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December 29, 2011
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Archive for December, 2011
December 29, 2011
My Christmas Cake!
Yuppiechef had a Festive Cake Icing challenge this year and as is typical of me, I left my entry to the very last minute!
I had a concept as soon as I heard about the competition. I wanted to do Santa on a tractor inner-tube in a pool with a beer in his hand, his clothes lying on the paving, a spike-collared Boerboel with a stocking in his mouth, a bag with gifts in lying abandoned on the grass- duties abandoned to an irresistible pool, he enjoys our South African sunshine!
But because I left it to the last minute I didn’t get it quite the way I wanted it and I had to adapt it a tad because I didn’t leave myself enough time…
*FACEPALM*
Then I baked a chocolate cake, filled and covered it with ganache and then covered it with bright green sugarpaste “grass”. The Santa, the dog, the boots, the “stone” pool border, the gifts and Santa’s hat are all hand-sculpted sugarpaste. I wanted to do the pool water in piping gel but I didn’t get any in time so I had to make do with blue and white butter icing.
You can see the more than worthy winners here 2011 Festive Cake Icing Champs and I am very pleased that I got a special mention!
December 24, 2011
Marble Cupcakes
Tanya orders from me on a regular basis, and since these were on special earlier in December she decided to try something she hadn’t had before.
Chocolate and vanilla marble cupcakes with chocolate butter icing!
December 24, 2011
An Espresso Streussel Cake
The recipe book describes this cake as a “Frankenstenian” melding of a cobbler, a Brown Betty pudding, and a Streussel, so I was intrigued!
Its a chocolate batter with chopped apple in it topped with roasted sugar tossed peanuts!! If you’re a fan of cake without icing, this little monster may be perfect for you.
Here it is after it came out of its baking tin!
And here it is cut so you can see the apple on the inside! Its quite dense so the apple doesn’t all sink to the bottom of the tin while its baking.
Seize the Chocolate beta tested it for me so you can pop over and see what she thought. When she collected it we had a cup of coffee and a slice of cake each… You know, to test the quality! She even froze it and thawed it successfully!