When i looked out the window yesterday it looked so gray,wet and cold. But after a big cup of cofee it looked so much brighter. So i decided to make a cake as a tribute to two of my favorite things that life has presented me with. Cofee and cake. This delicious cofee and cake is made of Vanilla-orange cake with strawberries and vanilla cream.

Here in Russia they put what we call cake into two groups, one is tort another is pirog. When i came here they always asked me "Julie, can you please make cake for us?" So i made cake, and they ate it and liked it . So finally after many months of making cakes for my friends,one  of them asked again " Julie , can you PLEASE make cake for us?" And i got a bit surprised because he was sitting there eating cake. And then he asked" Can you make cake with less dough in?" And then i finally understood that i have been making pirogs all the time not proper cake. So here is one more CAKE , not pirog, for my Russian friends. This is a Forest-berry mousse, with nut layer and topped with vanilla jelly.

So while i am working on my next cake project i decided to make some meringues. Small sweet meringues with a big cup of hot tea, mmm.
This are  Butterscotch meringues , the butterscotch makes a yummy toffee taste to them.

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.

Last night i had a dream that i where running trough a field filled with cherry trees in full blossom. When i woke up i could still feel the soft smell of cherry flowers. So i decided to make a cake that will remind me of this beautiful dream. This sweet dream is made of a Swiss-roll filled with honey cream, served with cherry sauce.

I simply love cakes, the sweet taste that fills the mouth when a small piece  touches the tongue, how it  makes a whole symphony of  loveliness dance around in your mouth. This is one of this cakes a Cappuccino mousse cake with caramel cream and French macrons.The taste of soft coffee,  fluffy caramel cream and the crispy macrons  really is heavenly.

A little bit of cake is lovely, a lot of cake is heavenly . Last week i made cake for 200 people. It became a lot of cake, and i mean a lot. I made 4 huge 6 kilos cakes and 3 mousse cakes. I decided it would be boring to just make the same taste on all of them so i made : 

Chocolate cake with chocolate orange cream

Caramel cake with roasted almond cream

Orange cake with cherry cream

White chocolate cake with apricot cream

The tree mouss cakes i made in cherry,mixed fruit and blueberry taste

 

Matrioshka cake, made of swiss-roll filled with chocolate-cream.

Orange cake with cinnamon cream.

This is birdmilk once again, this time in Christmas style. 

This is a chili-chocolate cake with orange and vanilla mousse.

This is a cinnamon cake with green tea cream, it is covered with marshmallow fondant.  

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

This is an orange mousse cake, decorated with chocolate and silverleaf.

Strawberry and cream cheesecake.  

This is a Norwegian desert with apples ,cream and sweet breadcrumbs. 

The Russian cake birdsmilk .

This is a few Indian sweets made from cashew-nuts and milk.

This is what the French would call  petit fours. It is different types of mini cakes and chocolates, a sweet small mouthful.

Strawberry cake with vanillacreame and chocolate on a crispy  chocolate chip cookie bottom.