The February 2009 challenge is hosted by Wendy of WMPE's blog and Dharm of Dad ~ Baker & Chef. We have chosen a Chocolate Valentino cake by Chef Wan; a Vanilla Ice Cream recipe from Dharm and a Vanilla Ice Cream recipe from Wendy as the challenge.
This challenge was somewhat easy to make, but I was not too happy with the results. The cake had an almost brownie texture which was GREAT, but it had deep cracks that made it look...not very apetizing... hence I covered it with some cherries.
Also I made it with semi-sweet chocolate and it was a little too strong for me... next time I do it (and I will!) I'll use 50% semi-sweet and 50% milk chocolate. I also ate the cake without the ice-cream so that might have made the difference... maybe with ice-cream it would taste better since the sweetness of the ice-cream will make up for the strength of the chocolate flavor??
That's all for now, but hopefully I'll be posting more detailed explanations next time!
