Happy Birthday Curt! March 23rd, 2013

A wonderful returning customer ordered her husband this richly delicious cake!  Created with a raspberry cremeux, chocolate cake, and chocolate buttercream as well as a touch of raspberry preserves and fresh raspberries made this cake one of my personal favorites to eat!  (Yes...guilty, I ate the scraps!)  This cake was a delight to envision and the components took a couple days.  First cooking down raspberries, pushing through a chinois, cooking the raspberry cream and finally blending it into emulsion! 

Ann's non-occasion cake! 3/11/2013

 Ann came to me knowing exactly what she wanted and I was nothing but thrilled to deliver!  White cake with strawberries and Kirsch..hope you enjoy the pictures.

Bavarian Filling with Strawberries marinated in Kirsch simple syrup

 Showing the cake top soaked with the Kirsch simple syrup.

 Final Product

Ben's Birthday! March 1st, 2013

Vera has returned the favor for gifting a cake to her husband this year!  She approached me wanting a white cake and got much more than she anticipated.  This 6" cake had many components, all complementing each other wonderfully (in my opinion).  Top to bottom:  White cake, thin layer of chocolate ganache, almond-kirsch filling, white cake, thin layer of chocolate ganache, almond-kirsch filling, white cake, covered with Italian buttercream and finished with toasted almond slices and a dab of ganache for the top.  

 White Cake Layer

 Thin layer of Chocolate Ganache

 Almond-Kirsch Filling...sorry it's hard to see, the flash got the best of me there!

 Flat-iced in Vanilla Italian Buttercream

 Final Product