Poppycock December/January 2014-15 | Page 12

From the uranium cake sprang a myriad of styles and recipes. From birthdays to weddings, anniversaries to whatever cake appropriate event you’re celebrating, the ladies at Palace deliver cake your grandma would have made. Home bakers, and people like myself who look at patisserie arts as something akin to magic, are making two cardinal mistakes that had lead to the box cake debacles pushed upon housewives in the past: time is no measure for baking, weight is the only way to measure ingredients. No two ovens are the same, and no two cups of flower are the same. The science meets art in a convection oven. Your ingredients are precise, your recipes are followed to the letter, but it takes an eye, a feel, and a good stab of the knife in some cases, to