We also strongly recommend eating beforehand as you will take your cake home. Due to the technicality of this class, we highly recommend you have taken other baking classes before this one. A proper Opera Cake is a harmonious composition of satiating proportions incredulously delicate layers of almond sponge cake (known as Joconde in French) are doused in a concentrated coffee syrup, sandwiched between perfectly biting espresso cream and topped with chocolate ganache and glaze.

Many techniques learned during this class can be used for other pastry needs.

This is also an ideal cake for large parties, quantities can be easily multiplied to feed 50 people! Everyone will leave with 1 cake of each type, serving a total of 8 people. This cake will please anyone who tries it. The taste is just amazingly delicious! You will of course be using Belgian chocolate and gourmet coffee. The cake is consisting of layers of almond. It is made with layers of (orange) almond sponge cake soaked in coffee syrup (or Grand Marnier syrup), layered with ganache and coffee (or Grand Marnier) buttercream, and covered in a chocolate glaze. Opera Cake is a rich French Cake, that uses one of the most loved flavor combinations, chocolate and coffee. In this class, we will show you 2 versions of it: the classic Coffee Opera cake and a Grand Marnier version that is perfect for those who do not like coffee. This classic French Gourmet Cake is one of Blandine’s favorite.

The opera cake