This week, a couple of fancy cakes.
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Just looking at the pictures has made my blood sugar spike! LOL
Looks very good, but being a pre-diabetic, sugar and I are no longer on speaking terms. :(
Ack, fondant tastes awful. Sure, the cakes look pretty but even some cake sites say to take the fondant off when serving.
It’s easy to do. If you are apt at play-doh, you can work with fondant. I used to decorate with it for birthdays and such. Took an Uncle Sam cake to the library for their little kids reading club for 4th of July. Won at the county fair for a red barn with farm animals.
Cake-baking is rare around here, but this week is looking more and more like a perfect time for one!
These are beautiful. I can’t imagine making anything so pretty!
I’ve posted my from scratch sauerkraut cake recipe here years ago. A quick version is to use a dark chocolate (a must) boxed mix and add a can of drained, rinsed and rough chopped sauerkraut. Don’t use the sauerkraut with the extra spices, just the regular plain. While it gives a little different taste, you can’t tell there is sauerkraut in it. Most think the texture is coconut. You don’t need a frosting as it’s rich and moist enough. That or a pineapple angel food is what I request for my birthday.
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That looks yummy!
Happy Mothers’ Day! :-)
Years & years ago a friend of a fellow I was dating ran a little restaurant with a very limited menu - mostly variations of Cornish Pasties. They served one dessert item, a Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie - like a great big Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup...
Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie
Crust is optional. This recipe uses the ‘frosting’ on the pan bottom for crust.
12 oz package Bakers Chocolate
small jar creamy peanut butter
12 oz package cream cheese
1 cube butter
6 tsp vanilla
2 cups powdered sugar
1 egg
pinch of salt
small container whipped topping
Filling: Mix peanut butter & cream cheese while melting ½ cube of butter. Mixture should be room temperature for softness. Add melted butter. Stir in 3 tsp vanilla & 1 cup powdered sugar. Fold in whipped topping, add dash of salt, set aside.
Frosting: Melt chocolate w/ ½ cube of butter over very low heat. Add 3 tsp vanilla & dash of salt. Remove from heat. Stir in 1 cup powdered sugar & 1 egg until smooth. Pour half of frosting into a greased pie tin; cover with filling; spread remaining frosting smoothly over top & chill.
I won’t use fondant. Would make my teeth hurt.
How about fresh flowers on cakes? Just make sure they haven’t been exposed to pesticides. And of course are non-toxic, which should go without saying, but maybe it doesn’t. Some people say you shouldn’t put anything on a cake you wouldn’t eat, but you don’t eat candles. And some people don’t eat fondant.
You can dip small flowers in egg white and then sugar. Violets, pansies, borage, calendula, nasturtium, pea or bean, roses, cornflower (Centaura), daylily and fuchsia are all edible. Some species of dianthus are also.
Sweetpea is not edible!
My mother’s birthday is at the end of May. I usually make her a cake with roses, and we often have violets on an Easter cake.
You know, the “flowers” on your cake look they have either skulls in the center, or clowns. Maybe one could pass for Teddy Roosevelt.
That is a visually beautiful cake. One of my mother’s good friends does a theme cake for each lady’s birthday. She did a Day of the Dead cake for my mom last month. A few summers ago I was there for a birthday & she gave me a huge slice w/ thick fondant. I wanted to be polite, but I fought off projectile vomiting w/ every bite.
To this day fondant horrifies me! I love marzipan, but haven’t had any in forever ; )
Cakes! That’s what I do for a living.... I make wedding cakes. The kind that you see on the tv shows.
I love working with fondant. I know a lot of people don’t like it but I make my own marshmallow fondant. It’s quite tasty, and you can roll it much thinner. I think most of what people don’t like is the texture and that’s because it’s too thick.
I also make flowers out of gum paste. You always know who my friends are because they touch the flowers to see if they are real. I don’t know how to post pictures, but some older ones are on my website.. www.victoriancakes.com
These were really good. Great photos too!
This is a carrot cake I have been making for years. Very decadent as all carrot cakes are!