Stripey cake

Dear all,

For my brother's girlfriend I attempted to make a cover recipe from Good Food magazine (my favourite magazine). It was a very time consuming cake to make but the result was spectacular and I think the recipient was very very happy with it! So what is all the fuss about? See for yourself:

The cake consisted of chocolate and orange flavoured cakes. It required making 8 separate cakes, rectangular and round. The rectangular cakes were then cut into strips.


I spread a thin layer of orange flavoured butter cream icing over the strips and started rolling them up, by alternating the chocolate and orange cake strips.


Spreading more butter cream icing on top of the rolled up cake (aiming for a 20 cm diameter) I placed the round cake on top, flipped it, and then added the second round cake.


Once fully assembled I crumb coated the cake with a similar buttercream icing in preparation for decorating it with fondant.


I then covered the cake in white fondant and started decorating. I decided to add a message in Portuguese as the recipient is Brazilian. Thank goodness for Google translate which helped me tell her 'happy birthday'.


I have over the years acquired many decorating tools but there was one I had been dying to use for ages. Kind of an art deco/baroque feel to it (correct me if I'm wrong - I know next to nothing about art history) and just totally awesome.


The real question was of course, what does it look like on the inside? Tadaa!


It turned out looking really neat, those stripes and I got a ton of questions as to how I had done it. And even after showing them the 'making of' photo's some people were still confused. Success!


The only comment on this cake would be that I didn't get the texture quite right. As someone pointed out, it tasted rather eggy, rather than like a sponge. It didn't diminish the flavour, it made for rather an interesting texture, but IF I ever decide to attempt this cake again I would have to rethink the size/number of eggs (possibly Dutch sizes vary from UK standard sizes or something).

Still fantastic cake though!!

xoxo Jennifer