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Chocs + Vanilla + Orange = Happiness

One of my business partners threw an order yesterday for some cakes she’ll bring to her Lola tomorrow. Pick up time was tonight. Her orders: 2 chiffon cakes and two fudge brownies. With less than 12 hours preparation (from morning to afternoon), it was a bit of a challenge. For one, though for a time a few years ago, I was making brownies almost every day, I haven’t made brownies in more than a year. My taste for cakes at the moment is geared towards dense pound cakes. As for the chiffon cake, well, I have only made chiffon cakes twice in the past, so this was certainly going to be a challenge.

Since I did not bring with me cake boxes from Manila, I was a bit worried how to pack the cakes. Thankfully, I found the only baker’s supply shop in Davao: Baker’s Best in Tionko St. Went there early today to buy the boxes. Got a bonus too, since the Callebaut Chipits (chocolate chips) and a few of Callebaut’s semi-sweet bars were on sale! Got them at only 30% the normal price! The expiration date of the stuffs on sale was January 2010, but I know that the goodies I’ll make with the chocs won’t even last till Christmas haha so yes, I was very elated! I thought, what a great send-off to a busy baking day.

Because my oven was pretty small, I had to bake the stuffs in batches. It took me the whole afternoon to bake all four cakes. Sigh. I’m counting the days till I get my hands on the big (well at least bigger than the normal, home ovens) oven.

For, the brownie I used the ever-reliable Baker’s One Bowl Brownie as my base recipe. I then concocted a white chocolate+whipped cream frosting which I drizzled over the brownies.

For the orange chiffon cake, I based my recipe loosely on The Joy of Baking recipe with some substitutions. For the frosting, I sealed the crumbs thinly with the leftover frosting from the brownies, then made a vanilla + reddi whip + milk frosting for the cake.

Here are the results: