help with cake, help with BBcode

Rainey · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 8:03 pm Post subject:

It sounds like brioche dough to me and with a tablespoon of sugar certainly wouldn't make a conventional cake. With a brioche dough you'll get a rich, airy bread with a golden color from the eggs.

I see from the link that the "cake" elements are coming from the custard filling and the caramel infusion.
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gingerpale · Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 1324

Thank you

Rainey · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:58 pm Post subject:

Yes, like soft bread, but bread, no less. This will not be the soft crumb that the name "cake" suggests but the firm structured crumb that gluten produces.

That isn't to say it won't make a fine dessert. Baba au rhum starts with brioche thats soaked in a rum syrup and summer pudding uses rich bread like brioche to hold up to the thorough soaking of berries and their juices.

If you make the Beehive Cake, let us know what you think of the recipe.
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