

If you have any glaze left, you can use it for this purpose and make your cake look as if straight from a classic French bakery! It is worth knowing that to provide the Opera Cake with an authentic finishing touch, some people pipe the word "Opera" at the top of each piece.

It tastes particularly great withĬouverture chocolate, made from chocolate produced in a small artisan chocolate factory in Zurich. It is built of six layers, including light almond sponge cake, coffee buttercream, and dark chocolate ganache, topped with a chocolate glaze. However, most opera cake lovers agree on one thing - the best place to have it is at Dalloyau, a Paris-based food com, where it is called L'Opera so as to honor the Paris Opera.Įven though preparing an opera cake takes some time, its delicious taste is really worth it. According to some culinary historians, this recipe was created in the 1890s, and others say it first appeared in a Paris shop in the mid-20th century. It is still debatable who was the inventor of the original opera cake recipe.
