Well, the title pretty much says it all, right? Warning, this is a picture heavy post, so if you’re on a slow connection, be forewarned that it could take a while to load.
Yum!
I’m gonna pretty much let the pictures do the talking today.
Wrinkly soaked apricotsHm... I started the ganache, but now I need this for my apricots. Time to finish the ganache, and wash dishes, I guess.That's better.Looks like baby food. Or squash.Tastes a whole lot better, though.Perfect amount of leftovers (I did a half batch)Ganache and Lekvar. What's next?Oh. I need this for the biscuit. Looks like it's dishes time again.Much better. Heart of Wheat bread will be ready by supper time.Mise en Place for MeringueWhipped Egg Yolks + sugar + vanillaAfter folding in the flourTime to fold in the meringueI'm not very good at smoothing the surface of my cakes.All rolled up. Propped against the oven mitt to keep seam side down.All ready to assemble. Looks like someone made syrup, too.Lekvar spreadGanache Spread (with a layer scraped off and back into the bowl for the crumb coat after I read the next step)Ready for crumb coatGlaze softwareGlaze hardwareCocoa, sugar, and water mixed togetherCream and corn syrup addedWaiting for it to cool after yet another batch of dishes (see the clean strainer?)Ready to glaze.Wow. That was easier than I expected (It looks more precarious than it was... I think)!Shiny! Does someone want to buy me a pretty rectangular cake plate? Anyone? No? Bah.How did this get in here?
Hubby liked this, and thought the glaze was really cool. He (like me) was rather disturbed by the texture of the puddle that I scraped off the pan, though. Chocolate Jello! I put it in the freezer. Hopefully, I’ll find a use for it. I took the leftovers into work and sent an email out to a handful of people, rather than all of dev, because I didn’t want to email 30 geeks telling them I had cake, and have 20-25 of them go away empty-handed, since this was a pretty small cake. The few I emailed we rather pleased that they’d managed to end up members of some sort of exclusive club. I’ll have to email a different set of people next time just to keep them on their toes. Trade bug fixes for cake or something. :)
