Thursday, August 27, 2009

Seashells and waves


08-27-2009 I admit I cheated a bit in the fact that the seashell chocolates are pre-made by a Belgium company. I put waves complete with foam on the sides of the cake and tinted the top sand color. The cake was a Funfetti one filled with pudding in between the layers of cake. The font I also used a trick to create. In order to achieve the penmanship I desired I printed out what I wanted to say on the cake in the correct size and font on a regular piece of paper. After printing it out I used a quilting pin and punched wholes into the paper following the lines of the type while it was over a clean folded towel. Then I placed the whole punched paper onto to the cake where I wanted the font. I then sprinkled cocoa powder over the paper and used a small paint brush to ensure the cocoa went through the wholes. Removed the paper to find my outline and traced it with my desired frosting.

Friday, August 7, 2009

Chocolate Lasagna


08-07-09 mmmm, chocolate lasgana... I got to make my own birthday cake this year as an added treat to getting my new Hamilton Beach mixer as my present. I absolutely love it! The top design is made from melted mini chocolate chips. The cake is a butter fudge and the icing is an almond butter cream. 3 layers of cake, 2 inner layers of icing include chocolate chips to infuse even more chocolate in every bite. mini chocolate chips are stuck to the lightly iced sides. In true lasagna style, the layers of filling are trying to escape all along the sides. Doesn't it just look delicious.