Opera Cake
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It was my mom’s birthday this past week and what cake did she request? The one and only Opera Cake of course. I knew that this was a long and laborious cake to make, and I expected to spend around half a day on it. Just bake the Joconde cake, some
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It definitely took me a whole day. It was also daylight savings on top of that, so I felt like I was losing an hour every single hour. A large chunk of that time was spent calculating, and figuring out how I would go about things, so hopefully you wo
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The first issue I ran into was the size. Most of the recipes I looked at called for 6 whole eggs and 6 egg whites. I wasn’t quite looking forward to using a dozen eggs on one cake so those recipes were out. Turns out, the cake that you make using a
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I also realized that regular grounded espresso WON’T dissolve. It’ll stay grainy. Forever. So if a recipe says instant… use instant espresso. I have the nespresso capsules at home, so I broke one open to make the coffee syrup. As a syrup, I jus
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So what exactly is an Opera Cake?
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If you love chocolate and coffee, this cake is for you.
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Here’s the breakdown, going from bottom to top: chocolate, joconde sponge cake, coffee buttercream, joconde sponge cake, ganache, joconde sponge cake, coffee buttercream and finally a mirror glaze. 8 layers of goodness. But even after slaving away
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Compared to the other recipes, I also reduced the amount of sugar, and the cake still tasted really sweet, so I would recommend doing so as well. I found that it was just easier to make all the component separately, and then just compile all of it to
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