Large-scale production

Today, we made enormous pans of Opera Cake and Baked Alaska.

Our Opera Cake turned out so pretty, and delicious, too! We only used 6 layers, instead of the traditional 7, because it will be cut into very small portions to be served at graduation. Last year, some of the portions were a little top-heavy, so we made the cakes shorter. I don't imagine our guests will count the layers, will they?

Here's the cross-section of the Opera Cake, before the ganache was poured on.

The Baked Alaska was beautiful. I'm not a huge fan of Italian meringue. It's just a little too gooey and goopy for my taste. But still, this was pretty darn tasty. It had chocolate, vanilla and strawberry ice cream, and we brushed the cake layers with citrus syrup.

Here's a picture of the cake in progress, just to show the layers of ice cream.