For Christmas two friends of mine gave me some Dutch sugar decoration and some white fondant icing... this called for a cake of course! And so for our new years party I made a cake using these awesome Christmas gifts.
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So what I did is I made a square speculaas cake.
I then cut the cake in half once it had cooled down and smeared the middle part with 'speculoos', which is a kind of speculaas flavoured peanut butter. This should make a nice gooey center for the cake.
I then stuck the two halves back together and covered the whole cake with speculaas flavoured butter cream icing. This layer of butter cream icing is both delicious and practical - it will help the fondant icing stick to the cake!
Next I refrigerated the cake so that the butter cream icing wouldn't be too smudgy when putting on the fondant icing. This also helped me smooth it out further. I took the cake out of the fridge in plenty of time before starting work on the fondant so that it wouldn't start to 'sweat'. I first started with white icing.
Next I coloured part of the white icing blue, with food colouring. I did this because the sugar decorations are blue and white (resembling 'Delfts blauw') and so that I could create a type of tile pattern.
I smoothed out the icing with a special tool and got a beautifully smooth, white, square cake! Pretty awesome I say! Not done yet though of course. After struggling quite a bit with the blue icing and its consistency I finally had it almost manageable. It wasn't perfect, and it did crumble a bit, but definitely did not take away from the impact of the blue and white contrast. Pretty! Time to add the sugar decorations too.
And then finally the time had come - I took the cake to my friends' house, we had a lovely dinner with this super cake for dessert!! Check out the inside as well, doesn't that look scrumptious!?
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Well I had a blast making this cake, thank you again friends who gave me the decorations and fondant icing, you know who you are. I love how gifts like that can send me on an inspired baking adventure, succesfully too!!
Coming up soon, some spicy baking adventures. Stay tuned ;)
xoxo Jennifer
2 comments:
AWESOME BABE! =]
XXX
- Renske -
thanks :D I made ginger cookies the other week, they'll be up coming Wednesday, check back then ;)
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