http://www.sweetnapa.com/2006/08/29/contemporary-cakes-wrap-up.html In LA, but Still Exploring Desserts Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:09:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.sweetnapa.com/2006/08/29/contemporary-cakes-wrap-up.html#comment-19967 The Coconut Bar May Have Just Gotten Even Cuter - Sweet Napa Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:15:54 +0000 http://www.sweetnapa.com/2006/08/29/contemporary-cakes-wrap-up.html#comment-19967 [...] Incidentally, I often think about my candy bars in the context of entremets cakes. I didn’t really enjoy making those in culinary school at the time due to the mousses and bavarians that never quite sparked my taste buds (largely due to their reliance on eggs and gelatin), but I valued them as studies in self-contained layered desserts. Each layer in an entremet cake has its own flavor and texture that must almost be balanced with every other layer, with additional consider of how thick each layer should be in proportion to the others and how they should be arranged. So, for this bar (whose shape happens to mimic a traditional frozen bombe), I really have to concentrate on getting it to come together in all the right proportions. [...] [...] Incidentally, I often think about my candy bars in the context of entremets cakes. I didn’t really enjoy making those in culinary school at the time due to the mousses and bavarians that never quite sparked my taste buds (largely due to their reliance on eggs and gelatin), but I valued them as studies in self-contained layered desserts. Each layer in an entremet cake has its own flavor and texture that must almost be balanced with every other layer, with additional consider of how thick each layer should be in proportion to the others and how they should be arranged. So, for this bar (whose shape happens to mimic a traditional frozen bombe), I really have to concentrate on getting it to come together in all the right proportions. [...]

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