The Polish Princess

Name: The Polish Princess
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 12 to 14
Ingredients: bittersweet chocolate; 70% cacao; warm water; eggs; 60% to 63% cacao; bittersweet chocolate; raisins; baking powder; bleached all-purpose flour; sugar; pastry buttercream base

Preparation info

Serves
12 to 14

Difficulty
Complex
Ready in
20 min

Appears in

The Baking Bible

By Rose Levy Beranbaum

Published 2014

About

This extraordinary cake is named for Ava Wilder-Zhan, the incomparable production editor of Rose’s Heavenly Cakes. Its original name in Polish was The Ambassador, and it is a contemporary, not a traditional cake. The cake came into popularity in the early 1990s, after the fall of communism when there was an influx of quality chocolate, alkalized cocoa, and raisins from abroad. When <