Friday, February 11, 2011

Birthday cake,


Tomorrow my fiancee turns a year older. For that special day, I baked him a birthday cake as it has been tradition last 2 years :) This time I tried to make a bit different cake. I never have used marzipan lock before and as they say, better late than never :) So, I thought that why not to give it a try.

Sponge was made yesterday after my work day.  Recipe for that I took again from Manuela's blog. Only difference from her sponge was, that I used bigger baking form and instead 1/4 teaspoon almond essence, my sponge has 1 whole teaspoon of almond essence :) Accidents happens. I just forgot myself to pour it on spoon :D

Since sponge was made yesterday, then all other part was left for today :) Now it is done and waiting in fridge tomorrow, so that I can give it to my dear Fiancee. 

For first layer in his cake I used fresh homemade strawberry pure, what I made summer and had it in freezer.

Top of that I added vanilla cream and new layer of sponge.

New layer I filled as well first with strawberry jam and vanilla cream. 

Top of that I made a cream, what was not that sweet. For that I used 3 dl whip-cream and 125 gr. quark. First I whipped cream hard and added quark. I mixed it slowly with spoon a little. 

After that I added last layer of sponge and covered all that with white marzipan lock.

Decorating cake was easy. There everyone can just let their imagination loose and it comes out as you want it come out. My result looked out like that:




No comments: