let me eat cake
i made this cake last night for my birthday, replacing "lemon" with "orange" throughout. i made a couple of changes of my own:
- when making the ganache, i added about 1/8 of a teaspoon of orange oil, so that the ganache ended up tasting exactly like a terry's chocolate orange.
- instead of waiting until the ganache firmed up entirely before frosting, i poured it over the layers while it was still somewhat liquid. this produced a really smooth, thin layer -- elegant and not too gloopy. (i don't like a thick carpet of frosting.) then, when the ganache had solidified enough to avoid frosting slump, i frosted the sides in the same thin, smooth layer.