Passover Birthday
I have to make a birthday cake for my son and his wife on Passover. I make alot of really good baked items, but aside from a flourless chocolate cake, or cheesecake, any good yellowcake recipes out there? Any other suggestions?
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8 Comments:
Many of the cakes (tortes) in the Viennese tradition are leavened only with egg whites (if they require leavening at all - many do not, and are simply fabulous but of course they are not like our "birthday cakes" in style).
A layered nusstorte would be the closest thing to our style birthday cake, and to my taste it is one thousand percent better in almost every way.
In a brief internet search I did not find any recipes for a layered filled nusstorte, but do have in front of me Rick Rodgers "Kaffeehaus" which has an excellent recipe for Walnut Torte with Walnut-Custard Buttercream.
The recipe that follows it would also be rather birthday-ish: Strawberry Cream Torte. The Viennese sponge cakes used as base are very pure and essential - eggs, again, used as leavening.
If either of these ideas appeals to you and you can not find something like them by searching the web, I'll revise and post one later if you wish. :)
Karen Resta at 8:33AM on 04/14/08
Smitten Kitchen has a fabulous looking layered cake that would make a swell birthday cake recipe. I was considering making it for my son's 5th birthday which also falls on Passover.
http://smittenkitchen.com/2007/03/the-best-chocolate-cake-expletive-free/
izzy's mama at 9:29AM on 04/14/08
I have the best suggestion so far.
Wait until Passover's over to celebrate.
RichardCrystal at 10:34AM on 04/14/08
In the past, I've made a chocolate-raspberry ganache tart with an almond macaroon crust. It isn't cake-like, but it's so good, no one will miss cake at all. The recipe was similar to this one:
http://www.jewishfood-list.com/recipes/pie/almmacrasptart01.html
juliec at 10:42AM on 04/14/08
Check out this, this looks like a good yellow cake option:
http://www.dianasdesserts.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/recipes.recipeListing/filter/dianas/recipeID/1733/Recipe.cfm
karen r at 2:15PM on 04/14/08
I ordinarily don't use cake mixes -- except on Passover. If I were you, I'd get a couple boxes of yellow cake mix (i.e. Manichevitz; Streit's) and add in some fresh flavors, such as grated orange zest, vanilla bean, liquors. And if you add oil and eggs to the mix, it's "semi-home made" (as perhaps Sandra Lee might say). For frosting, you could use whipped cream, ganache, 7-minute type, or even doctor up an already prepared frosting mix.
SavtaShayna at 5:07PM on 04/14/08
the hungarian hazelnut torte in the new york times passover cookbook is really great. i've made it a few times.
cybercita at 10:41PM on 04/15/08
This isn't yellow cake, but....it's the best chocolate cake for Passover EVER. It has sweet potatoes instead of flour and it's so moist and creamy and chocolately: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/109115.
Hillary
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Chew on That at 10:26AM on 04/18/08