This glaze has intrigued me since I borrowed Rose Levy Beranbaum’s newest book, “Rose’s Heavenly Cakes”, which received “Cookbook of The Year” award and was also the winner in the “Baking: Savory or Sweet” category at 2010 IACP Cookbook Awards. Very well deserved. I finally had the opportunity to make it for Sandra's birthday. I used this glaze to replace the chocolate glaze suggested in Dorie Greenspan's Chocolate Caramel Chestnut Cake from her book - Baking From My Home to Yours. I made the cake following the cake recipe and baked the cake in Wilton's Fanci-Fill Cake Pan. As suggested by Rose, the cake should have a Ganache Coating as the Glaze will show the slightest imperfection. I would have loved to coat my cake with Ganache but had instead coated with Chocolate Buttercream cos i ran out of heavy cream and had enough heavy cream only to make the filling - the Chocolate Caramel Ganache(i could only make 1/2 recipe)
The Lacquer Glaze was so very shiny (you can see my reflection on the cake) and went well with the cake making it so stunning. You might notice I left the top alone - I thought it was starkly beautiful but i can't say the same of the sides to my cake. I had to decorate the sides with sugarpaste flowers.
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