Sunday, January 23, 2011

Twice the flavour for a 40th birthday

Two cakes were created for a special client's 40th birthday - one for an evening out with friends and another to mark the occasion with family.

Sugarpaste details on the first cake represented a favourite pastime (scrapbooking pages), a favourite restaurant (Thai restaurant menu and a plate of spring rolls) and her profession as a teacher (books and a chalkboard). This was also an opportunity to create a new and unique flavour combination based on Chapman's Black Jack Cherry frozen yogurt: http://www.chapmans.ca/productsNew.aspx?cat=yogurt a delicious combination of black cherries and dark chocolate.

The final result included layers of rich chocolate cake filled with a dark cherry buttercream filling, made from chopped cherries and a syrup made from a cherry reduction. The cake was iced in dark chocolate truffle buttercream - decadent!



The second cake included whimsical and edible caricatures of the entire family - mom, dad and their three children, along with a few sugarpaste daisies in fall colours. The neopolitan cake included chocolate, strawberry and vanilla cake layers filled with vanilla and strawberry buttercream and iced in milk chocolate buttercream, just like the well-known ice cream.

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