I enjoy baking, and try to do something diferent from time to time…. The elongated rather then round cake always fascinated me…and I make them when I want to make an occasion festive and different. I also like the elongated cakes because they cut either in slices or one can cut them the traditional way without blinking an eye!! look at my pictures to see how it is done. And when they are on a plate ready to serve they all look like the slices that came from a round traditional cake…It is also fun changing flavors of cakes… Most of my cakes are a simple Vanilla cake…but what I fill the cake with is almost always different…It is not just Vanilla or Chocolate fillings…Because, after all a “sandvich” is not a sandvich with just two slices of bread! A sandwich needs to have a filling between the slices of bread to be called a “Sandwhich.”
Did you know the story why it is called a “Sandwhich? Acording to a story…Lord Sandwhich could not stay for the gathering at a fancy dinner due to another obligation…he needed to depart quickly. He asked the head cook in the kitchen to take two slices of bread and put a good amount of sliced meet between them…and to hand it to him that way. He took, this “meal” being his dinner…into his hand while already on his horse and sped away. This was the first time a meal had been served between two slices of bread….and since then it is call a “Sandwich.”
Therefore when I read this story…I thought why could I not make a rectangular or square cake? I Knew that rectangular cakes were available…because I was able to buy a rectangular cake pan…but I could not find a cake form that was elongated and did not have slanted sides…so, I baked my cakes in a cooky sheet with an inch high rim around it…and when baked I cut it into three pieces to have three long rectangular layers….which I stack when I fill them with jams, butter creams and sometimes I sprincle of brandy over the slices first before I fill them with the jam and buttercreams… To decorate these cakes I sometimes like to use Chocolate Truffles either homemade or Lindt Truffles. And I also like to fill these cakes not only with one cream…sometimes I use butter/Vanilla flavored creams and also chocolate butter creams… One can use various candies, or small cookies…like meringue covered little flowers or stars…or anything you find in your store’s candy section ….that will make your cake festive and special.
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Maja’s Viennese Kitchen
Maria Reisz Springer
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