The delicate almond sponge cake layers are frosted with a creamy coffee-flavored buttercream, then topped with a simple chocolate ganache.
You’ll also find this classic coffee cake in my dessert cookbook, The European Cake Cookbook. It’s traditionally made in a rectangle shape and you can find it in just about any Parisian bakery shop! Cyriaque wanted to create that captured the elegance and style of the city.
The Opera Cake was created in France in 1955 by French pastry chef Cyriaque Gavillon and named after the Parisian ‘Palais Garnier’ opera house.