Maple cake?
On a visit to Montreal a few years ago, a restaurant we visited (apparently gone; it was called Le Parchemin and it was at 1333 Rue University) had on the dessert menu a maple cake. Not a pouding chomeur, but a two-layer cake, with the cake being genoise or something equally light, filled with a very light maple cream. The cake was topped with what seemed like pure maple syrup.
For a couple of years, this cake could be purchased from mail order companies like Harry and David or Hickory Farms.
I haven't seen it in years - 2001, to be precise, because I remember that the last time I ordered it was the Christmas after 9/11. I've googled my fingers off and apart from pouding chomeur and all sorts of recipes for cakes that happen to have maple, I can't find anything. I've tried Quebec Maple Cake, Montreal Maple Cake, chiffon maple cake, genoise maple cake...all sorts of variations and nothing.
If anyone knows what this cake is and what it is called and where it can be purchased, please post!
By Just Visiting
on Apr 15, 2010 11:27 AM
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Le Parchemin is still there http://www.leparchemin.com/default-en...
You could always contact them. If you have maple syrup, it might be easier to make your own cake, I confess. That's what my family does. But that's more a subject for the home cooking board. Sorry I cannot be more helpful.
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