Cake Test - Day 40

it was cake test day, but this was by far our most laid-back test yet. we had to make a three layer genoise, filled with raspberry, and frosted with butter cream. of course i had a horrible fear that i would produce a half inch genoise, but it came out fine.

these are the things that are wrong with it: there are little pockmarks in the buttercream because it should have been beaten longer, one of the rosettes was hanging over the edge of the cake, and the bottom layer of cake could have been soaked with simple syrup a little more. of course, my chef said it was still an A cake. i'm pretty sure he just knows that i can make a really perfect cake one day soon.


this is the inside after the chef cut it to grade it.






we had some mousse cakes still in the freezer. we unmolded them and stuck some marbled chocolate pieces around the edges.

these have 5 thin layers of a chocolate-hazelnut sponge filled and covered with chocolate-hazelnut mousse. i love cake, mousse, chocolate, and hazelnuts.


so i have 2 of these (minus one very large slice) in my freezer.