http://leitesculinaria.com/3192/recipes-snowflake-cake.html This James Beard Award-winning site from David Leite offers food writing, cookbook and Portuguese recipes, giveaways, more. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:03:00 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://leitesculinaria.com/3192/recipes-snowflake-cake.html#comment-6529 L.F. Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:39:31 +0000 http://leitesculinaria.com/wordpress/?p=3192#comment-6529 This was incredibly, incredibly dense. My office loved it, but I just found it to be an extremely sweet brick. The cake batter was very light (so light, in fact, that it overflowed from the cake pans while baking, so remember to place the cake pans on a baking sheet), but then the cake somehow settled. And if you can't find silver dragées, it looks more like a starfish cake than a snowflake cake. This was incredibly, incredibly dense. My office loved it, but I just found it to be an extremely sweet brick. The cake batter was very light (so light, in fact, that it overflowed from the cake pans while baking, so remember to place the cake pans on a baking sheet), but then the cake somehow settled. And if you can’t find silver dragées, it looks more like a starfish cake than a snowflake cake.

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