Portal Cake (yes I am a nerd)
As I mentioned the other day, playing Portal left me with a desire to bake a cake. Given the game's contents and my general disposition, this should come as a surprise to absolutely no one. And since my cake-baking urge resulted from playing the game, I thought it might be fun to try and make the cake in the game. Not the one from the bizarre "recipe" you can see on some of the screens and hear from the third piece of GLaDOS, but trying to make it look like the cake in the game. Ben told me that the cake in the game was modeled on a black forest cake from a Chinese bakery out in Redmond, and showed me a picture. Knowing that it was a Chinese-style cake made me more interested in trying it, because I've been wanting to make a Chinese-style sponge cake with whipped cream frosting for a while. So I found a sponge cake recipe online, and a stabilized whipped cream recipe, and a black forest cake recipe, and I sort of cobbled something together.
The cake!
A single slice:
So how was it? Pretty good. The sponge needed more simple syrup, and the syrup should have been made with straight kirsch and sugar, not watered-down kirsch and sugar. The whipped cream could have been sweeter, and also needed a little more gelatin to stabilize it. But overall it was pretty tasty, and I will happily make it again, especially if someone wants to try it.
The cake!
A single slice:
So how was it? Pretty good. The sponge needed more simple syrup, and the syrup should have been made with straight kirsch and sugar, not watered-down kirsch and sugar. The whipped cream could have been sweeter, and also needed a little more gelatin to stabilize it. But overall it was pretty tasty, and I will happily make it again, especially if someone wants to try it.