ROSE’S heavenly CAKES: Devil’s Food Cake with Midnight Ganache (page 99) comes from star chef Joanne Chang!  buy Joanne’s first book here.  read what Rose says about Joanne here. with Joanne’s permission, i am posting the first pages of her book.  what an inspiration! [ click on each picture to read in full size ]

one of my students failed ROSE’S heavenly CAKES: Devil’s Food Cake with Midnight Ganache (page 99).  the ganache was amazing!  the assembly a decoration beautiful. but the cake turned out dry.  all steps were followed accurately, except the flour was measured with cups. here is my cry to Rose: “this is my friend’s Craig 6th [...]

hector’s 6″ take on ROSE’S heavenly CAKES: Devil’s Food Cake with Midnight Ganache (page 99).

hector’s 6″ take on ROSE’S heavenly CAKES: Devil’s Food Cake with Midnight Ganache (page 99). this time, i followed the recipe as written, including all ingredients.

what do you think happens on ROSE’S heavenly CAKES: Devil’s Food Cake with Midnight Ganache (page 99)? when caramel is done beautifully and then incorporated to the ganache?

what do you think happens on ROSE’S heavenly CAKES: Devil’s Food Cake with Midnight Ganache (page 99)?  the cake contains 99% cacao chocolate, cocoa powder, creme fraiche, and light brown sugar from Mauritius!