Tuesdays with Dorie: Devil’s Food White-Out Cake
February 17, 2009 at 2:19 am | Posted in cakes & tortes, cupcakes, groups, sweet things, tuesdays with dorie | 49 Comments
Oh, I bet a lot of TWDers have been waiting a long time for this one, and we have Stephanie of Confessions of a City Eater to thank for finally choosing it! Actually, I feel a twinge of guilt posting this picture. It’s almost as if, by turning Dorie’s cover cake into cupcakes, I haven’t quite done her recipe justice. Please forgive me…it’s just that I’ve been doing a lot of layer cakes with The Cake Slice group lately.
Geez Louise, I love devil’s food cake. I mean, really…it’s so chocolaty, and that moist but dense thing it has going on…it’s just the best type of chocolate cake (by the way, I like it chilled). This particular devil’s food recipe is extra-special because it has little chopped chocolate bits throughout. I made a half recipe and got ten cupcakes. I actually only turned six of them into White-Outs. The others went, unfrosted but nicely wrapped, into the freezer, and later (along with some leftover cream cheese frosting you’ll read about in a few days) became Valentine’s cupcakes.
The White-Out Cake is Dorie’s spin on the classic Brooklyn blackout cake, but here the filling/frosting is homemade marshmallow Fluff. Yay, Fluff! I even cut a hole out of the center of each cupcake and filled it with extra marshmallow meringue. You know where I was going with that, right? I reserved the little plugs of cake for my crumbs. One note about the frosting: I reduced the cream of tartar in the recipe. A friend had made this cake about a month ago, and told me she thought the frosting had a slightly metallic taste…the large amount of CoT was the only culprit I could think of.
So good…it was so good. Make it yourself and see– the recipe, of course, is in Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan, but she also has it here on NPR’s site. Don’t forget to read Stephanie’s post and check out the TWD Blogroll to see what everyone else came up with!
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Glad you enjoyed this cake. I was tempted to do cupcakes too- so much more convenient than a layer cake! I haven’t tried devil’s food cake chilled before so i’ll give it a go.
Comment by Bria— February 17, 2009 #
Cupckaes are always good!! I already regret not making this recipe, but I’m pretty sure I will be making it in the near future!
Comment by Marthe— February 17, 2009 #
trop mignon en petite portion 🙂
Comment by isabelle— February 17, 2009 #
What a sweet idea, cupcakes! Im glad you enjoyed them!
Comment by Michelle— February 17, 2009 #
Your cupcake is adorable! I loved this cake too, thought it was just wonderful! 🙂
Comment by Amanda— February 17, 2009 #
Such a chic creation!!
Comment by VeggieGirl— February 17, 2009 #
What adorable cupcakes – perfect little Hostess lookalikes 🙂 Devil’s food cake really is fabulous, isn’t it?
Comment by Caitlin— February 17, 2009 #
Your cupcakes look so cute! Great job.
I think the COT was what killed my frosting 😦
Comment by Danielle— February 17, 2009 #
I thought about making only cupcakes too, so I comprised and made both the cake and cupcakes. I loved this recipe.
Comment by Stephanie— February 17, 2009 #
I’m glad you liked this one! Your cupcake is so cute!
Comment by Leslie— February 17, 2009 #
Cute cupcake! We’ll forgive you this time, but only if you share your other layer cakes with the class.
Comment by Jules— February 17, 2009 #
I agree…the cream of tartar was a bit much, but after a day, it evens out.
Your wee cakes look great
Comment by chocolatechic— February 17, 2009 #
Your cupcakes look great!! The perfect-sized treat.
Comment by Elyse— February 17, 2009 #
Interesting! I thought that the frosting had an odd flavor as well, but I thought that it was because there was a lot of vanilla! But you’re probably right, the cream of tartar could be the culprit! Your cupcake looks great, though!
How does one join the Cake Slice bakers? I’d love to join if they are accepting new members!
Comment by Teanna— February 17, 2009 #
I think your little cuppy cake looks awesome. What matters is that so far we all seemed to have loved the cake. Yum-me!
Having a giveaway on my blog, check it out if you have a sec.
Comment by Katrina— February 17, 2009 #
I definitely think Dorie wouldn’t mind you turning her cake into cupcakes – I bet she’d love it, actually! It looks great – very pretty!
Comment by Amy (Sing for your supper)— February 17, 2009 #
Love it.
Comment by Lindsey (Cafe Johnsonia)— February 17, 2009 #
What a fantastic idea – cupcakes with the frosting as the filling. I think I would have liked that a lot better. They look gorgeous too!
Comment by stephanie— February 17, 2009 #
Like you, I was a bit “caked out” this month. Smart idea to freeze some of the cupcakes…more to enjoy later on!
