Biscuits and chocolates and a cake.
So I have decided to start making cakes and confections. In short, baking. I am pretty awesome at cooking, pardon the modesty, but baking is something I haven't really dabbled in. So better late than never and one of my resolutions for 2012 is to start baking. As Monica puts it, "I want to be the mom who makes the world's best chocolate chip cookies!" :D
Anyway, for Christmas night, I decided to start with something really simple and nice. This was a biscuit cake we used to make a lot during my LSR days, mainly because it didn't require a lot of hard work (or an oven). Nisha (who showed us the recipe) used to call it the 'Marie cake' (Marie biscuits are the main components of this cake. Hence, the name).
So the basic requirements are just those, basic. Nothing very hi-fi or ingredients that will require you to look through fancy supermarket aisles and ask that prissy lady at the counter about 'brown sugar'. You get a big packet of Marie that has around 36 biscuits in it. That should be enough for a medium-sized cake. You also need cocoa powder, coffee, some chocolate, powdered sugar (preferably), and lots of Hershey's chocolate syrup.
You start off by mixing sugar (four big spoons), two tsps of coffee and two spoonfuls of cocoa powder. Add just a couple of drops of water and start whisking everything together in a bowl. I prefer to whisk the items in a slightly dry state, but later on I also added half a cup of hot water to felicitate the stirring, ensuring the sugar dissolves. The resulting mixture will look somewhat like this:
Then remove the biscuits from the packet and one by one, coat them in the chocolate-coffee mixture that we made above. Coat another biscuit and place it exactly on top of another and create a stack/tower of biscuits. I made a tower with 18 biscuits, and managed to create three separate towers. You can also add some whipped cream and apply it within the biscuits.
Put the towers in the fridge to cool. After a couple of hours (I kept them in the fridge overnight), remove them from their cold surroundings and allow to sit on the counter for sometime before you start with the garnish.
To assemble the cake, take one stack and place it on its side. Then gently, with a firm hand and a sharp knife, cut the tower of biscuits diagonally, so that you can see alternating layers of biscuits and chocolate in each slice. Cut every tower in this manner and lay out the slices on a plate. Then liberally squeeze out Hershey's in any conceivable design or shape (I went wild with the liquid chocolate :D) Grate some dark chocolate over the mound of cake slices and voila! Your simple, homemade cake is ready to be devoured! Bon appetit! :)
Anyway, for Christmas night, I decided to start with something really simple and nice. This was a biscuit cake we used to make a lot during my LSR days, mainly because it didn't require a lot of hard work (or an oven). Nisha (who showed us the recipe) used to call it the 'Marie cake' (Marie biscuits are the main components of this cake. Hence, the name).
So the basic requirements are just those, basic. Nothing very hi-fi or ingredients that will require you to look through fancy supermarket aisles and ask that prissy lady at the counter about 'brown sugar'. You get a big packet of Marie that has around 36 biscuits in it. That should be enough for a medium-sized cake. You also need cocoa powder, coffee, some chocolate, powdered sugar (preferably), and lots of Hershey's chocolate syrup.
You start off by mixing sugar (four big spoons), two tsps of coffee and two spoonfuls of cocoa powder. Add just a couple of drops of water and start whisking everything together in a bowl. I prefer to whisk the items in a slightly dry state, but later on I also added half a cup of hot water to felicitate the stirring, ensuring the sugar dissolves. The resulting mixture will look somewhat like this:
Then remove the biscuits from the packet and one by one, coat them in the chocolate-coffee mixture that we made above. Coat another biscuit and place it exactly on top of another and create a stack/tower of biscuits. I made a tower with 18 biscuits, and managed to create three separate towers. You can also add some whipped cream and apply it within the biscuits.
Put the towers in the fridge to cool. After a couple of hours (I kept them in the fridge overnight), remove them from their cold surroundings and allow to sit on the counter for sometime before you start with the garnish.
To assemble the cake, take one stack and place it on its side. Then gently, with a firm hand and a sharp knife, cut the tower of biscuits diagonally, so that you can see alternating layers of biscuits and chocolate in each slice. Cut every tower in this manner and lay out the slices on a plate. Then liberally squeeze out Hershey's in any conceivable design or shape (I went wild with the liquid chocolate :D) Grate some dark chocolate over the mound of cake slices and voila! Your simple, homemade cake is ready to be devoured! Bon appetit! :)
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