The salted caramel cream cheese frosting was toothachingly sweet. (Less icing sugar?) Not enough salt. Too soft to hold the cake on top. Which had already collapsed. Then slid some more. While the frosting (and ganache) oozed. And the popcorn went soft quickly when mixed with the caramel sauce.
When I chilled the remaining frosting it was much firmer. (The leftovers sandwiched together chocolate bikkies.) Next time I will chill it before spreading on the bottom cake. Next time I will make the sturdier tried and tested ultimate chocolate cake. Next time I might try this caramel popcorn.
So what is it? A cake fail? A cake save? Just pure delicious decadence?
More attempts at fancy cakes on Green Gourmet Giraffe:
Butterscotch layer cake
Chocolate cake decorated with strawberries and music
Ginger fluff sponge (gf)
Nigella's Nutella cake (gf)
Ultimate chocolate cake with green ombre frosting
Vegan Victoria Sponge Cake (v)
Chocolate Caramel Cake inspired by: Miss I-Hua and The Boy, Sweetapolita, Munchies and Munchkins
Salted caramel cream cheese frosting
From Miss I-Hua and The Boy
- 175g cream cheese
- 50g softened butter
- 300g icing sugar
- 100g of salted caramel sauce
Beat together cream cheese and butter until creamy. Gradually beat in icing sugar. Beat in the caramel sauce. I found it quite soft when done and easier to handle once chilled in the fridge.
On the Stereo:
High Violet: The National
how divine!! Love the caramel popcorn addition :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Lisa - the popcorn looks great but I wanted it crunchier
Deletemany happy birthday wishes Johanna, you certainly had a memorable cake! I bet it tasted great. I don't mind cake fails because then you just heat a messy slice and serve with icecream and you get instant pudding :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Faye - yes memorable indeed - shame I missed my chance to warm it up and eat it as pudding - sounds like wise words :-)
DeleteHappy, Happy Birthday, Johanna!!! I think your cake is pure delicious decadence!
ReplyDeleteI often wonder about failed blogger recipes. Kudos to you for sharing the prettiness goodness and the not so prettiness but yumminess goodness:)
I most certainly love the premise of this cake, the salted caramel cream cheese frosting AND that popcorn!!! What a GREAT idea...
Thank you so much for sharing, Johanna...
Thanks Louise - yes very decadent - I got that right :-) And yes a great idea - glad to let you see when great ideas collapse :-)
DeleteI'm so glad you shared this post and the 'good side' looks amazing so it highlights how easily one can deceive with photography if you're selective about what you show! What a shame about the collapse after all your efforts - and for your own birthday too! - but at least it tasted good.
ReplyDeleteHappy belated birthday as well :-)
Thanks Kari - it does show that the camera can lie - I was disappointed when it collapsed but then moved on which is the great thing about food! At least you can still eat it :-)
DeleteBloggging has indeed made us vain.
ReplyDeleteSometimes its all about the taste. I am still pleased you mananged to capture its best side (and show us the collapsed side) too such honestly.
You so sneaky, let us know right towards the end that this is YOUR Birthday cake. Happy Belated wishes my lovely blogger friend, I am sure we would have been good friends if we had met in real life too x
By the way did you see my recent rice cake fail? In fact I made another dish that wa a fail, but could not share that as it totally stuck to the pan, we at it still as it tasted fab.
Thanks Shaheen - Blogging does breed vanity - isn't it ironic you could share the rice cake that was a fail but looked good but not the one that tasted good but looked a mess. Often I set aside ones I love but don't have good photos of for another post when I have time to repeat them but sometimes they just never get made again and are buried. So sad!
DeleteHappy Birthday Johanna! Haha you slip that in quite late didn't you? ;) I wonder what happened with the cake? What did you change about it? I know that you don't like eggs so was it aqua faba'ing it?
ReplyDeleteThanks Lorraine - I think I would have been less annoyed if it was an aquafaba cake because at least they always feel like an experiment - this was one that promised to be a tried and tested from someone else.
DeleteSounds delicious! I love your honesty :-) Blogging has made me super vain about my pictures. There are many things that don't make it on any more because the photos are too bad. Though I wasn't always so picky...the photos in my early days of blogging are awful...I cringe when I see them. Still it encourages me how far I've come in such a short time! :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks Eb - Thankfully my photos have improved from my early days of blogging but yes it does show progress. And if we are kinder to ourselves blogging has helped us learn to take better photos I daresay!
DeleteI was like you a couple of weeks ago. I made a cake that looked less than perfect, and I just didn't put it in my blog. I'm glad you showed us the cake that you made, because I think it's just gorgeous :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Cathleen - the cake did have its gorgeous side - but was a bit jeckyl and hyde :-) I would love to see your less than perfect cake.
DeleteHappy birthday! I think the cake sounds snd looks delicious.
ReplyDeleteThanks Cakelaw - I really enjoyed eating it so not all bad!
DeleteHappy Birthday Johanna. Who cares what it looks like? It sounds amazing and looks very very delicious. We all get cake fails but I love that you have shared it anyway...... it's life!
ReplyDeleteThanks Kate - we do all have cake fails but the internet is such a brutal place that I think it often does not feel safe to share which is such a shame as you are right - it is life!
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