It was really hot in our kitchen on Monday. So where our problem in January was with things setting too fast if they had gelatin in them or were ganache for example, now our problem is with things not setting fast enough. It was so hot that as soon as we piped our cream (the fancy layer) it started to melt. Blah.But all in all this was a great little cake. It tasted great too. Hazelnut and chocolate and a nutella-like substance called ganduja are mixed together between the first 2 layers of puff pastry, then a hazelnut praline cream is between the second layer. Candied hazelnuts on the bottom on the 
outside, and really pretty candied hazelnuts on top, which I took a closeup picture of. Mine were AWESOME. You just make an inverted sugar syrup and add cocoa paste and food colouring to it and then dip it using a toothpick and then let it drip until it dries all nice and pretty. Remove toothpick and voila!
Plus tempered chocolate decoration! Sadly, the excessive need for icing sugar on top messed with the white balance of my camera, so that one picture is a little our of focus. Flourescent lights + icing sugar= no focus. But you get the idea...
outside, and really pretty candied hazelnuts on top, which I took a closeup picture of. Mine were AWESOME. You just make an inverted sugar syrup and add cocoa paste and food colouring to it and then dip it using a toothpick and then let it drip until it dries all nice and pretty. Remove toothpick and voila!Plus tempered chocolate decoration! Sadly, the excessive need for icing sugar on top messed with the white balance of my camera, so that one picture is a little our of focus. Flourescent lights + icing sugar= no focus. But you get the idea...
Don't hazelnuts make your tongue swell?
ReplyDeleteYes they do. And I popped one of those red babies in my mouth, went to bite and then spit it out when I remembered that in nature red means danger. But it's only sometimes...I ate a piece of this cake and it has those hazelnuts on the side and I was fine...and you know I can tear into a jar of Nutella like nobody's business...maybe it's not a real allergy? Like that one time I broke out in hives after eating shrimp, never to happen again?
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