Showing posts with label cake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cake. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Triple Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Ganache

I found this pan at Walmart for $18. I can't even count how many times we have used it in the past few weeks. We LOVE this pan. It is so easy to use and when used correctly every cake comes out perfectly. They are beautiful little cakes that never cease to impress. For the final course of our Fall feast we made these mini bundt cakes with a simple Triple Chocolate Fudge cake mix. We added more chocolate chips and topped it off with strawberries and this Chocolate Ganache.


Ingredients
  • 9 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
  • 1 cup heavy cream
Directions
  1. Place the chocolate into a medium bowl. Heat the cream in a small sauce pan over medium heat. Bring just to a boil, watching very carefully because if it boils for a few seconds, it will boil out of the pot. When the cream has come to a boil, pour over the chopped chocolate, and whisk until smooth. Stir in the rum if desired.
  2. Allow the ganache to cool slightly before pouring over a cake. Start at the center of the cake and work outward. For a fluffy frosting or chocolate filling, allow it to cool until thick, then whip with a whisk until light and fluffy.
We hope you enjoy these easy and yummy recipes for the fall season!!



Monday, May 10, 2010

Wedding Cakes - Fondant

Mindy & Jon
Ivory fondant with pearl dust.  Elegant!

Sarah & Aaron
Very colorful inside.  I used blue and yellow Jimmies
to make a "funfetti" cake that matched the color scheme.

Shara & Shane
Each tier is decorated to look like an elegantly wrapped gift.  
Inside are swirls of blue, yellow and white cake. 
Shara helped design this fantastic cake.  She and her mother rolled the many edible fondant pearls. 
Sarah and I worked for several weeks on this project, but it was worth it!

Natalie & Josh
Edible pearls covered in gold pearl dust.

Jennifer & Ryan
A simple design, but so lovely.  I used Swarovski crystal beads
 on gently curved wires to add some sparkle.

Wedding Cakes - Buttercream

Alisha & Jared

Michelle & Sam

Melanie & Nick
 

Amber & Cameron

Christina & Kyle

A wedding on the Delta Queen, Sacramento River.

The Bishops

A Fall Wedding

A reception at the Allen home.

Sara

Kent & Kristina
This is the first wedding cake I helped Sarah with.  She was told she could choose any design.  The entire cake is piped in basket weave, very time consuming.  Sarah did a fantastic job.

Birthday Cakes

Kelly, born on St. Patrick's Day, gets a lovely green cake.

Primary colors for young Russell.

Every little boy loves baseabll!

Smoothly iced basketball cake.

Sarah tries her hand at decorating a basketball cake. 
This one is done using a star tip.

A deliciously large baseball.

A simple way to decorate a cake.  A paper character cut-out.

Mari's yellow puppy cake. 
Made of pound cake, Hostess Cupcakes & Twinkies. 

What a "sweet" little puppy.

           Now that Bradford is older he prefers brownies.  They are just as easy to decorate as a cake.             

A family favorite - Petit Fours. Yum!
Hilary celebrates her 18th birthday.

Sarah heads off with a tray of  birthday petit fours to share with her friends.

My friend Chrissi wanted a lesson in cake decorating. 
So we designed a postage stamp cake for her father's 70th birthday.

This was for Great-Grandma Hogge's birthday.  Mari decided to help decorate, which she did by smearing orange frosting on the white cake.  So I turned it into a marble frosted cake. 
It turned out quite well for a faux pas.

Hilary and Hailey wanted a chocolate cake that looked like fondant. . . but wasn't. 
They seem pleased with this rendition. 

My twins ten years apart, Sarah and Bradford, celebrate their half birthday
 by each decorating their half of a cake.  Kids love to decorate cakes.

Sarah helped decorate this cake for her friend Crystal. 
You can tell she is pleased.

Pink roses and pearls for Sarah's 9th birthday.

Hilary, Uncle Andy, and Grandma Stowers often celebrated their birthdays together. 
Here we have white cake and whipped frosting with
fresh strawberries on top and as a filling.  So refreshing!

Chocolate on chocolate. Always a great combination.

Here, the "twins" share a cake and make birthday wishes. 

Celebration Cakes

Blessing Day for my granddaughter Alice.

Sarah's graduation from high school. Chocolate, of course!

Celebrating an Eagle Scout award.

Fun on Groundhog Day. Almond Joy candy bars become Punksatony Phil - Cute!

2001 Galena Graduating Seniors get a cake too.

Polka-dot Fondant