The measure of it!
Asked on 15 May 2016 by Wendy
Hi Lindsey
It's me again! Two things both after the event as it was too late to ask you.
1. The recipe for the Austrian coffee and walnut cake states 7 fluid ounces, 200 mls fromage frais. Yet on the strawberry and vanilla pavlova it says 200g fromage frais. How come it is in two measures, I have only seen it in grams. I realise there isn't much difference in the two measures on small amounts like that, I was just wondering that's all.
2. The topping on the coffee and walnut cake says instant espresso powder, I thought I had instant coffee powder but didn't so had to use ground coffee instead and that didn't work as well as I had hoped. Could I have brewed some coffee thereby adding liquid to filling? With hindsight I should have left the coffee out.
Having said that we had a lovely barbecue although we had to eat indoors and my friends took half the cake home as there wasn't much pavlova left.
Love
Wendy x
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Hello Wendy,
At the time that the Austrian Coffee Cake was tested and published, fromage frais was sold in liquid units but the pavlova is a more recent version. The version of pavlova (Petits Monts Blancs) published at the same time that the Austrian Coffee Cake was published, was/is also in liquid units.
The weight of fromage frais is probably about 5% less than the volume so in this recipe the difference isn’t enough to worry about.
Unless Delia herself has updated a recipe, all the recipes here online are input exactly as published.
For the coffee cake and filling, freshly brewed coffee will be too wet and not strong enough. If you don’t have any instant coffee, you could make very, very strong fresh coffee and leave the ground coffee to infuse in the water overnight, then strain it so you can use much less liquid to get a good coffee flavour.
Sounds like you had a lovely day with the exception of the weather, but pavlovas do make perfect endings!
Best wishes
Lindsey x
Thank you Lindsey for your invaluable help. I think I've seen instant espresso powder so I shall be buying some but in case I imagined it I will make a note on the recipe of your suggestion
Wendy x