My brother turned twenty this week, so about two weeks ago I sent him a massive list of potential cakes from websites like Smitten Kitchen, Fine Cooking, and Epicurious so he could choose the bestest cake ever, and then I could spend three days in the kitchen making it.
In the end, he chose the chocolate cake from my cookbook, Maple Syrup on Everything. The cake is a beauty, if I do say so myself. Three layers, each of which are separated with a whipped white chocolate ganache frosting. Then, the entire cake is wrapped in a mocha milk chocolate frosting, and topped with a dark chocolate version of the same, said, utterly delicious frosting. Good choice, brother. Being a cake connoisseur clearly runs in the family.
… hungry yet?
So how can we get the recipe? I GOOGLEd “Maple Syrup on Everything”, but could not find it.
Hi Janey! Congratulations on being probably the third person ever to read this post, haha. Anyhow, I wasn’t able to get this book published, so you can find the recipe here.
Thank you, Marie. You should put these photos with that recipe. I’m also curious how you make the top look like that.
I got the top to look like that using icing in a piping bag with a closed star icing tip. I used different photos for the recipe since I didn’t include the frosting recipe and that’s all you see here—this one is a whipped chocolate ganache recipe, and it’s just divine (though rather hard on your hand mixer—I burnt one out with it :/).