Valentine Cake

Wow, it's been a while since I've posted, well it's cake time again!!!

Here's a Valentine cake with chocolate roses and buttercream piped roses and leaves, really fun to make and eat...
So much work goes into the preparation, before assembling, of course it's all about putting it together, I love working on the composition of the cake.
For the filling I made a chocolate truffle ganache and used frozen raspberries from my garden to make a raspberry mousse, I layered the two inside the cake.
I used Dede Wilson's excellent Italian buttercream frosting and added food coloring to make it pink.
Wish I could give you a slice!

The Troll Doll Cake

As soon as I saw her, I knew she was the one I will make the star of my next cake. Since I'm a big science fiction fan vintage style, low budget, B-movies, I was looking for some inspiration and she was it! No Barbie could play this part... So I baked several layers of cake and mixed some buttercream frosting and set to work.

This cake is part of an exercise to practice piping, the prep time took practically all day 7-8 hours and the decoration the following day, a couple of hours, in all about 10 hours. Because the doll inspired me so, it was a joy to assemble, just like when I work on one of my sculpture. I love to work with the design aspect and brainstorming the colors, when it all comes together it's magic!
I'm very pleased with this cake, I'm thinking about getting the whole line of these troll dolls to play with...