From Like Water for Chocolate · 1992 · Screen-exact
Chabela Wedding Cake
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Serve it with a warning — Tita's tears baked into this cake sent an entire wedding party into weeping, longing, and worse.
In the movie
Theatrical
- 00:20:24 Forced to bake the cake for Pedro's wedding to her sister, Tita weeps into the batter — and every guest who eats it is seized by grief for their lost loves, with memorably messy results.
The wedding cake is the story's cruelest assignment — bake the cake for the man you love marrying your sister — and its most famous consequence: communal heartbreak by dessert. Esquivel's novel gives the actual recipe; the film gives it the aftermath.
Ingredients
- For the fondant glaze:
- For the apricot filling:
Method
- Whisk the eggs and sugar over a bain-marie until warm, then beat until tripled, pale, and ribboned — the old sponge method, no leavening but air.
- Fold in the flour, zest, and salt with a light hand.
- Bake in two 9-inch pans at 350°F for 25 minutes, until golden and a skewer poked into the center comes out clean; cool completely.
- Fill with warmed apricot preserves.
- Beat the fondant glaze smooth and pour over, letting it set to a pale shell. Keep your feelings out of the batter, or don't — but know what happens.
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