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Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Recipe Book Recipe Reviews => Topic started by: Kimmyh on April 14, 2013, 01:26:39 pm
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Made this for hubby's 40th birthday. Used a 23cm round springform tin and added white chocolate tiles around the outside to disquise my layers ;) This is a lovely slice that I enjoyed. The instructions were flawless and easy to follow. So much simpler than the original 8 layers!! Being a Zumbo tragic, I am pleased I tackled this. However it didn't blow our socks off and given the effort required to make it, will probably not make again. There are just too many other recipes out there I want to try and not enough special occasions for them (and most of them are from Tenina's cookbooks!). If you do have a go, be quick with the final glaze layer. It sets really quick and will not allow you to attempt to neaten it, no matter how hard you try. Thanks Tenina for channelling my inner Zumbo :D
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Congratulations for even trying Kimmy.
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You clever girl,well done :-* :-*
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looks great kimmy a job well done xxx
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Looks fantastic Kimmy, great job :)
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A spectacular effort, Kimmy!! Well done!! :D :D
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Amazing Kimmy, well done!!
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Great job kimmy well done.
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Hats off to you Kimmy for being the first to tackle this, and for doing it so well. Looks really yummy:)
Hope your DH had a great birthday
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Looks fabulous Kimmy. :D
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Looks amazing Kimmy, Well done ;D
Marie
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Thank you girls for the lovely comments :)
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Well done Kimmy looks great!
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Fabulous. What a big effort.
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Thanks for sharing your success! My SIL and I are going to have a go at this recipe for a special occasion - soon :)
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What a great job Kimmy! It looks fantastic! :)
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WOW, looks incredible…It is a fiddle, but you did well!
;)
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Looks great Kimmyh looks ways too tricky for my level of cooking (and patience) skills!
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My SIL and I made an attempt at this over the past few days.
We didn't have the cake glaze or titanium dioxide (because we just decided to make it now kind of thing). The vanilla almond crunch layer was kinda of dry and crumbly. Will try it again with all the right ingredients :)
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We may not have had all the right ingredients - but it tasted great :). Ros and I did not really enjoy making the caramel for the almond praline paste though! There was a lot of burnt sugar involved.
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It looks nice girls, must have been fun working on it together.
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It was JD. We had a cooking day to start with - 2 TM's and 4 bowls in the kitchen :) Of course we didn't start the thriller until late in the afternoon - hence the 3 days it took :D
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Well done girls. Looks good to me. What fun to Thermomix together.
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Congrats girls,it looks great :)
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I have been wanting to try this recipe for ages and finally gave it a go over the weekend. I really enjoyed the challenge of attempting something this difficult and was reasonably happy with the end result.
Firstly some tips -
Definitely start this recipe a couple of days in advance. I started on the Friday morning (to serve on a Sunday night). If you have no other interruptions/commitments you could get away with starting the day before but it is not the kind of recipe you can just decide to make on the spur of the moment.
The Titanium Dioxide I got from The Melbourne Food Ingredient Depot - their website address has changed from the one in book. It is now - https://www.melbournefooddepot.com/
The Cake Glaze I bought from Peppercorn Deli in Keysborough (Melbourne) through Ebay. The seller's username is auvicpeter
The Almond Oil I got from Thomas Dux although I believe it is also sold in some health food shops.
Definitely use a shallow pan for the Almond Praline Paste. I made the mistake of using a small deep pan. This means the sugar on the outside starts to burn before the sugar in the middle even starts to melt. Somehow I was able to save it but it took a lot of effort. Learnt my lesson on that one! You will also be left with quite a lot of Almond Praline Paste left over.
With the Vanilla Almond Crunch, the final mix in Step 6 was not long enough for me. I had to do it a couple more times and then use a soft spatula to flatten the ingredients a bit more so they were evenly crushed.
As has been mentioned the Vanilla Glaze is very difficult to work with. I felt if there had just been slightly more of the glaze then it would have spread evenly by itself as I poured it but there just wasn't quite enough. I was able to use a soft spatula to get it pushed out into all of the edges of the pan but after that it was too late and the top ended up looking quite uneven. It didn't really matter though as you couldn't tell once it had been cut into slices. I served it with a Berry Coulis which worked well.
So would I make this again? Probably not. Whilst I enjoyed the taste, I have made other desserts that I have enjoyed more than this one (such as the Salted Caramel Ice Cream Torte).
Upon cutting, I found the top two layers separated from the bottom two very easily so it was very difficult to eat a mouthful with all four layers in it at the same time. Also the Dacquoise sets very hard and was a real challenge to cut through. Of course it is also a very expensive and time consuming recipe to make.
I highly recommend anyone looking for a challenge to give it a go though. The recipe is easy to follow and all of the steps are achievable if you allow enough time and are well prepared. As Kimmy mentioned though there are just too many other recipes I want to try which would mean I'd be unlikely to make this one again in a hurry.
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Well asha it looks lovely, and now you can look at the recipe in the book knowing that you've made it. Knowing how long it takes to make it I don't think that I will, but I'm quite happy to taste test at the drop of a hat
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Asha well done on achieving something with that degree of difficulty. Thanks also for your review.
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A great review of the recipe asha.Lovely photo of your slice.
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Congratulations on both the end product and great review Asha.
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Superb job, Asha!
Guess I'm not making this cos I'm not looking for more challenges at the moment. Hehehe
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Lovely asha. Well done and great review. It feels good to have a challenge. What's your next one?
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Thanks Kimmyh!
I haven't decided on the next challenge yet. I have a daughter about to start school for the first time tomorrow so the next few recipes I try will probably be lunchbox friendly treats of some sort. I converted a recipe for Apple & Cinnamon Muffins before from an old PMWU Cookbook I have and they seem to have worked ok.
Have also been playing around heaps with the Ice Cream Maker I got a couple of months ago and trying as many ice cream, sorbet, gelato recipes as I can without eating too much in one go!
I've been looking forward to giving some of the dessert recipes in In The Mix 1 & 2 a go so I think that's what I might do next.
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Snap asha. I love my old PMWU cookbook and my youngest is starting school for the first time tomorrow too. So I know exactly where you are coming from. Enjoy the time xox
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It looks lovely Asha, my slice of choice, if you wouldn't mind sending me one? (Or three?) xx