Saturday, May 31, 2008

quick access



I saw this container in a friend's kitchen and immediately went to IKEA to get my very own (50sfr). It has five heavy duty glass containers in a wood frame. Mine gives me quick access to salt, kosher salt, flour, sugar, and hot chocolate mix. I can easily get a couple teaspoons of these ingredients without hauling out my huge storage containers. It even holds enough flour make few batches of pancakes. I love it!

Sunday, May 04, 2008

yucky honey cake


it tasted as bad as it looked

I tried the Medovnik recipe floating around everywhere on the internet. It was yucky. I threw it away after one slice. Yes, I'm willing to accept that I prepared it incorrectly. But I'm pretty sure that no matter who makes this recipe, it's not going to be anything like the true Czech honey cake. It was a lot of work, too. After making the "cake" batter, I had to roll out five 8in circles and bake them individually.

I'm going to try this other recipe for 15 layer Russian Honey Cake. I like that it uses sour cream instead of sweetened condensed milk in the cream filling. If this recipe fails, I'm going to experiment with a spiced genoise. I'm determined to eat honey cake again!

Some things I learned...
- I did bake the cakes too long. The recipe recommends 3-5 mins, I did 6 min because the cake was so underdone at 5 mins. But after cooling, they were too dry, even after hours of soaking in the filling.
- I would cut exact circles immediately after baking so the cake would line up and look nicer. Plus the cake edges were crispier than the rest of the cake and I don't want to eat that part.
- The recipe has you crumble one layer and use that as the crumb topping - this is a great idea assuming the flavors are good.
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