: it has 1.3 (that’s right, 1.3) KILOS of white chocolate in it, 400 grams of butter, and 500 grams of sugar! Needless to say, it is the last refuge of the fat shit. Check out our handiwork:
Well! We must say, we were pleasantly surprised at the overall taste of this cake. As we stirred the unpleasantly surprising cesspool of molten butter, chocolate, sugar and eggs, we had very grave fears for the success of our latest venture. Admittedly, we did not incorporate the flour with the chocolate mixture very well, resulting on an overly tough cake batter that really gave one’s shoulder a workout when it came time to cut the cake. His royal dootiness, Mr Biff, simply “guessed” at the required even temperature, which resulted in a slightly burned, crunchy cake (no nun has ever been this dry)… thankfully chocolate ganache hides all sins.
Have we mentioned the passionfruit!? It was super tasty, and not too crunetty in the cake… we usually have a pronounced loathing for passionfruit seeds, they are generally pointless and tedious, but these passionfruit seeds seemed to be not horrible and pointless (unlike this sentence). Zing!
All up, the verdict is that there is room for improvement, and we better get it right in time for Lexi and Ben’s wedding day, or ply all of the guests with excessive amounts of wine, so that the overall texture of the cake is not too jarring to their otherwise sensitive palates.
iona said,
August 29, 2010 @ 12:12 pm
As a guinea pig for the trial, I can attest to the cake being quite delicious, and not at all as terrifyingly packed with sugar/white chocolate as the ingredients suggest. Also I don’t really like white chocolate, so the fact I like this cake surprised me… And one more thing, I’m SO glad you didn’t add the extra sugar into the top layer of ganache, cause that would have really sent me over the edge
Angie said,
August 29, 2010 @ 12:38 pm
i’m jealous!
Lurl said,
August 29, 2010 @ 12:14 pm
Ooooh I wish I was still in the inner west for a piece of this ‘trial’ action. Would have been infinitely better than the Wiggles cake I had today
Oh the pitfalls of living in the country where packet cakes are plenty.
iona said,
August 29, 2010 @ 12:20 pm
meanwhile I have totally jut gone over the blogs and been reminded of the original trial of this same cake (with dark choc and raspberries!) As I recall that cake was INTENSELY rich! And as shocked as I am, the white version produced less of a diabetic reaction…
Angie said,
August 29, 2010 @ 12:38 pm
this cake sounds yummy! I can’t wait to taste the final thing!
TOM said,
August 29, 2010 @ 12:53 pm
“LOL”
Funny stuff indeed! I suggest a comb through of the text when not cradling a glass of “O” to amend all the typos though… *meow*
TOM
wandrew said,
August 30, 2010 @ 7:05 am
Tasty! Thanks for the mystery cake drop, Biff.
The texture could have been a little moister, and I found it just a touch too sweet (although, looking at the sugar/white chocolate quantities, I’m not too surprised). I’m not as white chocolate-mad as some, though, and I know the flavour gets eclipsed easily – especially by passionfruit.
I’m not crazy about the seeds either, but they’re against my religion or something. Maybe just a few for garnish on top? I liked that they were still in their little gooey fruit bits. Nice touch!
Rach J said,
August 30, 2010 @ 9:15 am
I am impressed by the ‘lickability’ of the icing….
Rachel said,
August 30, 2010 @ 12:46 pm
Love it! And while I agree with filling people up with wine, don’t forget you’ll only be down the road from delicious Portuguese tarts…
Helen Stuart said,
September 27, 2010 @ 7:41 am
That cake was awesome! Can’t believe it was a Julie Goodwin; I mean, she lives in the next street from my mother and my mother doesn’t make cakes like that. She makes chocolate sponge. And sometimes banana cake from the black bananas that will be thrown out if not rescued from the fruit bowl.
Well done guys. xx
Renee said,
December 11, 2010 @ 8:54 am
I totally agree with you on the passionfruit seed!