Here is a great video to walk you through this cake!
I added some lemon on top for a garnishing because I love the color and because this icing has a little lemon zest in it.
Category Archives: Baking
Moist Chocolate Cake - Cake Tips with Video How-To
Here are a few tips for making a moist chocolate on chocolate cake.
I almost always use a box cake mix for my orders.
There are a couple things you can do to make them a little better:
- Use dark coffee instead of water. Make sure it is at room temperature.
- Use extra large eggs, again, at room temperature.
Baking Tips:
- Always pre-heat your oven.
- Do not over bake.
- Use shiny cake pans. If you use glad or a dark, non-stick pan lower your oven temperature by 25 degrees.
Icing:
- Use almond extract rather than vanilla. EVERY time I make this people are pleasantly surprised and ask what’s in it. Here is my favorite recipe.
- Butter or half butter and Crisco makes a rich flavored icing.
The Joy of Baking has great recipes! Here is a good video with a basic chocolate cake.
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How to Stack a Cake
Bake your layers. Let them cook completely.
Make plenty of icing. For this cake I used buttercream.
Mix your icing colors.
For this baby shower cake I am using 3 shades of pink. I made a large batch of white then tinted it very lightly with pink.
I iced the smallest and lightest color layer first.
Always put the bottoms (flat sides) together in the center.
Be sure that your board is the same size as your cake.
For the next layer I tinted the bowl of icing a little darker, then placed the cakes together. Then I added 4 plastic dowel rods. They need to be cut evenly, I use a utility knife to do this. They are then placed evenly through the cake. This will support the upper layer without adding stress the the layers below.
When placing the dowel rods be sure they are evenly placed as far out as possible and still be under the previous layer’s board. If they are too close to the center, or uneven your cake will tilt.
The pillars need to be slightly higher than the cake. For this cake I will be using some ribbon to hide the rods, but you can also use icing, just be careful to have the dowel rods close to flush with the cake.
For the last layer I tinted the icing a little darker, cut dowel rods to place in the bottom layer to support the middle layer.
Stack the layers evenly upon thedowel rods.
Cover the gaps using ribbon or icing.
Add some fresh flowers or decorate how you wish.
Baking Up Some Sweet Gratitude
The last couple days Cherish and I have been baking cookies to give as a special thank you for some of the people that went above and beyond to help us with the wedding.
Gratitude, you can never show too much!
What we do on rainy afternoons… Peanut-butter Icing!
Spring is here and so is the rain!
Three little kiddos and a ‘caged-up’ hyperactive hubby calls for some drastic measures!
I turned 8 year old Cherish loose in the kitchen to bake cupcakes by herself.
She did all of the measuring and EVERYTHING just right…
she was pretty proud of herself!
I made up some peanut-butter icing for them,
which was the perfect touch for these warm chocolate cupcakes.
I made the Peanut-butter Icing without measuring so the following are rough measurements.
* 1 cup creamy peanut-butter
* 2-3 cups 10x sugar
* 1 stick butter (NOT margarine)
If it is still too dry/crummy add a little milk or water.
Happy Face Cookies
Roll out, cut and bake a round sugar cookie.
Ice with chocolate buttercream icing.
Hot knife the icing to make it smooth.
Use a #4 tip to make the white of the eye and #3 tip to make the black of the eye.
Using the ‘grass’ tip make the hair.
Eyebrows seem to define the expression!
How to Change the Color of Your Cake Layers
Last week I did a graduation cake. The theme colors were pink and orange. I made one layer with strawberry, one French vanilla and then for the third layer I used another French vanilla and added some orange food coloring while I mixed it.
This cake actually took 6 cake mixes, 2 for each layer.
For the greeting, I made some marshmallow fondant and let it dry a while, then I used food markers to write with.
