I am back again

Here is a small post after a long brake.  It has been a very busy autumn and winter where it has happened more then I really wanted.  My dear dad past away in the beginning of November and  after his death it has been a lot to do, both emotionally and  of practical sort. But anyway I feel my strength is coming back and I am ready to bake again. Here is a few cakes I didn't have time to post before. 

 
Snow white and the seven dwarfs for a birthday party in an orphanage here in Moscow. It is a red velvet cake filled with orange and white chocolate cream .

 Also a birthday cake for a orphanage here in Moscow. Also a red velvet cake filled with orange and white chocolate cream.

 A princess cake for a small girls birthday party . It is a pink vanilla cake filled with strawberry-white chocolate cream.

The cake in the shop

This cake was a lot about testing. The lady who ordered the cake said she wanted a cake like the one in the shop for her sons engagement party. And i wasn't sure what to think or what she actually wanted, so after some more phone calls I finally understood  which cake she wanted , and yes, she wanted a cake like the one in the shop.
And then it was the decoration, well I didn't get any exact answer on that either. So then after a few more phone calls she said, "I trust you, all the cakes you make are always beautiful"  After she said this she got a lot more cake then she asked for, I am not very difficult to flatter :D  But back to the cake in the shop. The cake in the shop is actually a very simple cake called  Sancha cake, You can find it in almost all shops here in Moscow,it looks like a pyramid that somebody has thrown white and brown painting on. But it taste really delicious. So what I did to make  this white and brown painted pyramid cake in the shop to look like this, was to make a normal chocolate cake , take out all the soft parts inside the cake so it became a cake shell, cut the soft cake-parts into pieces and mixed it with sour cream-vanilla cream and pineapple and put it all back again.  She became very happy, I became very happy and hopefully somebody will get married and live happily ever after.
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Geisha

Sometimes some idea for a cake just pops into my head and I cant get peace in my soul until I have made it. This cake is one of those cakes. I have a friend named Ana-Maria  who is posting so much beautiful Japanese drawings and other stuff on Facebook . So I guess the idea actually started there, and then I started to remember some Japanese dolls my father brought from Japan from the days he was a sailor, I used to play with them when I was a child. The cake itself also has a small story . Also in my childhood my friends and i used to go to our neighbouring village and buy the best and the hugest ice cream you can imagen,   and what we normally used to order was  one scoop of chocolate ice cream and one scoop of pistachio ice cream, wonderfully and sinfully tasty. So this cake is in the memory of this wonderful ice cream. So the lowest cake is a Chocolate cake filled with pistachio cream with chopped pistachios, the top cake is a pistachio cake filled with chocolate cream with chopped airy milk chocolate.

So my dear Ana-Maria and my favourite ice cream this cake is in the honor of you guys <3 

Flying high

This cake I made for a boy who became 4 years old. I could make whatever I wanted. So this was what I ended up with. I wanted it to look like a children's drawing so I tried to remember how i was drawing in my childhood, and i guess it was something like this :) The cake itself is a mild Chocolate cake filled with raspberry  jam and a sour-cream raspberry mousse.

Mousse mousse and mousse

Mousse cakes are very popular here in Russia,and I can understand that of course they are delicious. And they are not really that complicated to make either. And the fun part about mousse cakes is that you can make them of any taste you like. I have tried out a lot of different taste and one of my favourites is these two cakes, a Chocolate mousse cake with dark and white chocolate on a nut meringue and a Blueberry yoghurt mousse on vanilla cake.

Testing Testing!

I am very fond of testing out new recipes and tastes. So this is one of my testing projects. I have for a long time seen  Whoopie pie recipes all over the net, and i have wanted to make them for a long time now. So finally i made them :) Another thing i have wondered how was tasting was Marshmallow Fluff . So i finally made that to. And  i have had this flavored oils  for some time and i haven't manage to try all of them out. So i off course had to try them as well.  So i made whoopie pies filled with  flavored marshmallow fluff. To be totaly honest i don't think i will make them again, they became so   sweet i really thought i got diabetes there and then. When i use American recipes i normally use less sugar, in these ones i did as well but still the became really sweet. Might be they would be better with a fresher filling. But still i manage to test out all the things i have wanted for a long time so i am still happy. The oils i tested  was banana flavor - very tasty,coconut flavor-my favorite, tutti frutti flavor- very children friendly,raspberry flavor- fresh and nice and cheese cake flavor- soft and round taste. I have also tested pistachio flavor- also one of my favorites,chocolate flavor- not tasty at all and orange flavor- fresh and nice taste.

