Cake Proposal: White Chocolate Cake
July 19th, 2008 | by fish |I came up with this idea whilst at a friends house a while ago.
Chocolate sponges are all well and good, but what about white chocolate sponges? After pondering if this was even remotely possible, I have a few ideas.
To start off with, make a normal sponge (Victoria Sponge sort of thing), but swap the butter with cocoa butter. This stuff is kinda hard to find (well, for cooking purposes anyway, I’m not putting body lotion in a cake), but I’ve found an online shop that sells it. EDIT: Ah, coconut butter. Oh well, I best keep looking! EDIT2: Ah, found another one. But £16.99 for 500g? Blimey.
To back up the chocolate flavouring, I’d put in extra vanilla, possibly even some vanilla pods too. To make sure the cake is quite dense, I’d further grind the sugar to make it extra fine. The sugar would need to be white, of course. Perhaps add a little cream to the eggs before beating them into the mixture.
I suppose there’s only one real way to find out if it’ll work!
