In honor of the 100th anniversary of Julia Child's birth, I made her Reine de Saba (chocolate and almond cake) or as it's known at our house, the-best-cake-I-ever-had.
It's been so hot here that the mood for baking didn't strike until 9:00 pm--the earliest you could even consider turning on the oven. I frosted it with her Glacage au Chocolat, but because we were far too impatient to wait for the cake to cool (and it was already after 10:00 by that time) I over-cooled the icing and spread it on the hot cake. You can see it melted and ran down the sides and created a pretty cool ganache kind of vibe.
Making french cake at 9:30 at night seemed like a very New York/Julie and Julia thing to do!
(Thanks to Frances for the great photo.)
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