ABC’s of Caviar
For the most romantic meal of the year, Fox News’s Lilian Huang Woo gets tips from celebrity chef Daniel Boulud, a caviar expert and recipes for aphrodisiac cocktails. Listen here layer of filling and spread it evenly over the surface.
- Place the second cake layer upside down on top of the buttercream, removing any dome first, if necessary. Use the remaining buttercream to ice the exterior of the cake. Ice the sides and top smoothly if you’re planning to pipe a border on the edges. Ice rustically, swirling the buttercream with your spatula, if you prefer not to have a border.
- If you choose to make a border, reserve some of the buttercream and put it in a pastry bag with a star tip. Pipe a border around the top and bottom edges.
CHOOSING NAMES IS FUN, EVEN FOR FOOD
AMY: In the ’90s the Hunka Burnin’ Love Cake was named Voodoo Love Cake. It is a rich, dark, and compelling cake, as we imagined voodoo love might be. I left the bakery in 1996 to get on with my life. When I returned four years later, I was in the pastry kitchen baking when a voice bellowed over the intercom, “Can you make another 9-inch Hunka Burnin’ Love Cake?” I called to Patti, a longtime cake baker who was icing cakes that day, “Patti, can we make another 9-inch Hunka Burnin’ Love?” I laughed after the name rolled out of my mouth–it sounded pretty racy! I thought to myself, “We gotta change that name.”
The following day I said to Frank, “We gotta change the name of the chocolate cake. It’s really too explicit.” He laughed. Literally the month before I returned, they had run a contest to change the name from Voodoo Love. (I had totally forgotten the original name.) A customer had complained about the reference to voodoo, thinking that we were being disrespectful to the religion, so we renamed it. The name Hunka Burnin’ Love had won the contest! Needless to say, we never changed the name of the cake–and none of our customers have complained about it.
