Gingerbread Madness!

Surely gingerbread is more associated with Christmas than with Thanksgiving, but hey; I already had a traditional pumpkin pie, why would I want to make ANOTHER pumpkin dessert?! That is simply outrageous. So instead I decided upon a gingerbread cake with a lovely cream cheese icing filling & covered in vanilla buttercream which was dusted with cinnamon!

Happy Gingy

Gangs all here!

that was my father's piece :)

Early November Cake Practice

Hello followers! :)
Sorry I have been so busy working at a retail store; and well, I am sure you are aware of how OUTRAGEOUS people can get the closer it is to Christmas. Anywho, after Halloween I had a mass amount of candy left over to I decided to incorporate it into a cake I decided to make for my coworkers.

So I baked a white vanilla cake with crushed up: Kit Kats, Whoppers, and Hershey Bars. I also whipped up a vanilla french buttercream to coat the outside of the cake to help the fondant stay in place. To make buttercream you boil sugar and water to 145 degrees (brushing off sugar crystals from the side of the pan with a brush dipped in water, then pouring the hot sugar into your egg yolks while beating quickly [which is why you cannot see the whisk]Then after it cools you add butter & shortening until it becomes the right consistency)

For the Icing I had a delicous cream cheese icing that I had added REAL vanilla bean to. So to decorate this four layer beauty, I draped chocolate fondant on it and decorated with chocolate royal icing.

What I will work on for next time: I need to buy dowels to hold my cake in place so it doesn't shift and of course my fondant work. See you soon with my Thankgiving contributions!!

Megan (: