Stuff Happiness Is Made Of

3 Tiered Slab Of Butter

I haven't had the energy or the calories to bake this weekend, and therefore I'm digging into my archive of things I've baked in the past.

I love decorating. Somehow producing something that looks pretty gives me the warm glow inside and the desire to produce more lovely things.

This was a cake I made for my friend's 21st. It was a he, which made many people think that it wasn't a very appropriate cake for a boy. I agree - but I wanted so much to decorate a cake this way that I just went ahead with it. The birthday boy didn't complain, at least not to me. To date this is probably the biggest cake I've ever baked.

It took me about a week in all, baking the cakes separately (5 cakes in all, each teir being 2 layers, and the top layer just an 8 inch cake quartered, using the other half of the cake to make truffles), crumb coating it, putting on the white icing and finally the decoration.

The cake if I'm not mistaken was filled with ganache, with a pound cake layer at the bottom and a chocolate layer on top. The icing was royal icing and I made truffles to go at the top.

I love making tiered cakes, but there is not much opportunity to bake them since they're purely for celebratory reasons. That's why I love it when it's someone's birthday.

Now, that just made me sound like all I live for is to bake cakes for birthdays.

Labels: Cakes

posted by Baking Fairy at 10:05 PM