Tonight’s recipe is so easy! Using the other half of the cake mix I made the orange/dark chocolate cake roll box, I made 40 stellar petit fours. The best part, besides them tasting really great, it was not labor intensive and may be accomplished in steps on different days. Easy, tasty and pretty – what a great combination!
So, what do you think of the new website? No more Domestically Impaired and no more Kalamity Kelli – because I don’t consider myself impaired or a calamity any longer and I thought the new website should reflect that! Isn’t it bright and pretty with clean lines? I like it and owe everything to my friend Joan, from Chocolate, chocolate, and more who recommended Robin, from GRITS Design. Robin designed this page lickity split and was a dream to work with! To celebrate my new page – as well as the holiday Festivus – I, and some other bloggers will be having a Festivus celebration and a giveaway. My giveaways arrived today from OXO and they are fantastic. We each are preparing a dish featured in an episode of Seinfeld – it’s going to be so much fun and I hope you will join us.
Orange Dark Chocolate Petit Fours
The cake roll took 1 ¾ cups of cake mix from a 1 lb. 2.25 oz box. That leaves just a teensy bit less than another 1 ¾ cups of cake mix. When you make the first cake roll, make a 2nd one at the same time.
Find the ingredients and directions for that HERE. Then, instead of rolling it up in a tea towel just flip it out onto a wire cooling rack.
Then follow these directions:
Using a pizza cutter, trim around the edges so that the uneven parts are gone.
If you like, sprinkle some rum over top of the cake and let it sit for an hour.
Make another batch of the butter cream filling from the cake roll found HERE.
Spread it over the top of the remaining cake like this.
Slice cake in half and flip one side onto the top of the other.
You can use either a knife or a nifty petit four cutter to cut as many squares as you can.
Place the cake on a baking sheet and cover with plastic wrap tightly and put in the freezer for at least two hours – although I left them nearly 24 hours and they were great.
You will need one more recipe:
12 oz. chocolate – either chips or baking chocolate like this:
¼ Cup shortening
Directions:
Put both in a double boiler and melt stirring until smooth and creamy then take top pot from heat.
Working with two or three cakes as a time, pull from freezer and drop in chocolate to cover.
As you take them from the chocolate, place on wax paper or parchment paper to dry.
Decorate as you wish. I allowed Rocket to string two blocks of melted vanilla candy coating on top of these to spruce them up a little.
Store in the fridge for up to a week.
I took these to work this morning and I got many compliments on how tasty they were – I think you will like them too!
I like your new website. The design is very clean and crisp.
This sounds like an easy way to make some beautiful petit fours.
Thanks Lillian!
I’ve always wanted to make petit fours! These are so easy, I love it! I need easy right now!
It’s that time of year, isn’t it? We are all so busy! Thanks for dropping by!
I LOVE your new site, Kelli! Congratulations!
PS…your petit fours look terrific!
Thanks Liz! I’m very proud of it and just love the new look!
Gorgeous! I bet they’re as delicious as they look, too!
I love the redesign, Kelli! And those are beautiful petit fours… you’re way past “calamity” indeed!
Thank you so much for dropping by and I am so pleased you like the new look!
As one of her coworkers who had one (or four or so) of these petit fours, I can definitely vouch for how wonderful they tasted! And love the site redesign…really clean and easy to read.
Thank on both counts Jennifer!
Love Love LOVE the new site! Now you’re uptown, too! LOL
I’m so behind in my reading- I will catch up today, but so far these petit fours look amazing!! One of my favorites 🙂
Thank you so much! These are really great tasting and I’m glad you like the new site and new name!
these look beautiful! I love orange & chocolate together too 🙂
Thank you so much! They were delicious!!
My only experience was making a petit fours was a frosting mishap! (Maybe even a calamity at the time. LOL). Again, love the direction you’re taking!
I had total disasters with my petit fours before – but these were so easy and the people at work love ’em! Thank you again – I do love the new blog
These look delicious! And I would have never thought up something like this on my own!
I do love your new look, congratulations! What a good idea for using the left over mix. I think I might try brushing some Grand Marnier over the cake to enhance the orange flavor.
That sounds wonderful! I wish I had thought of it!