31st Aug 2010: The Opera (Joconde Biscuit)

The Opera Cake was made debut in France. The Joconde biscuit is also known as the almond sponge cake. It is said that the original Opera cake is no more than 2.5 cm of height. So if you just bought one from a cake shop and it's very thick - you'd know that its not original. 

The authenticity would be made of Joconde biscuit, chocolate ganache, coffee butter cream. In total of 6 layers - 3 layers of biscuit, 2 layers of coffee butter cream and one heavy load of ganache!

I seriously think my chocolate glaze slicing technique requires major improvement

The dark chocolate decoration