The Infamous Opera Cake
I finally did it! After months of dithering the time was right for this particular adventure. Last week I really wanted a special tasty treat, but I also needed to keep myself focused and busy. So I decided to embark on the baking of the opera cake. And let me tell you it kept me busy all afternoon. I started around 2pm and finished around 6pm - and that, even though I left out a step (not sure the chocolate layer on the bottom side of the cake is a necessity). I'll give you a little flavour of the work involved. The first bit was the sponge. Despite requiring beating egg whites and some advanced mathematics to split the mixture into equal parts, it wasn't too hard. But I had to bake the three layers separately as I only have one cake tin of that size. Which invariably lead to me forgetting I had just got the cake tin out of the oven when I picked it up to get the next batch of dough in...luckily I only burned the one finger! And despite all of that, the ...