Wedding Cake Tasting - Day One: The Cakes

Why hello again, it's been a while, and for that I am profoundly sorry.

Apparently step one of doing a wedding cake tasting is take a bunch of pictures of the cakes you made and then, while you transfer said pictures to your computer your cat jumps up on to the keyboard and presses something, I don't know what, and deletes EVERYTHING. E.V.E.R.Y.T.H.I.N.G.

Luckily, the bride had some trouble making up her mind about the decorations she wanted so there will be photos! (Thank goodness)



Anyhoo

Step one for me was figuring out flavours, my final combinations were as follows:

Chocolate Cake:

• Chocolate Filling
• Raspberry Filling
• Vanilla Filling
• Salted Caramel Filling
• Mint Filling

Vanilla Cake:

• Chocolate Filling
• Raspberry Filling
• Vanilla Filling
• Salted Caramel Filling
• Mint Filling
• Peach Filling
• Lemon Filling

Lemon Cake:

• Vanilla Filling
• Lemon Filling
• Raspberry Filling

Banana Cake:

• Chocolate Filling
• Vanilla Filling
• Raspberry Filling

On day one, I baked all of the cakes. The different flavours are all variations on the same recipe and ended up making more than I intended to make, so there were quite a few left over cupcakes to bake as well

Chocolate Cake

250g Butter replacement

200g Sugar

4 Eggs

1 tsp Baking Powder

150g Almond meal

50g Corn meal

75g Cocoa Powder

Vanilla Cake:

250g Butter replacement

200g Sugar

4 Eggs

1 tsp Vanilla bean paste

1 tsp Baking powder

150g Almond meal

50g Corn meal

50g Rice flour

Lemon Cake

125g Butter Replacement

100g Sugar

2 Eggs

Zest from 2 lemons + 2 Tbsp Juice

1 tsp baking powder

75g Almond meal

50g Corn meal

Banana Cake

125g Butter Replacement

100g Sugar

1 Egg

1 Mashed banana

1 tsp baking powder

75g Almond meal

50g Rice flour

1. Cream the butter and sugar together
2. Beat in the eggs one at a time
3. Add dry ingredients and stir until combined
4. Grease and line 12 7.5cm ceramic, straight sided ramekins
5. 3/4 fill the ramekins (and put left over mix in a lined cupcake tray)
6. Bake at 180 C for 20 minutes or until firm in the centre
7. While they're cooking, clean up and start the next batch. If you're me, set a timer otherwise you'll have to make an extra batch of whichever ones you forgot about until they burnt.

Come back next week for Day Two, The fillings