Recipe for Doberge Cake
Six layers of homemade cake are filled with chocolate custard, frosted with chocolate buttercream, and glazed with chocolate ganache in this New Orleanian classic. 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder sifted, 2 cups white sugar divided, 1 cup butter softened, 1 tablespoon butter room temperature, 4 cups whole milk, 3/4 cup butter room temperature, 4 large eggs beaten, 1 tablespoon hot water, 1 tablespoon baking powder, 3 cups confectioners' sugar sifted, 1/4 cup cornstarch, 4 eggs separated, 2 teaspoons vanilla extract, 3.5 cups sifted cake flour, 2 cups white sugar, 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoon vanilla extract, 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips, 2 squares bittersweet chocolate chopped, 1 cup milk room temperature, 2 cups heavy whipping cream, 1/4 cup all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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Mom's Chocolate Meringue Pie
Rich, creamy and very chocolaty, this pie 's ingredients are simmered slowly on the stove until they perfectly blend and the filling is thick and ready to pour into a pie shell. The chocolate custard pie is topped with a glossy meringue and slipped into the oven. 3/4 cup white sugar, 3 tablespoons cornstarch, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 5 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder, 6 tablespoons white sugar, 1 pie crust baked, 3 egg yolks beaten, 2 cups milk, 3 egg whites, 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar, 1/4 teaspoon salt
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Chocolate-Earl Grey Pavlova - ?
Vegetarian: yes
Vegan: no
Gluten free: yes
dairy free: no
I was expecting a difficult time with this recipe, but I wasn't expecting to fail so spectacularly. 3 times I made the attempt, and 3 times my pavlova was a weeping, soft mess.
In researching how best to make pavlova, I did find an incredibly useful resource here, that ultimately did not help me but can probably help one of you, should you endeavor to create one. Things that did help me produce a better failure of a pavlova:
Test for fresh eggs. Crack each egg onto a plate and see how tense the egg white is around the yolk. If it has a tension (rather than being loose and liquidy) this is a fresh egg. Carefully separate the yolk from the white.
Weigh the whites. The ratio is for every 30 g of egg white, you'll need to use 50 g of sugar.
Use caster or baker's sugar. This is super fine sugar, much finer than granulated sugar, and will therefore dissolve into the egg whites faster.
Don't over mix the whites by using a fast mixing setting. Don't go over speed 3 or 4 on a 10 speed mixer the entire time you're mixing.
Granted, this didn't help me in preventing my pavlova from weeping -- the unmixed sugar melting from inside the pavlova and seeping outward, preventing it from cooking on the bottom and firming up on the outside.
As I said, I tried three times before giving up, and each time while I did get a pavlova that weeped less and less, it's such a time consuming venture that right now I feel like I wouldn't try this again if Ian Knauer himself came over to help.
I did make the filling, just to see what it was like, and it's very good -- I'd give it 3 stars on its own. The only thing I would personally change is doubling the amount of tea bags to make the earl grey flavor stronger.
Maybe one day I'll return to this, when I've done enough baking and cooking that my kitchen instincts are honed enough to provide a different outcome, but for now this will be skipped. To those of you out there more bold than I, I wish you luck in your attempt.
Ingredients for the meringue:
1 cup sugar [substitute for caster/baker's sugar, and measure out 50 g per 30 g of egg white. I ended up using 153 g of sugar.]
1 tbsp cornstarch
3 large egg whites, at room temperature
Fine sea salt
1 tsp apple cider vinegar
1 tbsp finely grated orange zest
Ingredients for the filling:
10 oz bittersweet chocolate, 60% to 70% cocoa, divided
1 1/2 cups heavy cream, divided
2 Earl Grey tea bags [double this for more flavor]
3 tbs sugar [regular sugar works fine for this]
Fine sea salt
3 large egg yolks
Preheat the oven to 225 degrees. [I've also read it works best to preheat to 300 degrees, then lower the temperature to 225 after you insert the pavlova to the oven.]
Make the meringue: In a small bowl, stir together the sugar and cornstarch. [An alternative method is to leave the sugar unmixed, and mix the cornstarch with the apple cider vinegar instead, making sure there are no lumps in the resulting slurry.] In a large nonreactive bowl, beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt until they just hold soft peaks. [This should take about 10 minutes at a mixing speed of 3 - 4.] Beat in the sugar mixture, a table spoon at a time [waiting at least 30 seconds between each addition], then add the vinegar and 3 tablespoons of cold water. Continue to beat until the meringue holds stiff peaks, then fold in the zest.
Pour the meringue onto the parchment paper and gently spread it into a 9-inch nest, creating a well in the center to hold the chocolate cream. Bake the meringue until set (it will have marshmallow-y texture inside), about 1 1/2 hours. Remove the meringue from the oven and let it cool to room temperature, then peel the parchment away and place the meringue on a serving plate.
Make the filling: Coarsely chop 8 ounces of the chocolate and place it in a bowl. In a small saucepan, add 1 cup of the cream and the tea bags and bring to a simmer, then remove from the heat and let steep, covered, 10 minutes. Remove the tea bags and squeeze them into the cream. Whisk the sugar and 1/4 teaspoon of salt into the warm cream.
In a separate bowl, whisk the yolks together with a few tablespoons of the warm cream mixture. Slowly add the yolks to the warm cream, and gently cook, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon, over low heat, until it is just thick enough to form a streak when you run a finger across the spoon. Pour the custard over the chopped chocolate and stir it gently until the chocolate has melted and is fully incorporated into the custard. Let the filing cool to warm, then place in the well of the meringue.
Whip the remaining 1/2 cup of cream to soft peaks and spoon some on the top of the chocolate filling. Shave the remaining 2 ounces of chocolate over the whipped cream and serve.
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some whacky/weirdly specific cookie run headcanons i have
capsaicin cookie really likes the song "one two buckle my shoe" for some reason and nobody knows why. besides that most of his music taste is probably 80's-90's rock
electric eel cookie is afraid of escalators, this is a common thing for eel cookies
the fives great dragons all unironically think morbius is peak cinema, only those five, other dragons don't get it. hydrangea keeps having to watch it with lotus, same for mango with ananas. save them.
dark choco cookie is a cat person and also a cat magnet, he can just go "pspspspsp" and the cats will Approach him
royal berry cookie is the kinda guy to plug his nose and say "geronimo!" when diving into a pool or clap when the plane lands
custard cookie III loves watching MLP:FiM and jake and the neverland pirates (slight bit of projection on this one since i grew up on mlp)
there's a whole conspiracy theory about chocolate bonbon being a spy for the cookies of darkness (she's not) and she's really tired of it
rebel cookie regularly steals from lotus dragon cookie and distributes their wealth to the victims of their "wishes", he's also got his sights set on stealing from the corrupt elders in the republic
poison mushroom cookie's favorite movies are those badly reviewed animated films like the good dinosaur, home, and either of the secret life of pets movies
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