Strawberry and Green tea cake

This year, I baked three cakes for my daughter's birthday.
One for her class at school, one for the family, and this one for the party on the weekend.

Every year, I agonise over what sort of cake to make.  I spend far more time procrastinating on the design and structure than the actual time making it.

From the bottom, green tea sponge, strawberry mousse, plain sponge, whipped cream and sliced strawberries, green tea sponge, ganache, plain sponge, cream, strawberries and a chocolate decoration.

I used a dozen eggs, about 600ml cream, 200g chocolate, and about a kilo of strawberries.

I was happy with the flavour, but if I make it again, another layer of ganache would be good and the strawberry mousse could be a touch sweeter and with less cream and gelatin.

To be honest, I thought the finished product looked a little rough around the edges, but the kids didn't care and my friends, who are the parents of the children (all 12 of them) liked it and that is all that matters.

Opera Cake

It has been a while, quite a long while since my last post.
Maintaining three blogs turned out to be a little too ambitious for me.
However, if I bake something noteworthy, I decided to keep Baking Mad on the Mountain going from time to time.

Every year, towards the end of August, we either buy or I bake an Opera Cake to celebrate our wedding anniversary.
I must say that choosing the opera cake as our wedding cake was an inspired choice.

This is my third attempt at making the cake myself.
It doesn't look as pretty as the store bought ones, but I can honestly say that it tastes better than the ones from the D# or the L#.

The cake consists of Biscuit Joconde, coffee butter cream, coffee syrup, ganache, and tempered chocolate.

It is incredibly rich and just beautiful.

We have a real incentive to keep our marriage in good order so that we can indulge every year till death do us part.