Hello friends! Long time no blog! This last week has been crazy for me and I apologize that I haven't updated you in a while. On top of all the normal things, the boyfriend and I have started watching Lost (he hasn't seen it before) and that is eating up most of our free time.
Last week was an intense week at school. We made a lot of things over five days, so there will be two or three posts. Today's post will be about the two days when Laci came to teach us more about cake.
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Butter for two batches of buttercream
Each recipe calls for 2609 grams of butter... |
We started the day buy making an obscene amount of buttercream. We got to use the Hobart for the first time, which was exciting.
Once the buttercream was ready we started assembling cakes. Laci taught us a really interesting way to do it that I had never heard of before. We built the cake from the outside in. For the first cake we frosted acetate and then slipped into a cake ring.
We then slipped cake layers into the buttercream outer ring and put cocoa nib buttercream and a layer of chocolate pearls in-between each piece of cake.
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| Layer of cake |
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| Cocoa Nib Buttercream |
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| Chocolate Pearls |
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| Second Layer of Cake |
We continued that pattern until we were almost to the top of the acetate ring. The top layer was the same plain buttercream that was on the inside of the acetate.
We let the cake sit in the fridge overnight to set up. The next day we popped it out of the cake ring and peeled off the acetate before we covered the cake in fondant. We put the cake on top of a larger dummy cake tier and decorated it. I used brush embroidery.
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| Draping the cake in fondant |
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| The cake on top of a dummy cake |
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Close up of the brushed embroidery
(Not my cleanest work, because I was running out of time) |
This method of building the cake from the inside out is beneficial, because the cake will always be straight and even. The drawback is that sometimes there is a gross amount of buttercream on the top, because another cake layer won't fit.
We also did a cake by putting the buttercream directly on the cake ring. Everything about putting it together was the same, but we had to use a blowtorch to get it out. We decorated the second cake with buttercream. I decorated mine with ruffles. The top ended up looking like a carnation, which was really pretty. The buttercream was warming up in my hands, which accounts for some of the inconsistency in the ruffles.
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On the second day we decorated cupcakes!
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| Cupcake Party! |
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| Decorated Cupcake Party! |
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| Beet Red Velvet Cupcake with Fondant Cherry Blossoms |
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| Pumpkin Cupcake with Buttercream, Cinnamon, and Fondant Leaves |
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| White Cupcake with Buttercream and Chocolate Pearl Eyes |
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