During the past two months I have been busy with the normal work related things...the joy of being a teacher and all that! However, I have managed to bake a few different cakes for various events.
Here are three...
My first cake was for a 70th Birthday... the brief... chocolate cake with turquoise and red. The chocolate cake itself is my 'go to' recipe from Nigella and it already on my blog. For the frosting I decided to swap things around a little and make swiss style chocolate butter cream. The chocolate walls are painted with white chocolate coloured with specialist chocolate colouring powder. I made the truffles with a simple cherry flavouring and used the same chocolate drizzle effect.
The second cake I made was for a 5 year olds birthday... the brief... pirate cake! This one used a range of fondant icing to mould characters and other pieces, something I am not that good at, therefore I had friends to help me out! The cake is a simple tray back vanilla butter cake covered in a vanilla butter cream icing and raspberry jam.
We also made some cupcakes frosted with swiss butter cream flavoured with raspberry and iced to look like mini ice-creams.
The final cake was for a 30(something) birthday... the brief... Ferrero Rocher ... a GIANT one. This cake took the most time to make and consisted of a ball of chocolate containing a hazelnut chocolate mousse sandwiched with a rich chocolate sponge cake. Then the whole ball is coasted in molten chocolate mixed with hazelnuts.
This cake could easily be turned in to a sheet cake and is something I may try in the future.
This cake could easily be turned in to a sheet cake and is something I may try in the future.
