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09 March 2004 - Let Them Eat Cake! Saturdays seem to evolved into "Cake Day" recently. It is usually our grocery shopping day, usually the day S. and I go to my parents' house for dinner and over the past few weeks has become the day when I bake and decorate a cake...working towards the slightly more extravagant as I go along, I'm hoping. On Friday when I was there doing our laundry (yes, I do our laundry at my parents' house every week) I took a poll on what kind of cake people were in the mood for the next evening after dinner. My older brother David requested white cake and everyone seemed happy with that. Knowing that I still had some ganache in the fridge from the last cake I made I figured a white cake with preserve between the layers and a pure chocolate icing (with royal icing embellishments, of course!) would work out well. Since I still had buttermilk and it hadn't gone off yet, and I always have eggwhites, I thought a recipe for Buttermilk White Cake that I had hanging around (with no idea where it originally came from) would be a good choice. It turned out nicely, I think; the cake tasted pretty good too, and looked rather elegant -- perhaps not as elegant as the poured ganache icing had last time, but attractive nonetheless. This weekend I am making a cake for my dad's birthday -- my mom steered me towards what she is certain is his favourite kind of cake, so I'll make it on Saturday morning. Also, I learned how to do marzipan figurines in my cake decorating class on Monday, so I think I'll try to make a black lab to put on top of it. Stay tuned to see the results! |