Today my sister and her best mate came over to mine for a ‘Baking Test Day’ for her engagement party at
the end of the month. It was just a day to try out a few recipes we plan to use
on few dessert items and to work out timing and other things so that we can get them done as swiftly as possible.
Anyway I spent my time making this..
Its a Red Velvet and Vanilla checkerboard cake with a strawberry cream filling and vanilla fondant icing with chocolate dipped strawberries around the bottom.
I’ve never made thisbeast type
of cake before, nor have I ever used fondant. But I went in to it with this picture of what I was going to do in my mind thinking it would be okai.
I was wrong. Nothing I had planned in my head seemed to work out, during the assembly, where I had to cut each cake in half and then cut even shapes out of each piece so I could swap them to the opposite cake and fill them to stick them together, we ended up calling it 'disaster cake'. It looked a mess!
I was really let down with myself and my supposed inability to deliver for my sister. But determined to make it look atleast slightly appetising I set about decorating the thing. I was not particularly confident at this point as I have never worked with any type of fondant. Luckily (thanks to watching the show Cake Boss) I was able to think up a couple of ideas to spruce it up a little. Using a letter opener and a ruler I was able to add a quilting-esc effect. Which luckily with the help of the sugar balls looked okai.
Finally I decided, "stuff it! I may as well play around, i have nothing to lose" and attempted to do a marbeled blue fondant flower. i must say I was pretty chuffed with how it turned out.
All in all, while this stupid thing drove me bat crap crazy while I made,assembled and decorated it didn't turn out half bad. Really it wasn't a bad effort, if i do say so myself, for a first attempt at this type of cake and for using fondant in any way shape or form.
Anyway I spent my time making this..
Its a Red Velvet and Vanilla checkerboard cake with a strawberry cream filling and vanilla fondant icing with chocolate dipped strawberries around the bottom.
I’ve never made this
I was wrong. Nothing I had planned in my head seemed to work out, during the assembly, where I had to cut each cake in half and then cut even shapes out of each piece so I could swap them to the opposite cake and fill them to stick them together, we ended up calling it 'disaster cake'. It looked a mess!
I was really let down with myself and my supposed inability to deliver for my sister. But determined to make it look atleast slightly appetising I set about decorating the thing. I was not particularly confident at this point as I have never worked with any type of fondant. Luckily (thanks to watching the show Cake Boss) I was able to think up a couple of ideas to spruce it up a little. Using a letter opener and a ruler I was able to add a quilting-esc effect. Which luckily with the help of the sugar balls looked okai.
Finally I decided, "stuff it! I may as well play around, i have nothing to lose" and attempted to do a marbeled blue fondant flower. i must say I was pretty chuffed with how it turned out.
All in all, while this stupid thing drove me bat crap crazy while I made,assembled and decorated it didn't turn out half bad. Really it wasn't a bad effort, if i do say so myself, for a first attempt at this type of cake and for using fondant in any way shape or form.
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