My interpretation of a Barbie… Chocolate with home-made raspberry syrup and dark chocolate ganache for all tiers but the bottom – roasted hazelnut ganache with Kahlua. All are 2”, torted in 3 layers, for a finished height of 3”; 12-10-8-6-4-inch rounds for a party of 35-40 people – only the secret spiked bottom tier remained [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Two 6″ Mugs of Steaming Coffee
Posted in Cakes, tagged Coffee Mug Cake Cup Fondant on December 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Made for my mom and a good friend of ours, who has the same name. We were invited over to celebrate their name day together, so I figured two cakes were in order. One is Garash Torte, the other is our staple flourless walnut with a combination of pastry cream and SMBC. I had left [...]
Cheerful Topsy-Turvy for Mom
Posted in Cakes, tagged cake, cheerful, orange, topsy-turvy, Yellow on December 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My very own, very first topsy-turvy cake for my mom’s birthday today. She said she wanted nothing wintery, instead something cheerful and bright… Cake is my (her!) staple flourless walnut in 12 tortes for top and 4 for bottom, with rum simple syrup; filling is similar to chocolate SMBC, but with egg yolks instead of [...]
Genoise, torted into 6 layers, gently brushed with Lemon Simple Syrup, filled with alternating layers of Vanilla Creme Chiboust and Meyer Lemon Curd, iced in whipped cream and wrapped in torn white chocolate (second attempt at chocolate wrap, too thin, I need to work on it). The cake should be called “Get a workout over [...]
Heavy textbooks for a Dec.8 / Graduation party
Posted in Cakes, tagged books, cake, graduation, heavy on December 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Made for the graduation of a good friend. The top book is Chambord WASC (yuk… it had the texture of marshmallows… ) with white chocolate raspberry ganache (so-so). Bottom is two Garash tortes on top of each other – thus the bulge in the middle, cake board was too big), each torte is made of [...]
First 3-tier Cake — Thanksgiving
Posted in Cakes, tagged brown, cake, Marble, White on December 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The many things that went wrong… Cake was made in 2 nights – I’d have given myself 4 for a first-time tiered cake…. It was *supposed* to be a topsy-turvy – hm… pastry cream not a good filling choice?… I resolved to boring flat, leveled and mortared but it still flooded out at a few [...]
