more adventures in cakery
So, I’ve been pretty open about how I work for this company where you wear green aprons and serve delicious lattes. I love my job! It’s awesome.
Next week we are releasing a new product called VIA ready brew. It’s instant coffee, and totally delicoius. My problem with getting excited and selling it is the fact that I don’t drink brewed coffee. I’ve had a really hard time becoming excited for something that (I thought) had no applications to my life.
Like I say in that post, there is never an inappropriate time for cake. Lost your job? Eat some cake. Won an award? Eat some cake. Found a puppy? Eat some cake. Got a flu shot? Eat some cake.
But I digress.
Last week I did a quick twitter survey of whether I should combine VIA with a chocolate cake. My three responses were an overwhelming yes.
2 packs of VIA + 1/2 the batter in a chocolate cake mix.
= 1 pretty lookin’ cake.
The marbled effect really doesn’t make a difference in baking, except maybe make the coffee taste a little more potent. And really, the cake just tastes INCREDIBLY RICH. Not so much like coffee.
And here it is frosted, with coffee beans on top! I think that next time I will use chocolate covered coffee beans, and maybe use a little bit more instant coffee. It is SUPER delicious, though!
Overall verdict: awesome. You should try it!
Posted in extracurricular
September 25th, 2009 at 2:50 am
I am drooling. Seriously. Salivating over here.
September 26th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
fellow barista here!
so do you just put the packs in while mixing?
September 26th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
@Sal It’s pretty good! You should try it!
@Ashley. YES. Just mix them into the mix. What I did was seperate out 1/2 of the batter first, and then mix 2 VIA’s into the other half in the mixer. You might want to use a little bit more coffee, but mine turned out great!