Thursday, June 16, 2011

Heavenly Cake Bakers: White Gold Passion Genoise

Strangely, not my favorite of the Heavenly Cakes. For some reason, Rose and I seem to part ways when the frosting involves cream cheese, which doesn't even make sense, as all cream cheese frosting should be delicious. The cake was a bit dense, which was my fault, as I got the mixing instructions backward and mixed all the egg whites into the butter, deflating them quite a bit.

The frosting was ok, and the passion curd, as always, was amazing. I had it all over my breakfast muffins for days, and am definitely trying to worm it into the wedding cake. The flecks in the passion fruit curd are because I made it with the leftover brown butter. The leftover syrup was spectacular in selzer. I think next time I'll skip the whole cake and just make stuff with passion fruit.

6 comments:

Jenn said...

It looks awesome Katya. Passion curd for the summer wedding cake sounds like an excellent idea!

Unknown said...

it looks delicious! i'm glad to know the passion curd was great because it is such a hastle to find.

Vicki said...

I'm so not looking forward to making this cake. Glad to know the curd is delicious.

Marie said...

This cake was one of my favorites--loved that passion fruit curd too! In fact, I started thinking about it when I saw your picture, and now I think I'm not going to be able to get to sleep because of my passion fruit curd yearning.

Lois B said...

I haven't made this one yet. Glad to know the curd is so good.

Alpha Baker Joan said...

SInce I first saw this cake in RHC i have thought about baking it. Thanks for your helpful comments