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The Goldilocks Cake {Lemon Pistachio Layer Cake}

June 9, 2019 By Korena in the Kitchen 1 Comment

The Goldilocks Cake {Lemon Pistachio Layer Cake} | Korena in the Kitchen

If you are a long time reader, you may be aware that I have been on a multi-year quest to make a lemon layer cake that is juuuuust right. I’ve made many, many attempts – the first one, with dense layers and teeth-achingly sweet cream cheese frosting; this meringue-topped beaut that introduced me to Tartine’s fantastic lemon cream; this lemon, blackberry and white chocolate behemoth; a cake with wonderfully soft and light layers but disasterously drippy frosting; another lemon and blackberry behemoth with more drippy frosting; and most recently, one that featured a brilliant lemon curd formula and was so pretty – but all were too dense or too sweet or too drippy, and still not juuuuust right.

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Filed Under: Cakes & Pies, Recipes Tagged With: buttercream, cake, dessert, lemon, lemon curd, lemon layer cake, pistachio, pistachio cake, recipe, Swiss Meringue Buttercream, whipped cream

Decorated Swiss Rolls

October 27, 2016 By Korena in the Kitchen 9 Comments

Decorated Swiss Rolls | Korena in the Kitchen

This month I hosted the Daring Kitchen challenge and invited the group to make decorated Swiss rolls, aka “deco rolls”, in the style of Japanese food blogger and cookbook author Junko, who has taken the internet by storm with her adorable “kawaii” versions. This concept is a standard French pastry technique with the use of décor paste to create a pattern on a joconde sponge (which was tackled by the Daring Bakers back in 2011), and making it into a Swiss roll is an obvious next step, so when I was preparing this challenge, I decided to try it the French way. Unfortunately the results were not stellar – the décor paste cracked and the filling escaped when I rolled the cake up, because the décor paste was harder and less flexible than the surrounding sponge cake.

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Filed Under: Cakes & Pies, Chocolate, Daring Bakers / Daring Kitchen Challenges, Recipes Tagged With: baking, blackberries, chocolate, cream cheese, Daring Kitchen Challenge, deco roll, Junko, Nutella, recipe, sponge cake, strawberries, Swiss roll, whipped cream

Sourdough Scones {Strawberry Nectarine Shortcakes with Balsamic Syrup}

May 20, 2015 By Korena in the Kitchen 9 Comments

Sourdough Scones and Shortcakes | Korena in the Kitchen

I love scones, and I love sweet baked goods made with sourdough starter. So how is it that I’ve only made scones with sourdough starter ONCE before? It was time, and the Sourdough Surprises challenge this month was to make sourdough biscuits (which I took to mean scones), so I had a good reason. I modified a buttermilk scones recipe to use mature/discard sourdough starter, which has a comparable acidity to buttermilk and therefor the action of the chemical leaveners is similar. These scones are tender and slightly springy on the inside and crunchy-crumbly on the outside. They’d be great served with butter, jam, and a cup of tea, but I decided to turn them into shortcakes for dessert with the addition of some fruit and whipped cream.

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Filed Under: Breakfast & Brunch, Fruit, Recipes Tagged With: balsamic vinegar, biscuits, nectarines, recipe, scones, shortcake, Sourdough Surprises, strawberries, summer dessert, whipped cream

Caramel Cake with Raspberries and Cream

July 12, 2013 By Korena in the Kitchen 25 Comments

I turned thirty this past Sunday. Thirty. I know that age is just a number and I’m still plenty young, but it sounds a lot older than twenty-nine, somehow. It was a milestone, anyway, so there had to be an appropriate cake. As with every birthday cake I make, there was some agonizing over what kind it should be – but only a little. I already had it narrowed down between a crêpe cake or a caramel cake, and the caramel cake won. (But the crêpe cake is still on the list, because WOW.)

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Filed Under: Cakes & Pies, Recipes Tagged With: baking, birthday cake, browned butter, caramel, celebration cake, raspberries, recipe, Swiss Meringue Buttercream, whipped cream

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