Comment by Linda— February 17, 2009 #
your cupcakes look so sweet! I thought the chocolate cake was really good, too – not as crazy about the frosting, but that’s just my own hangup. 😉
Comment by Robin— February 17, 2009 #
I loved this as well. It would make beautiful cupcakes!!
Comment by Tammy— February 17, 2009 #
What a cute cupcake! I know, I still have to make that coconut cake this week. I halved Dorie’s cake, maybe I’ll halve the CS one, too!
Comment by Jodie— February 17, 2009 #
Holy yum! That was a great idea to pipe some of the marshmallow goodness into the cupcakes! I’m going to have to make this recipe again to give that a try!
Comment by Amanda— February 17, 2009 #
What an adorable cupcake! My cake is done but is in the blogosphere somewhere – had some technical problems with Blogger.
Comment by hepeskin— February 17, 2009 #
Your cupcakes do Dorie’s cake full justice! They are beautiful. I am such a fan of this cake and the super fluffy frosting.
Comment by Carol Peterman— February 17, 2009 #
Wow, what a perfect, dark color! Those cupcakes look absolutely black tie and you shouldn’t feel bad at all for skipping the layer cake (although I’ll admit I did, a little!)
Comment by Anne— February 17, 2009 #
I love this creation!! 🙂
Comment by Jen— February 17, 2009 #
I SO wish I had time for TWD!! I’m stricken with jealousy every week! Your cupcake looks super YUM!
Comment by howtoeatacupcake— February 17, 2009 #
Oh, I think you did the recipe great justice…I love that photo…what a great idea. I also love the idea of putting extra frosting in the middle…you are so clever about these things! Thanks for the tip on cream of tartar…I will have to rethink that as I can so see where you could reduce it a bit. Great job…I think cupcakes are so pretty the way you have done them.
Comment by Kayte— February 17, 2009 #
Yum! Wow, looks great. Think that needs to get added to the list of “must makes”.
Comment by bakergirlcreations— February 17, 2009 #
Absolutely beautiful!! Love ’em!
Comment by foodlibrarian— February 17, 2009 #
Your cupcakes are so cute! Good thinking on stuffing the frosting inside! What a fun surprise. Yum!
Comment by Karen— February 17, 2009 #
this looks gorgeous, love the photo! i really wanted to make this before i left but ended up with no time. glad to know it came out so good, will definitely be trying it when i can!
Comment by mimi— February 18, 2009 #
These look great as cupcakes. It didn’t even occur to me to make CUPCAKES!
Comment by Courtney— February 18, 2009 #
That’s a creative twist to the recipe. Your cupcake looks really good!
Comment by Piggy— February 18, 2009 #
Beautiful cupcakes. Frosting on the inside yummm!
Comment by Leanne— February 18, 2009 #
I love your cupcake. It looks very delicious.
Comment by pinkstripes— February 18, 2009 #
Well, I think you did it justice nicely and just took it to a different level of cuteness. Those cupcakes look like they should be going to a black and white ball.
Comment by Holly— February 18, 2009 #
That picture gives me chills! I’m almost scared or something.
NAOmni
Comment by NAOmni— February 18, 2009 #
Love the cupcake with the surprise middle!!!
Comment by Peggy— February 18, 2009 #
I love the cupcake idea. Layer cakes are a lot of time and effort and they’re a lot harder to eat then cupcakes! Your cupcakes look delicious. I think Dorie would approve 🙂
Comment by Tracey— February 18, 2009 #
Mmmmmm, nom nom nom. This cake was surprisingly good. And cupcakes! Great idea.
Comment by Rebecca— February 18, 2009 #
Teanna–I’m not sure if The Cake Slice is taking new members, but Gigi at gigicakes.net leads up the group, so you could ask her. Thanks!
Comment by steph (whisk/spoon)— February 19, 2009 #
Little bites of Yummy! Looks good to me.
Comment by teaandscones— February 19, 2009 #
I love your photo!!
Comment by HoneyB— February 19, 2009 #
We found that the frosting was much better the second day — that weird taste was gone. Your cake looks great!
Comment by Lillian— February 21, 2009 #
lovly
Comment by latifa— February 22, 2009 #
The cupcake looks great! And what a great idea to till them with the marshmallow stuff.
Comment by Di— February 22, 2009 #
It looks fantastic! Good thing you reduced the cream of tartar. I tried the cake right after i finished icing it and there was a very strong metallic aftertaste. After chilling it overnight though, the taste was gone. Next time i make it i’ll definitely reduce the CoT though.
Comment by Farah— February 23, 2009 #