Out I went to the grocer after I did a quick recipe search. Found one from Epicurious and decided to set my sight on making this cake a reality! For those of you who have never seen or heard of Opera cake before, here’s a wiki page of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_cake.
In the end, after glazing it and frosting it with coffee cream and chocolate ganache, I had a 5x4inch cake – albeit a little lopsided. You see, at the end I was really tired. It took me about 3.5hours to build that cake from scratch, whipping, stirring, and whisking and I couldn’t be bothered anymore about symmetry.
All the effort was worth it. The first bite of my own Opera cake was worth the late night clean-up. *takes another bite of her Opera cake*
Definitely a cake to make again, and next time, I will make it with green tea. And remember to add my chocolate layers.
That is definitely impressive! It's gorgeous!
Very impressive for a week day baking
I don't know what you're talking about with symetry – it looks perfect to me. Seems substantially less chocolatey looking than what I think of an opera cake though.
Valérie: Why thank you!
Ken: I took pictures of the cake with the least symmetrical problems, of course!
And in the midst of fatigue, I forgot to add that other layers of chocolate ganache while I was layering them cakes. It's suppose to go above the coffee cream. *nods*
The cake looks fab! Very impressive indeed.
This cake look so beautiful!
This cake look so beautiful!
That is an impressive cake! I want a bite now!
Thank you, guys!
It's gorgeous! Love the layers!
LOVE Opera cake, looks so nice and tasty
Oh my, you are really gung ho. But they turned out beautifully – each layer is of the same height. Pretty amazing if you ask me.
Impressive work. Without the choc layers, it still looks good. I'll be glad to have you as my personal chef. LOL.
Oh just tilt your head a little, it's perfect and I bet it tastes amazing! ~LeslieMichele
I'm impressed. This is a beautiful cake. You see what not there. I see a product that looks delicious. I have to visit here more often. You have a lot of good recipes here.
I had never heard of this kind of cake…but is looks delicious.