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[Phaedra]

@Phaedra there is nothing simple about your sponge cake. As usual, it is a work of culinary excellence. Beautiful.

Coffee is ready. Still dark here. So I’m going to enjoy my coffee and an imaginary slice of @Phaedra’s sponge cake!

Thanks Bay, decorating the cake with whipping cream is more challenging than I thought, I almost lost my patience while doing it. The decoration took longer time than baking the cake.

However, I later learned that adding ingredients like white chocolate, corn starch, or gelatin can help stabilize it. I will do better (and easier, I think) next time. It's great to have a homemade cake in the fridge, and it will become a product for the cafe in the future, too.

 

[Dahlia]

Etsy Bitsy Lil Bunny Went In the Water Spout...

Is that the name? I'll have to check it out! Thanks!

 

[Dahlia]

@Phaedra there is nothing simple about your sponge cake. As usual, it is a work of culinary excellence. Beautiful.

Coffee is ready. Still dark here. So I’m going to enjoy my coffee and an imaginary slice of @Phaedra’s sponge cake!

I'm going to have an imaginary slice this morning also!

 

[flowerbug]

Is that the name? I'll have to check it out! Thanks!

no, it was just humor...

 

[digitS']

@Dahlia , @flowerbug has lately been tangled in some webs.

He has stubbed a toe between keeping Bitsy in the worm buckets through Winter and naming a shell company for laundering purposes or, throwing Bitsy out in the cold.



digitS '

 

[Phaedra]

Dear friends, first of all, let me wish you and your family a very merry Christmas!

My cake practices keep going on, and I can do this one already a bit better than the previous one. The sponge cake itself is made with half sugar and sugar-free cacao powder; the whipped cream for the decoration is a combination of 90% bitter chocolate and heavy cream, without sugar.

The sliced banana between layers offers a natural sweetness, a very balanced one.

We will have a tea with this lovely cake later.

 

[Dahlia]

Dear friends, first of all, let me wish you and your family a very merry Christmas!

My cake practices keep going on, and I can do this one already a bit better than the previous one. The sponge cake itself is made with half sugar and sugar-free cacao powder; the whipped cream for the decoration is a combination of 90% bitter chocolate and heavy cream, without sugar.
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The sliced banana between layers offers a natural sweetness, a very balanced one.
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We will have a tea with this lovely cake later.

Phaedra, you are incredible talented!

 

[flowerbug]

Phaedra, you are incredible talented!

i am also so appreciative that i do not have to say no to so many goodies as i would have a very hard time of it.

thank you @Phaedra for the well wishes and i hope you enjoy the rest of your holiday.

 

[baymule]

Merry Christmas to all the wonderful people here!

 

[Marie2020]

Thanks Bay, decorating the cake with whipping cream is more challenging than I thought, I almost lost my patience while doing it. The decoration took longer time than baking the cake.

However, I later learned that adding ingredients like white chocolate, corn starch, or gelatin can help stabilize it. I will do better (and easier, I think) next time. It's great to have a homemade cake in the fridge, and it will become a product for the cafe in the future, too.

Meanwhile... here I am on this Christmas morning trying to muster up my energy to bake my ever favourite coffee and banana cake with no trimmings at all.

Still, i would love the recipe of this cocoa cake please.