Sorry this post is a day late, but I didn't fully complete the challenge until this morning.
So, when I watched Bake Off last week I was filled with dread at the prospect of attempting this bake. So many things could go wrong. I think my heart was in my mouth when they had to slice the sponge in half, let alone attempt making the rest of it!
Anyway, I bravely soldiered on and as you will see, I don't think my first attempt is actually half bad. First step was to bake the sponge. I was very pleased with my effort, and even took a photo to show you.
Then came the tricky slicing in half and constructing the cake. Slicing was ok, but then my sponge did end up getting stuck to the wire cooling rack so not all layers were perfect. But hey, you can't see it all. Next putting all the layers together was quite easy, just needed to guesstimate how much of each ingredient to use per layer - which consisted of half a tonne of mascarpone, the coffee and brandy mix and grated chocolate.
Here's the result.
And here's what my kitchen looked like after all that effort.
Next up was the chill, then the chocolate decoration. I had a problem with creating the chocolate decoration as I'm lacking in a proper chocolate thermometer, so improvised by using a meat thermometer. Even still I think I was impatatient and didn't wait until the chocolate was quite cool enough before I started piping pretty shapes. Which resulted in only a few good designs, which didn't end up nice and shiny.
But as a first attempt I'm pleased, and both my husband and an independent taste taster who happened to be visiting today thought it was tasty.
So final results...taa daa! If you'd like to try it out for yourself here's the recipe: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/tiramisu_cake_13686
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