![]() You’ll also need to exercise patience with the gelatin itself, allowing it to cool enough that it doesn’t melt the ganache and destroy everything. Otherwise, the gelatin will infiltrate the cake and you’ll have a disaster on your hands. ![]() You’ll need to make sure you’ve gotten the chocolate ganache to the right consistency so that it seals the cake completely. ![]() First of all, you’ll need to have patience. I followed Kitchen Journal by Kalpana’s tutorial which was amazingly thorough and spot on.Ī couple of important considerations before you attempt this cake, though. When I first saw this cake going around the internet I immediately knew I had to try it. Who doesn’t dream of flying off to some distant South Pacific Island and lazing under a coconut tree? Well, errrr, me, but I would love to eat a cake that looks like one! You can watch me making and tasting the pie here: I also wanted to see if the effervescence in the soda would affect either the taste or consistency of the pie.įinally, I was curious to see if all that extra sugar would make this pie too sweet. Now because Sprite is a carbonated soft drink, I was very curious to see what a sprite pie tastes like - how much of that lemon-lime flavor would remain. So for this pie we’re going to be substituting Sprite for the water portion. These desperation pies, instead of using milk and eggs, call for water, sugar, butter, a little bit of vanilla and some flour. ![]() You can watch me making and tasting my gorgeously transparent raindrop cake below:Īnother viral sensation I recently tried my hand at was this Sprite pie popularized by on TikTok.Īt first I viewed this pie skeptically - after all, who pours sprite into a pie crust and expects to get a tasty pie? - but when I dug deeper I realized that this pie is just a variation on a water pie, or desperation pie that was common during the Great Depression and in wartime. I initially found the recipe for raindrop cake on Mosogourmet’s YouTube channel, but since that time it has gone viral on a few different well-known sites. Round, transparent, and jiggly, the raindrop cake delights and amuses more for its whimsicality than its actual taste. People would make special pilgrimages to the shop to experience this delicate “cake” firsthand since this dessert obviously wasn’t transportable. Raindrop cake, or mizu shingen mochi (水信玄餅) in Japanese, was originally created in 2014 by the Kinseiken Seika Company in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. All of them, however, are stunning and fun to make or try. Some are relatively easy to make, like the cloud bread or Sprite pie, while others like the island cake or the jiggly cake take a little more patience and skill. ![]() The following eleven recipes you really can make at home. The ones that go viral however, I often eye suspiciously at first, thinking to myself, “all right, it looks fantastic, but how does it taste?” Or “is that really possible?” Can you make a cheesecake that really jiggles like Santa’s belly? Or can you really make a potato chip that’s transparent? Sometimes you can harvest new recipe ideas right from your TikTok, Instagram, or Twitter feed. ![]()
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