JS: It’s such a cute and delicious cake.
SU: Yeah.
JS: It’s very cute. Is there any special equipment or ingredients that bakers should maybe have on hand?
SU: I would say take the trouble to source some really nice strawberries. And actually, I see this somewhere in all of the text that I wrote. I said if you can’t find good strawberries, you can also do this with raspberries, and it’s actually preferable than trying to use mediocre strawberries.
JS: They’re consistent. Yeah.
SU: Yeah, they’re consistent and they’re lovely. Best strawberries, failing which good raspberries.
JS: Nice. Well, bake lovers, once you bake through this cake, you can send us your pictures and questions. There are so many different ways to get in touch.
SU: You can comment on the recipe on the Epicurious app or on the Bon Appetit website, you can comment on our Substack, or you can email us at [email protected]. And if you’ve made it and loved it, rate and review the recipe on our site.
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SU: And Shilpa Uskokovic.
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SU: I’m Shilpa Uskokovic.
JS: And I’m JS.
SU: We’re both senior test kitchen editors at Bon Appetit.
JS: And this is BA Bake Club.
SU: Bake Club is Bon Appetit’s community of confident and curious bakers.
JS: We’re creating the nerdiest and most wholesome corner of the baking internet.
SU: Every month, we publish a recipe on bonappetit.com that introduces a baking concept that we think you should know.
JS: And then you’ll go bake, send us any questions you might have or pictures of your finished creations.
SU: And we’ll get together here on the podcast to talk about the recipe.
JS: The April Bake Club recipe, Strawberry Roll Cake is live now on bonappetit.com. And we’ll tell you a bit more about that at the end of the episode.
SU: But today, today, Jesse, we’re here to talk about your chocolate Guinness cake.
JS: Yes.
SU: Here are some of the comments we’ve got on this cake, in quotes, “Indulgent, truly obsessed, magic cake.”
JS: Okay.
SU: Jesse, tell us. Tell us everything about this magical indulgent cake that everybody is truly obsessed about.
JS: Yeah. The truth is I feel like sometimes for Bake Club, we sit and we pull these ideas out of our head. And then sometimes we-
SU: That’s not the body part I would’ve referred to.
