So here we are again, it's Daring Bakers time, and this month I really was daring. An opéra cake is something I would NEVER have made, in my wildest dreams no matter how much I would have wanted to and read the recipe. I can now make my own nut flours - I made pistachio for this. I can make a sugar syrup, which hile not the most technical of recipes is something I have never made before. I have finally found a butter cream that I like aswell.
I'm not going to post the full recipe as it's posted on plenty of other blogs and you can see it here on Ivonne's blog Cream Puffs in Venice but here's what I did that make my cake different:
- I made pistachio flour - ground pistachios pulverised with a tsp flour for each 100g pistachios - smells AMAZING and everyone should try this!!!! I will definitel be making nut flour again.
- I used rose flavouring for my buttercream so 3 tbsp rosewater in total but to be honest I could have used more, I also coloured my buttercream with some cochinelle colouring to make it the rose pink.
- I made a cardamom sugar stock which is amazing, I still have some left and keep smelling it in it's little airtight container in the fridge. Smells like pure heaven for a cardamom addict like me!!!
Special thanks to Lis, Ivonne, Fran and Shea for hosting this months amazing challenge - Bring on the June challenge I'm ready!!!!!
12 comments:
Your cake looks fabulous! And how awesome that you made your own nut flour!
lovely ideas for the flavouring - cardamom and rose is a great pairing!
Your cake looks beautiful! Love the choices of flavorings and the pistachio flour! Great job
Your cake looks very cute and the flavors all sound so yummy together. Great job!
what a great combination, i love cardamom and rose water!! I think next time i will try to make the cake with pistachios nuts. great job!! -kk
Pistachio, rose, and cardamom sound so delicious together. I'm amazed at the variety of flavorings by the daring bakers! Great job!
Shari@Whisk: a food blog
love the exotic touch!
Love your use of pistachio nuts for the cake and cardamom and rose for the other components. Great job!
Oh, I love this flavor combination. Awesome cake!
Oh how fabulous :)
Such cute little cakes! I also love the pistachio...I bet it tasted fantastic.
Your cake looks really good! Rose and cardamom sound like great flavors. I have never used rose water before, mainly I'm afraid it will smell too strongly of roses. Cardamom is intriguing, I have only used that in Chai Tea.
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