Chocolate Ganache & Opera Cream Cake

I made a batch of opera cream for Easter and it didn’t quite set up the way it should. It was looser and wasn’t cooperating enough to coat in chocolate for candy. What to do? Turn it into cake filling! I used my recipe for Coconut Lightning Cake . To turn it into a chocolate cake add…

Pulling Sugar – Opera Cream Dreams

This post started out as an ode to my mixer and my gratuity for the labor saved by it’s electronic exertion. I spent several hours contemplating this when I first attempted homemade Opera Creams. But as I stood pulling sugar in my kitchen by hand, I thought about all of the people who may have…