David Tamarkin
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1,765 appearances
15 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 4d ago
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I want like a flower, a single layer flowerless chocolate cake, maybe with even like maybe doubling down on the chocolate or tripling down on the chocolate by adding like a shiny glaze. I just want like I don't know. I just want something very, very intense and very sleek is the word that comes to mind.
Right. Yeah. I just want to have a sugarless chocolate cake. It's just basically like solid coffee.
You did not say that with much conviction. No.
Absolutely. I think the birthday cake should be dictated by the birthday person. I also think it's 100 percent OK and even a flex for the birthday person to make their own birthday cake.
And I know that. Oh, no. I know this is this idea out there that the birthday cake is made with love from someone else. But if you make your own birthday cake, it's sort of like an appreciation for yourself. It's an act of love. self-love, which are words I don't even like hearing come out of my mouth. But it's an act. I don't know. I think it's a real act of just giving yourself what you want.
And I think that's something that people need more practice doing, like leaning into getting what you want and doing it for yourself. Sisters are doing it for themselves on their birthday. They're making their own birthday cake. I'm into it.
You'd rather have a bad birthday cake made for you than make a good one for yourself.
I respect that. I just want a good birthday cake. So if no one's around, if you can't bake for me, I'm just going to bake it myself. Luckily, I'm married to a man who does know how to bake. So we don't have that problem.
You know, I think you talked to some interesting people about this subject. I don't know if you got to this topic, but you've told a couple people who bake other people birthday cakes for a living.
I love both of these bakers. I have so much admiration for. I'm obsessed with Cheryl Day. And I've been watching Bronwyn Wyatt make cakes on Instagram for years and coveting them. So I can't wait to hear this conversation.
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Every day? Okay.
Oh, nice.
Back to the ad, we also have recipes. Try our classic birthday cake, which was our 2019 recipe of the year, or Cheryl Day's old-fashioned coconut cake, which I know, Jessica, is a cake that you love. And for you mixed bakers out there, we have plenty of those too. I love our chocolate cake mix. I make it all the time. And honestly, it makes me feel like every day is my birthday.
So make every day your birthday over at kingarthurbaking.com.
Well, I know our listeners have some burning questions about not burning their cakes. So let's go into Ask the Baker. For Ask the Baker, we want to hear from you. Maybe you have a baking question that's stumping you. If so, head to kingarthurbaking.com slash podcast to record a voice message. And we may end up using it on the show. That's kingarthurbaking.com slash podcast.
I'm going to let you take this one, Jessica.
Yeah. Let's hear from our next caller.
thanks bye oh i mean i understand why she's frustrated but chocolate pancakes sound good yeah but not when you're hoping for a cake not when you're hoping for a cake but it's just saying i might have to make those uh this weekend you know she checked her baking powder and that was a smart thing to do because the first culprit is the leavening so checking the powder is a smart thing to do and the fact that her baking powder is still alive still kicking makes me think that perhaps there's too much of it in this recipe or maybe she's
putting it in a little too generously. And I would recommend pulling back on that because what happens when you have too much leavening in the cake, no matter where it comes from, is you can get that cake to rise too high and then it leads to a great fall. That's actually life advice too, you know? Don't get, don't, you know, stay humble.
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