So, we had the office potluck, and I was debating cooking some kind of super vegetable dish, or making a cake. I eventually settled on a cake, because it takes 10 minutes to make a salad and 4 hours to do a cake right. So hating all free time I have ever, clearly I choose to make a cake.
After some experiments with the ganache, I wanted to contrast it with a chocolate brandy buttercream, so I experimented a bit and this was the result:
Bleh, these cutting lines are terrible. Note to future self: Don’t let co-workers cut the cake if you want the cake to look good.
Maybe we can fix this by doing a few cuts ourselves:
Ah, much better. Look at those clean lines. The colors shine through and there’s a minimal mess. This is how you cute a cake. I recommend serrated knives, a cool cake, and heating the knife with warm water (and then drying the knife). Also, pre-cut your cake, because jeebus do hungry people mangle the thing. Don’t give them the opportunity!
This cake was rather tasty though. A blue velvet (which had a vanilla flavor), a classic yellow cake, a single row of vanilla bean brandy buttercream, and a rich chocolate brandy buttercream. I might use chocolate liquor in the future on the butter cream though. Time will tell 🙂 .