We constructed an experiment today: we saw some 8 O'Clock Mints (the "wafer thin mints" of Monty Python's Meaning of Life fame) in the grocery store, and decided to try making a chocolate cake with a hidden, wafer thin layer in the middle.
Unfortunately, for reasons which I won't go into, we ended up baking 4 layers, and making the cake tall --- since we used chocolate mousse as the filling between the layers (in addition to the mints) the cake had no structural integrity, combined with height: this led to it collapsing sideways. Still, I think that the concept was a success, and so long as we keep to just two layers in the future, and possibly replace the mousse by a ganache as well, we should have a winner on our hands.
Yours, freshly minted,
N.
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Yum, that sounds like a really great cake (though I've never tried the mints) of course, at my house, we haven't recovered from Christmas yet & are out of both baking chocolate & cocoa powder currently!
Michele sent me to become inspired by your baking ideas!
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