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Homemade Birthday Cake Special Recipes By Julia Child

The infamous chef of France back in the early 1900s Julia Child, some of you may remember her face as the prolific Meryl Streep from the movie Julie and Julia. She was one of the most celebrated chefs of France and cooked with fun, frolic and ease. Her personality is quite like that of a cake itself. Back then, she said, that party without the presence of a cake is just meeting, and to that, we could not help but agree more. A happy gathering calls for celebration and celebration calls for a warm and well-baked homemade cakes. Here is the infamous Chocolate Almond cake recipe once shared by child in her book. This cake will guarantee to stimulate your senses and make the best homemade birthday cake ideas.

Chocolate Almond Cake

 When you are a self-proclaimed homemade baker then you get one thing free and that is, loving yet constructive criticism. The homemade bakes have their own loving army of royal tasters, who would even help you mix a few things with their little hands and mix the dry ingredients with their slim and tiny little fingers. The cake is an amazing way to indulge children to work inside the kitchen and teach them how to make a simple birthday cake, and what could be better to introduce kids with such a delicious and special birthday cake.

Ingredients

  • 8 tablespoon of unsalted butter
  • More for the pan
  • Half cup of all-purpose flour
  • 4 ounces of chocolate, semisweet
  • Rum – 2 tablespoon
  • 2/3 cups of granulated or icing sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • One cup of shaved almonds
  • Half a cup of almond extract
  • Pinch of salt

For frosting

  • 2 ounces if chocolate
  • Rum one tablespoon
  • The remaining 6 tablespoon of butter
  • Almond shaving to garnish

Method

  1. Preheat the oven. The oven must be warmed up until three hundred and fifty degrees. Butter the cake pan and then flour it.
  2. Melt the chocolate and rum together over a double boiler
  3. In another big bowl mix the sugar and butter until they are pale. Once they are pale yellow then add egg yolks. Blend well.
  4. In a separate bowl beat, the egg whites until its white and icing like.
  5. Mix the egg white, rum and chocolate mixture and the egg yolk mixture together. Use a wooden spatula to do that.
  6. While mixing gradually add the dry ingredients and mix with cut and fold technique
  7. Take the greased cake pan and transfer the mixture onto it. Put it inside the preheated oven twenty to twenty five minutes.  
  8. For frosting, mix the unsalted butter, icing sugar and bittersweet chocolate mixture together. Mix it generously until the icing is semi-solid in texture.

Bu this time you might know the rest of the steps. Use a spatula in order to smear the pasty icing over the body of the special birthday cake. Make sure to keep the temperature of the cake at room temperature before icing. In case you are wondering where to find online cake delivery in Secundrabad. You just have to type the latter and you would end up with a host of flourishing homemade bakers proving quality cakes at your doorstep. Customised according to your needs.