D-d's birthday cake

[curiouswombat]

Just before Easter I was looking at a book I have of Easter Crafts and recipes. I commented to S2C and D-d (who just happened to have called around) that sometimes the links between the recipe and the occasion were tenuous and gave them an example.

"I want one! Could you make it for my birthday?" was D-d's immediate response - a sentiment seconded by her father with enthusiasm.

The item in question was a Trinity Cake.



Trinity Cake is so named because it is made up of 3 layers of sponge cake, each one flavoured differently; one vanilla, one coffee and one chocolate. Sandwiched together with buttercream.

In this case with 3 flavours of buttercream to match the 3 flavours of sponge.



The top layer of buttercream was the chocolate one - with rosettes of the coffee stuff, and maltesers for decoration.

This is what it looked like inside - and as a slice;




So, now you know what Trinity Cake is!

If I'd been feeling very creative I would also have covered the sides in buttercream - but, it was agreed, even without that extra touch it was a very tasty birthday cake.

Comments

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Such a shame that I can't e-mail cake.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It really is fairly straight forward - but it did taste very good.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It was rather good!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It really is pretty simple to make - just 3 1-egg Victoria sponges and a good deal of buttercream...

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It was very tasty, I must admit.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[mummy-owl.livejournal.com]

Oh that looks soooo yummy!

Why not a chocolate wedding cake? I made one for my first daughter's wedding and an ice-cream one for the second! ;-)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It was really rather good - and really easy, too. Being a triple decker made it that bit more interesting.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It was rather nice - and not really that complicated. Although I'm still not sure that it has any great religious significance!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Sorry. Perhaps a cupcake sized one would be OK?

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I fear it probably wouldn't travel very well... which is a pity as I would happily make them for all and sundry!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It was nicely balanced by the vanilla and the chocolate - and I made sure that the coffee cake and the coffee buttercream were not quite together.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I'd say the theological significance is that a good buttercream is utterly divine?

Ah - you may have solved the puzzle!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I do enjoy baking.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Chocolate wedding cakes are fine - but they don't keep, so sadly the missing relatives, and those on the other side of the world, can not get those mysterious silver boxes of cake I remember so well from my childhood!

The reason the chocolate wedding cake was being used as a comparison was that it really was such a simple cake, when you looked at it properly - and the bakers had charged £400 for it! D-d and I concluded that this one was just as good, more interesting due to the different flavours, actually no less complicated - and if we had scaled it up to the size of the wedding cake in question it would have cost under £50 for ingredients, and taken less than 2 hours work, not counting the time it was in the oven...

[rs9.livejournal.com]

OMG! I want some! Delicious!

[ayinhara.livejournal.com]

You are a cake master. That is beautiful and tasty too I bet.

[engarian.livejournal.com]

OMG - I want to live with you for a while. May I? I don't think I've ever seen something that looked so amazingly good in years and years and years!!!

- Erulisse (one L)

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

That is outrageously gorgeous and looks incredibly delicious.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I do think it a pity that no-one has invented a way to e-mail cake...

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It did taste very good, to be honest.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

You'd be welcome. The funny thing is that it was a remarkably simple cake to make - but it did taste very good.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you. To be honest it wasn't difficult to make - it did taste very good though :)

[bojojoti.livejournal.com]

That looks fabulous--and some of my favorite flavors, too!