Chilli oil

Scallions

Cheese

Sesame seeds

Sesame oil

Onion powder

I finished the cake and I fucking hated it. The first mistake was thinking I could wing the frosting. My own hubris. Online I heard that it's good to freeze the cakes. So I put the two cake layers in the freezer. After spending almost 24 hours in the freezer, I took it out and put a big fat dollop of raspberry filling in the center. That was fine. But it went all downhill once the frosting came out. The chocolate ganache wouldn't stop dripping and sliding off of the cake. I thought it must have been too thin. So I made the frosting thicker with powdered sugar and butter. That only resulted in the edges of the cake crumbling and clumping with the frosting.

I ended up going on Reddit to figure out what I was fucking up about this. A Hail Mary you could call it. It was the temperature of the cake and the frosting. It was so obvious. Not to me though I guess. So instead of giving up I put it back in the freezer to revisit this chocolate monstrosity the next day. So I let a new batch of frosting sit out for a while before bringing out the cake to frost. And it went on almost perfectly. It had already started falling apart from my past mistakes and chocolate cake is not forgiving so I did have to fill in the gaps with frosting- not a big deal. And finally I was able to start decorating the cake. Not exactly what I envisioned but it was one of my better looking cakes.

The taste/flavour was very rich and decadent. And maybe it didn't help that i was constantly tasting the cake and the frosting and the raspberry filling but the cake felt so underwhelming all put together. I think I was just sick of chocolate at that point. And I probably wont be making this again anytime soon. Recipes are attached :)

Raspberry filling

Coca-Cola inspired cake????

Raspberry curd/filling for a chocolate cake. I used this recipe to make it.

I ended up using tapioca starch instead of cornstarch which seemed to work just as well In getting it to thicken up. And it’s only gotten thicker since I’ve put it away in the fridge, literally the exact consistency I was going for- love it when things go my way.

And for some reason I felt deep deep down in my heart that this raspberry filling needed vanilla which I also added and just basically eyeballed.

Third time making cinnamon rolls and this was my first time using my starter!!!! Thank you Tara Lynn they were a big hit.