A cake inspired by a 1980s
chocolate bar.
lpine Almond Cake takes all of the elements of a classic 80s chocolate bar and puts it into cake form! This is the cake that takes the flavors of vanilla and almond and turns them up to one hundred. A tender cake is layered with whipped white chocolate ganache for a recipe that may put your classic vanilla cake to shame.
Background:
For the longest time, white chocolate has had a bad reputation. Journals written back in the 1930s and 40s write with open skepticism about Swiss “snow-white chocolate” that was produced in Europe. And it’s safe to say that that skepticism of white chocolate is still thriving today. Before you make the claim that white chocolate isn’t real chocolate, it is made from cocoa butter which is still a part of the same bean and still categorized as chocolate, yet suspicions from previous centuries weren’t baseless. White chocolate of the past was anything but chocolate. Recipes for white chocolate were a confectionary concoction of powdered sugar, tapioca, and strange ingredients like Icelandic moss and Indian arrowroot. It was only after the creation of the Broma process, a technique of extracting the cocoa from the bean and separating it from the cocoa butter, do we see cocoa butter used to make white chocolate. While there were some white chocolate treats on the market, it was never a full chocolate bar and most were produced exclusively for the European market.
It wasn’t until the 1980s that this sort of white chocolate bar came to the US. Nestle released Alpine White, a chocolate bar that was completely made of white chocolate and studded with almonds. While it doesn’t sound revolutionary, it was quite a different chocolate bar than others that were on the shelves of stores. Combined with interesting and new artistic marketing, it set the chocolate bar apart from its competitors.
This cake pages homage to Nestle’s Alpine White chocolate bar in the best possible way. A tender delicate cake is layered with whipped ganache and coated with sliced almonds for a cake that’s on a whole other level.
How to make the cake batter:
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