How Does This Sound For A Cake Flavor/filling Combo?
Decorating By Sugar_Plum_Fairy Updated 22 Nov 2006 , 12:08pm by denise4
I baked two layers of chocolate fudge cake (recipe from CC & very good!!). I was thinking of making a chocolate mint ganache for the filling and also had the idea of using crushed Thin Mint Girl Scout cookies between the layers as well. Then covering in chocolate MMF with a FBCT on top.
Please let me know what you think of this, or how it sounds, as it's experimental. Thanks.
Whoa! I can think of a lot of ladies and my brother who would go nuts over this cake! That sounds delicious.
Okay, so I made the cake, torted one of the two cakes, added my ganache between each layer and after grinding my Thin Mints I also put them on top of the ganache in the center. I've never made this before and found the recipe for the ganache online. Sounds easy enough - only four ingredients. Bittersweet Choc.; check. Heavy cream; check. Room temp. butter; checkeroonie. And Mint leaves....hmmm, oh yeah, the mint plant. I'll pick them fresh. (Oh, I also added just a touch of some chocolate mint liqueor too.) Didn't have as many leaves as the recipe called for so I figured it would be very mild in the mint department.
Dear hubby comes home and I let him taste it and he says he can't taste the mint. I'm like, I know it's not a lot, but I can certainly taste it. Oh well.
Later he's watering the plants and mentions that he really want to water the basil because it looks like it dying. I say "well that's because I picked so many leaves". He just stares at me. So I'm like what. He says, "Basil". I'm like yeah. He says, "No wonder I couldn't taste the mint. I thought you added mint".
OMG! I can't believe what I did. After I picked my jaw up from the floor I couldn't stop laughing. DH said we won't tell anyone and see who notices. I still can't understand where my brain has gone off to. Oh well, it still tasted good to me. So I guess the new flavor is chocolate fudge cake with chocolate basil ganache. lol
Can you say "DINGBAT"?!!!
that is awesome!!! it sounds like something i would do!!! or my mom, when after a day of playing in the hot sun me and my friends and cousins sit down to the table to drink lemonade sweetened with 2 cups of salt, instead of sugar!!! it's great that it didn't taste bad though, it's just you couldn't taste the mint.... 
yeah, this is right up there with posting my dumb question the other day when I wanted to know what it meant to "ream" the shortening. After the post I realized it was a typo!
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