Cake under Construction
2 Apr 2014 10:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
curiouswombatTomorrow is D-d's birthday. We are going out for a meal and so she won't be home to have cake.
But during conversation on Sunday, when she took me out for lunch, I managed to volunteer to make her one to take to work with her. And then there was this, well it was more a pattern than a recipe, that I wanted to try...
So under the cut is a step by step of cake construction.
First task was to make some 2-egg Victoria sponges. Following the original idea (which was made with chocolate cake and a raspberry cake, but D-d is not eating chocolate as it is Lent), I did 2 sponges each in 2 different colours - so 4 sponges.
So now to take each of the sponges apart, rebuild them, and then construct the cake - you might begin to see where this is going as you look at the pictures -
A circular sponge which has been cut into... 3 circles.
That is a pink one. Then there is a plain one cut the same way; you can see I used a small bowl, and the plain side of that cookie cutter, to make the rings identical in each cake.
And if you look in the background you will see where we are at the next stage - where you replace the middle ring of the plain cake with the middle ring of the pink one, and vice versa... To make sure they stayed together I 'glued' them with Raspberry seedless jam.
Now repeat with the other two pairs of sponges.
Then I looked at them and thought 'that would make a cake that is higher than it is wide!' So I rethought a bit, and decided 3 deep would be plenty. So I sandwiched three - base with an outer plain ring, middle with an outer pink ring, and third one back to the outer plain one - held together with butter-cream and a little more raspberry jam.
The fourth layer I just topped with some left over butter-cream and we consumer tested it. And it is really rather nice.
Anyway - we now have 3 layers, which needs decorating. I have some white fondant in the cupboard, and some pink, so the rather girly colour scheme was decided.
Cover in white, make a pink and white twist for the edge - and make some butterflies with my cutters;
Finishing touch - add a pink ribbon as the plain white sides were a bit boring -
And I was rather proud of it. If you haven't worked it out, when it is cut into the effect should be a checker-board of pink and white squares - each slice will be 3x3 squares of pink and white.
And a close up of the butterflies;
She called around to collect it this evening. Her opinion? "It's a bit girly... it would make a good christening cake. But it is very clever, and I do like it."
It's a good job I did it last night - my back is playing up this evening and I really wouldn't have had the patience.
But during conversation on Sunday, when she took me out for lunch, I managed to volunteer to make her one to take to work with her. And then there was this, well it was more a pattern than a recipe, that I wanted to try...
So under the cut is a step by step of cake construction.
First task was to make some 2-egg Victoria sponges. Following the original idea (which was made with chocolate cake and a raspberry cake, but D-d is not eating chocolate as it is Lent), I did 2 sponges each in 2 different colours - so 4 sponges.
So now to take each of the sponges apart, rebuild them, and then construct the cake - you might begin to see where this is going as you look at the pictures -
A circular sponge which has been cut into... 3 circles.
That is a pink one. Then there is a plain one cut the same way; you can see I used a small bowl, and the plain side of that cookie cutter, to make the rings identical in each cake.
And if you look in the background you will see where we are at the next stage - where you replace the middle ring of the plain cake with the middle ring of the pink one, and vice versa... To make sure they stayed together I 'glued' them with Raspberry seedless jam.
Now repeat with the other two pairs of sponges.
Then I looked at them and thought 'that would make a cake that is higher than it is wide!' So I rethought a bit, and decided 3 deep would be plenty. So I sandwiched three - base with an outer plain ring, middle with an outer pink ring, and third one back to the outer plain one - held together with butter-cream and a little more raspberry jam.
The fourth layer I just topped with some left over butter-cream and we consumer tested it. And it is really rather nice.
Anyway - we now have 3 layers, which needs decorating. I have some white fondant in the cupboard, and some pink, so the rather girly colour scheme was decided.
Cover in white, make a pink and white twist for the edge - and make some butterflies with my cutters;
Finishing touch - add a pink ribbon as the plain white sides were a bit boring -
And I was rather proud of it. If you haven't worked it out, when it is cut into the effect should be a checker-board of pink and white squares - each slice will be 3x3 squares of pink and white.
And a close up of the butterflies;
She called around to collect it this evening. Her opinion? "It's a bit girly... it would make a good christening cake. But it is very clever, and I do like it."
It's a good job I did it last night - my back is playing up this evening and I really wouldn't have had the patience.
