Tag: four layer cake

  • dark chocolate plum cake

    dark chocolate plum cake

    today marks a month since i moved in to college! here’s a timeline of some (lena’s lunchbox-related) events that have happened so far: august 28: i started marketing immediately, plastering my door with cake photos and posting in the GW facebook group. september 1: i tested out the kitchen in my residence hall by baking a chocolate…

  • chocolate mousse cake

    chocolate mousse cake

    remember when i went to minnesota and hung out with molly and we made a cake for vanity fair? probably the best week of my life. this cake uses the same sponge and frosting as that one, but i added chocolate mousse and chocolate ganache to make it extra rich. i also left the decoration pretty simple and…

  • dump truck cake

    dump truck cake

    what has four wheels and flies? a dump truck! get it? sorry. it took me a while to understand. i made this for a three-year-old’s birthday party. last year i made him a cake that looked like an alpaca. those are two pretty cool interests to have as a toddler, alpacas and dump trucks. next…

  • dark chocolate clementine cake

    dark chocolate clementine cake

    clementines offer a brightness matched by few other types of winter produce. beets are earthy and evasive; radishes are spicy and curt; grapefruit packs a punch, but its bitter aftertaste offsets its initial sunniness. january’s gloomy nights, often solely illuminated by dull moonlight on dirty snow, parallel this cake’s dense chocolate sponge and thick, dark ganache. solace arrives in the form…