Milk Street Digital Class: Bake a Better Birthday Cake with Rose Levy Beranbaum
About this Pre-Recorded Class: What’s on the Menu: Deep Chocolate Passion Layer Cake Milk Chocolate Ganache Syrup Classic Ganache (in the food processor!) Happy birthday to Rose Levy Beranbaum, the author of the transformative book “The Cake Bible,” which celebrates its 35th anniversary in 2025. Join Rose—and her husband Woody—at this pre-recorded livestream class where she teaches you to make the cake she’d choose above all others for her own birthday—and which will become your go-to, too.. With Rose as your guide, you’ll bake an extraordinary layered chocolate chiffon cake that she describes as “sheer magic.” You’ll learn why it’s worth your while to weigh egg yolks and whites for this tender cake, come to appreciate why Rose prepares her cake pans in a very particular way and get a primer on bleached vs unbleached flours. We double down on chocolate flavors by soaking the cakes in homemade chocolate syrup, then frosting them with a dark chocolate ganache that you make in the foo