Caketastrophie! A Little Food Porn For You

My friend Molly made a cake the other day...

...which was more delicious than beautiful.

"A" for effort Molly! Thanks for letting me use your charming photo ; )

Without tooting my own horn too much, I would like to offer "Episode Four: Cakes" from the Flaming Chef's own cooking show "The Pleasure of Food" brought to you by Filmy Residue Productions.

For everyone who just wants to laugh, skip down and play "part 4" which contains all of our production bloopers. Come on, you know you want to...

I'll show you filling and finishing techniques for lemon cake, butter cake with chocolate icing, chocolate cake with mocha icing and chocolate cake with vanilla mousseline butter cream.

The whole show is 30 minutes long and broken down into 4 short, easy-to-digest segments.

Here's part 1:




Here's part 2:



Here's part 3:



Here's part 4 with all our delicious bloopers:



I hope you have enjoyed this glamorous foray into the marvelous world of...

...ME!

Tell a friend about the Flaming Chef. If we can get enough people on board, I can start my own country and implement my "Mandatory Pastry Policy."

(Special thanks to Molly and Filmy Residue Productions.)

Afternoon News 4/27/10

Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Oklahoma! legislators pass stupid, intrusive abortion law. Why don't you pass a law forcing women to purchase cute little shoes for the fetus while you're at it?

Alice Miller dies at 87. The original book title "The Drama of the Spoiled Little Narcissist," was nixed by editors.

New York's war on salt continues. Won't somebody please think of the children?

(The picture above is of four different kinds of cake I made for my cooking show "The Pleasure of Food." Lemon cake, butter cake with chocolate frosting, chocolate cake with mocha frosting and (up on a pedestal where it belongs) bittersweet chocolate cake with vanilla mousseline butter cream. With special thanks to Filmy Residue Productions.)

In honor of the latest infamous and annoying news about chocolate, here's my recipe for bittersweet chocolate cake. Adapted from "The Joy of Cooking."

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