Rhode Show...

Hello!

I will be appearing on our local FOX Rhode Show, tomorrow, Wednesday, October 21st @ 8am.

Tune in to see me make a delicious Chocolate Cake w/ a Spicy Pumpkin Mousse!

The recipes I will be using are below- so get ready to BAKE!!!

Sinfully, Jennifer

Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

8 oz Milk (1 cup)

4.50 oz Butter (1 stick)

2.5 oz Cocoa (3/4 cup)

16 oz Brown Sugar (2 cups)

6.25 oz Sour Cream (3/4 cup)

2 Eggs

1 tbsp Vanilla Extract

10 oz Flour (2 cups)

.5 tsp Salt

2 tsp Baking Soda

1 tsp Baking Powder

52 Total

Instructions

1) Heat milk and butter and stir/heat until melted.

3) Sift cocoa into sugar, add cocoa mixture to milk mixture and whisk till smooth.

4) Whisk sour cream, eggs and vanilla together. Stir into milk mixture.

5) Sift flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Fold or gently mix into batter.

6) Pour into an 8" pan. Bake at 325, for approximately 30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. (Seems to take a bit longer to bake than other cakes)

Spicy Pumpkin Mousse

Ingredients

15 oz Pumpkin -- canned

3 cup Heavy Cream

3/4 cup Sugar

1/2 tsp Pumpkin Spice

1 tbsp Vanilla Extract

1.5 tsp Cinnamon, Ground

1/2 tsp Ginger, Ground

1/4 tsp Nutmeg

1/4 tsp Allspice

1/4 tsp Cayenne Pepper

Ginger Snaps -- garnish

Instructions

1. Combine pumpkin, 1 cup cream, sugar and spices in a medium saucepan.

2. Simmer over medium heat for 5 minutes. Cool fully.

3. Whip remaining heavy cream and vanilla to soft peaks.

4. Fold into cooled pumpkin mixture.

5. Pour into a serving dish and crumble the ginger snaps over top before serving.

Best Wedding Cake ever....

So sorry that I haven't posted in a while! October is surprisingly busy this year! This will be a really short post, but I promise I'll post again next week! If you want to see some more cakes check out the website, I updated it last weekend....

Here's the best wedding cake ever...

Isn't so cool... even though they couldn't get a halloween wedding date, they still wanted a halloween cake, so we did this awesome haunted house for them. We had so much fun doing it!

Summer fun cakes

So here are some of the fun cakes we did this summer....

A Mardi Gras mask for a very unusual baby shower....

A golf bag with all the golfer's favorite items...

A kids railroad train set....

And for Zoobilee (way back in June! Sorry!) an iceberg with lots of fun penguins....

A car, a purse and another car...

Lightening McQueen for a pretty awesome 1st birthday.

A coach purse for a shower.

And for a special birthday a 1969 Chevette Super Sport Convertible.

Summer Weddings I

I know, I've been bad. I haven't been keeping up with my posting, but we've been busy! Really busy.... See.... 

A beautiful 4 tier red velvet cake with bailey's ganache filling and buttercream frosting. We decorated the cake with sage green teardrops in different style on each layer....  

Then there was the 5 tier simple ribbon cake. The cake was alternating layers of peanut butter with chocolate ganache, and yellow cake with peanut butter filling. The bride provided the adorable cake toppers. 

And this one we loved.... an adorable small cake covered in a light blue fondant with red flowers. It was topped with cute red converse sneakers and red ballet shoes. The cake was a vegan chocolate and a vegan vanilla cake.... 

        

I promise, I'll come back soon with more cakes! 

Wedding Cakes II

Here are a few more of the wedding cakes we've been working on this summer....

This one we call "The Mullet cake"...

Business in the Front....

Party in the Back.

The cake was half champagne cake with lemon filling and the other half was peanut butter with chocolate frosting. The front half had small simple dots and was topped with fresh flowers at the site. The back half, for the groom, had a beer tap, clysdales, red sox logo, ect. A Really Fun Cake!

This is our organic cake. We bought all organic materials from Whole Foods for the couple and used Fondarific fondant and natural food dyes.

The same weekend as our organic cake, we had another natural cake... This was a cake the bride had seen in Martha Stewart and wanted us to re-create. A rough frosting with all natural fruits as decoration. We used figs, grapes, strawberries, key limes, white peaches, pluots (I don't know either, but they were the right size) and pears. The cake was lemon cake with lemon filling.

A few weeks earlier we did an incredible painted peacock cake (Thanks Ashley!) I wish we had a better picture of it, but we're waiting on the photographer. It was stunning. The design came off the invite to the Indian wedding. The whole room was done up in bright pinks, oranges and reds... a visual feast!

Next up we'll show you some of the fun cakes we've done....

What goes into a wedding cake?

I  know what some of you are probably thinking... It's just cake, why does it cost so much? 

Well... let us show you what goes into making a simple wedding cake. This is what we did for a recent wedding. It was a 4 tier buttercream frosted cake for 150 people with a bow and ribbon decoration.  

Step 1: Mixing and Baking... Total Time 2 hours 25 minutes. 

She had 2 flavors, Chocolate Bourbon with cookies and cream filling and Chocolate Chip. 1 hour 20 minutes to mix and bake the Chocolate Bourbon and then 1 hour 5 minutes to mix and bake the 2nd flavor, Chocolate Chip. 

24 hours to chill and firm. 

Step 2: Cutting, filling and crumb coating... Total time 45 minutes

First we cut the bourbons in half and then fill with frosting and cookie pieces. Each layer is set up with cake, filling cake, middle layer of frosting, cake filling and top layer of frosting. Then we put a thin layer of frosting over the entire cake and chill again till firm. We do this twice for the chocolate bourbon layers and then we do the chip layers, but they don't get cut in half, they're too chunky to cut. 

  

Step 3: Final Frosting...Total time 1 hour
Next we smooth on the final coat to each layer. At this time we also add support straws for stacking. Back in the fridge to chill. 

Step 4: Decorating... Total time 1 hour 30 minutes. 

When the cake is firmly chilled we add the chocolate fondant ribbon to each layer and make the chocolate bows. Then each cake layer is boxed and set aside till delivery. 

Step 5: Delivery and set up... Total Time... 1 hour 

Delivery time will vary depending on where the event is located. This cake went to the Providence Biltmore hotel which is close by. Still we have to load the car, unload the car, take the cake up to the ballroom, unpack the cake and very carefully stack the cake layers on top of each other. Then we finish by putting the bows on. 

Final Product: 

Total time for this cake 6 hours and 40 minutes over the course of 3 days. 

This was a fairly simple cake, there wasn't any intricate piping, no fondant covering, we didn't have to make many pieces to add to the cake, but it still took about 7 hours... 

So, now our lesson for today is done... You now know what goes into making a wedding cake! 

Enjoy!