Pralet

I just got my Chef last week.

Finally!!

It was in the service centre for more than 3 weeks already. It's about time... else i'd report kidnap! :P

The first thing i wanted to bake was some really solid butter cake or sugee cake. I craved for it. However i got lazy, postponed and postponed until i could stand myself no more! Grin.

Instead of the cakes i craved, i baked this... something which i have been preparing to bake since ages ago. Didn't wanna waste the soon-to-be-expired ingredients.

Pralet, made famous by Jo. A nice girlie girl :)



I know!

The deco sucks right?? Hahahahhaa... i feel rather ashamed actually but i still wanna post this up! Something which i might laugh at myself later when i read back :P

So so rich - chocolate

I took quite sometime to do this cake. I wonder if it's because i had stopped baking for a month or something. The hands got slow. Grin.

But come to think not really though. This cake does take quite a bit of time.

I had to do the sponge, then the biscuit layer, the chocolate mousse, the chocolate topping and last but not least, the decoration.

That, is a whole lot of work!

In total, i took 2-3 hours, including refrigerating before assembling.



This cake, has quite many layer as i have kinda described above.

From bottom :

the sponge, the biscuit layer where the biscuit [or rather feuilletine(sp?) to be exact] got coated with nutella, melted chocolate and butter, 2nd sponge layer, chocolate mousse -- whipped cream + sugar syrup + stiff peaks egg + melted choc -- that has power alcohol [rum + grand marnier] content, 3rd sponge layer, chocolate mousse again and finally, the chocolate topping.



So how do i like this?

Initially, i don't. I somehow still prefer my truffle cake. Hehehehehehe..

But. After 2 more slices, i fell in love with it. It was really good. I guess it takes time, for me that is. Perhaps because i am biased towards my truffle cake! :P But for others eg; helper + hb + kids + bestie, it was love at first mouth *wink*.

The alcohol was really power. I actually felt my throat getting 'heated up' everytime i eat it. No joke. No wonder some of the testimonials stated 'got high from eating this'. But i didn't la of course. Just had that 'hot' sensation at the throat. Same kinda hotness that i get whenever i drink my DOM. Heh.

Photos. I am pretty thankful that the photos turned out alright.

The first time i shot the cake, i was like dang, again.. the photos can't bring out the cake that i wanna describe, just like my truffle cake. It doesn't look appealing at all. Does no justice to it. Then, after a couple of hours, i decided to give it another try.

This time, i put in some effort. I was determined to do it properly. That includes lying on the stomach and taking the photos from various angles. I have always been quite put off by taking food photos. As much as i lurveee photography, the camera i have turns me off. I want a new camera! On top of that, i have got no props too :(

No nice mats, no nice tea towels, no nice cutleries, plates, bowls etc. What i have is rather sad. I tried hunting up and down for table mats and tea towels especially but to no avail. I like bright and colourful colour ones but i can never find them. Aihhss...

And and.. no background. Because the camera is ultra sensitive to lighting, i can only do my shooting in the balcony. I like having 1 colour plain background + surface eg; a white wall and a white surface.

But yeah, anyway.. i am glad the second time round, the photos turned out okie. But not the first photo though, coz i took that shot during my first round. Can't re-shoot it coz the cake has been half eaten by then! :P