Chocolate Opera Wannabe Cake
This is a cheater's guide to making an Opera Cake. In fact, I wouldn't really call it a classic Opera Cake. A more apt description would be "Chocolate Opera Wannabe Cake". Well, when time and ingredients do not permit one to bake an almond sponge base, one would have to make do with a normal plain sponge. Here's what I did:
Slice the baked and cooled sponge cake into a few layers, and spread a layer of Baileys-flavoured chocolate hazelnut buttercream. Chill it for awhile then top with a layer of chocolate ganache. Chill again till the chocolate ganache hardens. Repeat the above. On impromptu, I also added a generous sprinkle of crushed peanuts and biscuit crumbs in between the layers to make up for the feeling of a "slightly crunchy almond sponge cake". Once done, frost and decorate the cake with leftover buttercream, chocolate ganache and biscuit crumbs.
Chocolate Opera Wannabe Cake
The cake (sans baking time) and frostings took me a matter of minutes to prepare. The frosting and decorating? A matter of hours, no thanks to clumsy and amateurish fingers as well as unco-operative hot and humid weather.
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15 comments:
hours??! must be enjoying the fruits of ur labour now eh?
I would love to try a bite of that opera cake *slurp*
Hi thenomadGourmand,
Not exactly now, this cake was baked early of this month.
Hi Selba,
Sure, would love to share the cake with anyone who's keen to try. ;)
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the choc looks tempting! and nice blog you have
wannabe or not, still looks damn fine, woman! lol..
Hi Satria,
Thanks for dropping by my blog.
Hi cumi&ciki,
Aw, thanks for the kind comment babe.
looks very pretty for a wannabe :). maybe you should give it a new name, so that's a new type of cake altogether!
Baileys-flavoured chocolate hazelnut buttercream!! Yummy! That's one lovely looking cake. Wish I had the guts to do something this challenging.
Dear SC,
*LOL* Thanks for the suggestion!
Dear lemongrass,
No real hardship. The key is not to stress/pressure yourself. You should have lots of ample time at hand too. *grin*
this is fabulous! u made it?!?!?!
that's really a piece of arts!
Hi ai wei,
Thanks! You are too generous with praises... *grin*
That looks awesome. Thanks for sharing, I am a sweet tooth and definitely love my dessert.
r u a photographer?! ur pics look really really nice =)
Looks delightful, even if it's a wannabe. I wannabe eatin' it!
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