Cakes, Day 8

I finished assembling a tiramisu cake and put it in the cafeteria afterhours because I'm not a huge fan of it. I went back about 15 minutes later and the whole cake was gone. I wished I had taken out at least one slice so that everyone can share it. I didn't even taste it.

The day before we had made pound cake in 9" round pans to practice slicing them on a turntable. I managed to get four layers out of it. Cutting off the dome is kind of hard. Then we went on to the chiffon cakes made on Friday. With those sliced into layers, I made chocolate mousse cake.

Parchment went on the bottom and acetate on the sides. The bottom layer of the chocolate chiffon goes down, some cake syrup brushed or sprayed, then a layer of chocolate mousse until it's done. The mousse is the hardest thing I had to do so far. I had a few lumps in it the 1st time I made it, so I threw it away. The 2nd time was even worse. I wasn't going to make it again so I pressed out of the lumps I could. It's going to be dense when it comes out of the freezer today.