Rather than make the brownies from the cookbook like the recipe asked, I decided to leave them for a future week and use the super sugary recipe from the Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook. To say I had trouble keeping 4 aside for the chocolate filling is an understatement. I pretty much had to keep Kris' fingers off them by swinging a flaming torch whilst screaming 'BACK, BACK I TELLS YOU!'
I didn't have any 7" baking pans handy so I threw the mixture in my 20cm tin and took up residence in front on the oven with a cup of tea, making sure there was no burnage going on. Saying that, I did set fire to my nice oven glove while the brownies were baking, ooops! I don't know whether it was the fault of the bigger tins or I took the cakes out before they were ready but they turned out rather crumby, much like two giant brownies. I had quite a bit of trouble handling them and in some instances had to glue bits together with chocolate ganache. I think next time I'll make sure I have the right sized tins.
And now, my cake and I are off to my mums house for a lovely Easter lunch. Ta ta for now :)
Check out the Sweet Melissa Sunday bakers to see what everyone else came up with.
15 comments:
Beautiful cake! I use parchment on the bottoms of full sized cake pans, if that helps with the releasing issues. (Butter tin and then butter parchemnt)
Have a great time with your family.
Your cake looks fabulous! I love the brownie bits on top. We thought this was a really delicious cake too!
Your cake looks great! This one was a lot of fun, and sooooo decadent...
Your cake looks great, sorry it gave you trouble coming out of the pan. I also had trouble keeping enough brownies around for the cake!
There are worse fates than having your cake layers taste like giant brownies! I love how beautiful and shiny your ganache is on top of your cake. Yum!
Nancy
I hope your cake went over well with the family! I'm sure it was delicious. Todd and I had trouble keeping our hands off of the brownies, too!! Happy Easter!
Beautiful cake Katie. I baked mine in 8inch tins (really don't know how you put up with the conversions - you rock)and mine were pretty crumbly as well. So even though they sunk a little, i didn't try to level them. Hoped mum liked it.
You'll have to give us an update on how the cake went over for the holiday!
Wow, that looks amazing! I am full of admiration :)
That cake looks just glorious with that shiny ganache on it. I am sure that it was the perfect finish to an Easter lunch!
Are you going to post the recipe for the Hummingbird Brownies? Because I would love to try them!
With that said, I have to know - did your mother try the cake?
Your cake looks great!
Hope you had a lovely Easter!
~ingrid
She didn't Megan, but she loved the Simnel cakes I baked specially for her.
I'll certainly do a blog post on the Hummingbird Brownies, they really are glorious!
Katie xox
Your cake looks gorgeous!! I loved this cake. Maybe I loved it a little too much.
my cakes were breaky-aparty, too. i had to glue mine together as well!! I'm so sorry to hear about your flaming oven glove, how sad and scary! :( i once set marshmallows on fire inside my oven (lets just say... if you decide to "roast/toast" marshmallows with your broiler, do NOT leave them for more than a SECOND without watching :) These events are what makes life fun though, right? (and those burn marks are reminders of funny/good times... Ahhh memories) :)
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