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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Snowflake Cake

I had a request for a snow themed cake for this weekend, which was nice since I have been seeing so many fun snow themed events on blogs recently and have been thinking I might need to have a party just so I could try some of the ideas.  The cake was a basic white cake from "The Cake Bible" by Rose Levy Beranbaum, with a lemon curd filling, one of my favorite combinations.  The cake was for a small winter party and I was given free reign to come up with the design.  I knew it would be a simple low key gathering so I decided to keep the cake simple as well.  I wanted to do the snowflakes in royal icing on parchment and then transfer them to the cake so they would be consistent in size, but my icing was foamy - too much meringue powder - and the snowflakes didn't firm up properly.  Since I wasn't able to transfer them I just piped them onto the cake.  The icing was firm enough so it didn't run while piping, but I didn't get the consistent look I was hoping for, overall it worked out fine just not the original vision.

7 comments:

  1. It's lovely. The blue colour with the delicate snowflakes on top is really beautiful.

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  2. This looks like Wedgewood china used to with the blue and white.

    Stopping from Mom Loop!

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  3. Oh, that is so pretty! Great design!

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  4. it looks adorable! yum... just scrolling down your blog made my stomach growl and i just had breakfast! :)

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  5. So very cute! I wish I had a bit of your talent. I'm following you from the blog frog.

    http://4mykiddos.blogspot.com

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  6. Such a beautiful cake! :) I will visit again for ideas and recipes. Thanks for sharing!

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