Birthday Pie
Something funky’s happening with last week’s pictures. I’ll reload them when I get home. [All set now. ]
What’s Casa Walsh without pictures?
Here’s the birthday cake I made for Elias on Saturday. I’d never made a Boston cream pie before. I followed a recipe from Nigella Lawson’s How to Be a Domestic Goddess. Last week I made her strawberry shortcake – the buiscuit/scone recipe is wonderful – so I had high hopes for this cake. The recipe makes too much ganache and not nearly enough pastry cream (I had to bolster it with whipped cream and blackberries – otherwise it wouldn’t have been much of a filling). The sponge cake was a bit too dense although nicely flavorful. And yes, the strawberries are organic. Aren’t they pretty?