Mind The Gap

Made some sample cakes, to feed to friends and family over thanksgiving and solicit feedback. The purpose is to decide on wedding cake flavors as early in the game as possible.

So far:

• Lemon-Lime cake with pineapple curd filling
• Coconut Icebox cake
• Sweet Potato cake with pecan cream cheese frosting
• Devil’s food cake with peppermint butter cream filling and mint-chocolate ganache frosting

All of the frosting I sampled during construction, and the cake I sampled after leveling the layers, was very good. I may do another set of 3 or 4 flavors at Christmas time, in hopes of coming out with 3 or 4 well liked flavors in the end.

Since I would like to have the wedding cake be a big cantilevered, tiered, fancy display thing, covered in itty bitty petit fours of various flavors sitting on each tier, the job after flavor decisions will be to figure out how to adapt the cake and frosting recipes to make petit fours out of them.

Not feeling too well today.  Woke up freezing, with a sore throat to boot.  So, I called in and am camping out at the house.

Yesterday afternoon I felt enterprising, so I baked a cake, which is keeping me company now.   It’s a banana cake (white cake mix with smooshed bananas added) with strawberry filling (strawberry preserves from a jar) and cream cheese frosting/glaze (cream cheese, powdered sugar, vanilla extract).  Pretty yummy. I’ll have to make it again some time — it was a great way to use up the few bananas that had gotten too soft to eat plain.

Ryan posted some more pictures from Halloween: http://www.mokeys.org/blog/?p=283

K, back to bed now.