Tasty test cake

A few weeks ago i sat and ate peanuts  when my friend served me a wonderful cup of cafe latte. With the taste of salted peanuts in my mouth i drank the cofe, and the taste that came was one of the best i have tasted in a long time. i would never thought that cofe and peanuts would taste so perfect together. That is the idea of this cake Chocolate cake filled with caramel, salted peanuts and a mocha cream. The mocha cream is made from a cofe chocolate, it tasted a lot of cofe and very nice. I have wanted for a long time to learn how to make this type of big roses, so after several you tube clips this is the result.   I have to practice more, but i had really a lot of fun making it. 

Birthday cake

This is a simple birthday cake for Dima who was turning 25.  It is a chocolate cake filled with berry mousse and chocolate cream.

Lamborghini

So here is another car cake,this time a Lamborghini. I never thought it would be s o difficult to make cars, i guess the most difficult part is to make them look the same on both side.It all start when you start to carve out the cake, just a few cm wrong cutting and you have to "glue" on some cake again. Especially on this car where it is so much details. And also very time consuming. BUT the great part is that is so much fun , i love to do all this small details , painting it in different colors and see it becoming more and more like a car(well, not always though) This cake is for a boy named Ilja for his 10 years birthday. He is playing a care game called Need for speed and his favorite car   is a Lamborghini. I used a car from the game as a model. I really hope he enjoys the car as much as his game ;)  The cake is made after Iljas choice, he wanted a Chocolate cake with cashew nuts filled with banana cream i also added a thin layer of light chocolate cream.

Bentley

This is the first car cake i have made. I was thinking that it cant be so difficult, but so wrong can a person be. And since it was was suppose to be a Bentley as well i was struggling a lot.  But i somehow manage to make a car that looked a bit like Bentley. But anyway the lady who i made it for became very happy , so then my cake heart also becomes happy. So this huge Bentley cake is made of 5 kg chocolate cake filled with pineapple mousse and chocolate cream. 

Thomas The Tank Engine

This is the first 3D cake i have made, it was not so difficult as i thought it would be. But a lot of work, but enjoyable work. It is not so easy to see it but the cakes  are really big, i think both of them together is like 6-7 kg. It is for a boy who becomes 5 years  old, and obviously his big hero is Thomas . His mother was very frighten that Thomas alone was to little cake , so late last night i made the wagon called Annie . Luckily i had a cake  and cream ready. So The Tank Engine Thomas is made of chocolate cake with cashew nuts filled with raspberry cream.Annie is made of plane chocolate cake filled with raspberry cream.  

Chocolate squares

This chocolate squares is actually cake balls in square shapes. The original  cake balls are kind of cool looking but i must say i like the squares much better. I mean it taste of course the same, but this ones looks so much more delicate.So thees Chocolate squares are full of roasted almonds ,sweet chocolate and a pinch of vanilla.

Big birthday cake

This cake is for the same birthday party as the one on the picture under. It is made of White mud cake with roasted hazelnuts filled with orange marinaded cherries and white chocolate cream. This mud cakes are really heavy just the top cake on this is weighing about 1,5 kg.I love the taste of white mud cake it has so soft taste to it, and a bit compact. I found a white chocolate here with roasted hazelnuts, so it gets a nice and nutty taste to the cake. 

This pillow cake is made of  White mud cake with cherry/orange/ white chocolate cream. It became so nice and fresh in taste, and the bright red cream inside looked really nice.

I must say i am a bit tired of the winter now. I really look forward to brighter and hotter days. But still i feel it is something magical about the winter, how the snow covers the nature in a white blanket. This magical winter wonderland cakes is made of  White chocolate cake  with caramel cheese-cream.