Every time I condition my hair with Joico (recommended to me by the girl who cut my hair last and totally not worth the money, incidentally), I think, I want to eat this.
When I was drinking a Henry Weinhardt vanilla cream soda the other day, these ideas collided and I realized that the light, airy cake I've been craving is a citrusy honey vanilla cake.
So I pulled out Chocolate Desserts and used the cocoa cake for a base recipe to make a honey vanilla orange lemon cake. I soaked it in a honey vanilla orange lemon syrup and filled it with vanilla and honey whipped creams. The cake fell a little, so it was tough, and the whipped cream was too sweet. I think next time I'm going to add more vanilla, cut most or all of the honey out of the soaking syrup, and leave the powdered sugar out of the honey whipped cream. If there is a next time. I may make the cake base again; I'm not sure if I'll fill it with whipped cream. It just wasn't hitting the spot.
Fairy Cake
honey vanilla cake (adapted from Cocoa Cake, Chocolate Desserts, Pierre Herme)
7/12 C cake flour, -1 TB
3 1/2 TB corn starch
5 1/2 TB unsalted butter9 large egg yolks, room temperature
1 1/4 C sugar, -1 TB1 TB honey
1 TB vanilla1 drop lemon oil
2 drops orange oil5 large egg whites, room temperature
Sift together flour and starch. Melt butter and set aside to cool to room temperature. Divide sugar in half. Beat egg yolks until pale and fluffy, adding one half of the sugar sugar a bit at a time. Beat in vanilla, orange oil, lemon oil, and honey. Clean beaters. Beat egg whites to a soft peak. Gradually add the remaining half of the sugar and beat until peaks are firm and shiny.
Fold the dry ingredients and 1/4 the beaten whites into the yolk mixture. Stir a few teaspoons of this mixture into the cooled melted butter, stirring to incorporate the butter as much as possible. Add the butter and remaining whites to the yolks. Quickly and gently fold everything together.
Set cake aside to cool.
soaking syrup
6 oz water2 drops lemon oil
2 drops orange oil1 tsp honey
1 tsp vanillaMix all together. Heat briefly to ensure complete mixing. Set aside to cool.
honey and vanilla whipped creams
3 C heavy whipping cream4.5 tsp vanilla1 TB honey
approximately 3/4 C powdered sugarBeat whipping cream to soft peaks. Beat in 3 tsp. vanilla. Take 2 C of whipped cream and put in another bowl. Add app. 1/2 C powdered sugar and additional 1 tsp vanilla to larger bowl of whipped cream. Beat to firm peaks.
to finish:
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