Peach and Rosemary Pavlova #CakeSliceBakers
We love a good pavlova in our house, and one that's topped with rosemary-flavored peaches sounded ideal for a hot summer day. My pavlova did not come out as delicate and easy to cut as Benjamina Ebuehi's in her cookbook A New Way to Cake . Mine was as tall as a traditional layer cake and full of whipped cream and peaches. I really need to learn to repress the urge to use all of the components when I make a cake. It would have come together better with half the amount of whipped cream. Construction issues aside, how did it taste? My family loved it, but I found the meringue layers to be too sweet. I think it would have been a better balance of flavors with half the amount of sugar in the meringue, and then maybe a little bit of that sugar added into the whipped cream.. The rosemary definitely added to the entire composition and would be something I would try again. Each month The Cake Slice Bakers are offered a selection of cakes from the current book we