HCB: Génoise Tres Café

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See that pretty picture above of the pretty cake.

It looks all innocent like.

But, don’t let it fool you.

Because that pretty, innocent cake did not play nice with me.

You would figure that after almost a year of baking with the HCB group, I would have certain steps engrave in my brain.  And that list of steps should read like this:

  • READ THE WHOLE RECIPE, not once, not twice, not three times, but four times
  • READ IT AGAIN, just in case.
  • Stop being confident and cocky.
  • No trash talk back to the cake 

Instead it reads like this: 

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Popovers

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The year that I meet Tom, we travelled to Bar Harbor, Maine for the first time to meet his extended family.  The WHOLE family, as in there were over twenty people plus expected, we had a agenda of activities sent to us before the trip.  

Sadly the occasion was not a joyous one.  See, a week after I meet Tom, his father past away. It was not a surprise passing, his father had been sick for a while and it was his time to go, everyone had made peace and they were simply getting together to celebrate his life and to scater his ashes on top of Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park as per his request.  I wrote about this trip here and here.

The trip for me was a chance to travel within the US.  I have to come clean, having lived in the US for more than twenty years and I’m clueless about the country in general.  I’m a snob traveler and most of my trips involved the use of a passport, so I don’t know my adopted country that well - there I said it *hung head low*

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Sweet Kitchen Tips 22

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Unless you have a very expensive scale, bulky containers, large roasts, and the like can obscure the display on the digital scale, making it impossible to get a good read out.  To the rescue! Your cake stand. Steady a light weight cake stand on the scare and ste the tare at zero.  The cake stand, which is wide enough to accommodte large pans and big cuts of meats, elevates items so that the display is visible.

and to keep it clean, specially when you weight meats, such as chicken, meat, pork.  All you have to do is cover it with plastic wrap.  If you don’t use the elevating trick above, you can in some cases slide the entire scale into a large zipper-lock bag.  The buttons will visible and usable thruough the clear bag.