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I quite like cake, having learnt to make some in lockdown. However my tastes are simpler than the kind of huge and complicated confection in the picture. I would never have the patience. I do simple Victoria sponge cakes, lemon drizzle cake and occasionally choux pastry for sort of misshapen chocolate eclairs.A good cake is not just delicious food but is a work of art. Here is one of my favorites, gateau St-Honore.
St Honore is the patron saint of Bakers and pastry chefs.
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I quite like cake, having learnt to make some in lockdown. However my tastes are simpler than the kind of huge and complicated confection in the picture. I would never have the patience. I do simple Victoria sponge cakes, lemon drizzle cake and occasionally choux pastry for sort of misshapen chocolate eclairs.
One thing I have found is that if one makes a Victoria sponge with a whipped cream filling with chopped strawberries in it, contrary to what one might expect, it can be frozen in chunks and thawed out quite successfully. The pieces of strawberry go a bit soft and the juice from them tends to run into the cream, but actually that's fine, it almost tastes better that way. A tablespoon or two of kirsch drizzled into the the sponge also gives it a boost. So that's now what I make for my son on his birthday and we freeze whatever we can't eat in a couple of days.
I don't mind the occasional slice