The going away party cake…
Purse is 8” chocolate cake, cut in half, then each torted in 3, with dark chocolate mousse w/ morello cherries, with their syrup soaking the cake layers.
Suitcase is 9×13” Garash torte, 6 batches of the recipe for this size – only ahm…36 eggs and 2lb of butter among other things…
Leather effects are [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Going Away – Suitcase & Purse
Posted in Cakes, tagged cake, fondant, garash, leather, Marble, morello cherries, purse, suitcase on April 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Baby shower topsy-turvy w/ pastry crème abyss!
Posted in Baby, Cakes, tagged brown, cake, chocolate, flowers, ganache, kahlua, pastry creme, pink, topsy-turvy, vanilla on April 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Made in two nights for the baby shower of a good friend, to match the crib set she chose and the party decorations at the same time. Sizes are supposed to be 10-9-8, 8-7-6, 6-5-4 inches, though I don’t think I carved out that much from the bottoms. Bottom tier is chocolate with roasted hazelnuts Kahlua [...]
Little pirate cake!
Posted in Cakes, tagged cake, fondant, pirate on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For some reason I absolutely love this cake… It was very fast and easy to decorate, I actually copied someone else’s design, because I thought it looked adorable… Made for a little 7-year old pirate – there is a an inquisitive picture of him poking away at the eye patch at the party - boys! :-) [...]
Flower Mound
Posted in Cakes, tagged cake, flowers, girlie, pink on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was in a flowers mood, so decided to play around with some flowers for a 3-year old princess’s birthday, who’s not very much into dolls and frills. Those were some contemporary girlie colors I already had and needed to use them up creatively… Carved the top alike the ballerina skirt cakes just to add [...]
Vertical Tiramisu!
Posted in Cakes, tagged vertical tiramisu on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ever since I saw a “vertical” cake (a thin sheet cut in 3” strips, then layered standing up with ganache around the inside of a cheese cake pan) I have been thinking of turning my tiramisu vertical. It was a little challenging to do the first outer layer, as the biscotti kept falling in, a [...]
