The Idea: For my goddaughter's birthday, the request was, "pink, chocolate and strawberry, with emphasis on pink." Since I had some new recipes I was itching to try, I picked the one that had white chocolate frosting and a berry filling, filling 2 out of 3 requirements and had the advantage of becoming very pink.
Recipes used:
- Dogwood blossom wedding cake from myrecipes.com (1/2 recipe cake, Blackberry filling, white satin Frosting).
Alterations:
- Filling was made with strawberries rather than blackberries.
Lessons learned:
- This frosting is way too sweet. White chocolate is really hard to make into a good tasting frosting. I am not white chocolate fan. I am more of a dark, bitter chocolate fan. After this I decided to work on much less sweet frostings.
- The filling was good, but too much starch. I think using either less starch for the filling or using sugar with added pectin would work well here improving the taste.
- The cake recipe can be easily made with a few extra egg whites to lighten up the cake as well as 1/3 less sugar.
- I could have used 1/3 of the cake recipe for a 2 layer cake.
- Building a "dam" for the filling with frosting worked really well.
- I tried my cake decorating frosting gun and was relatively happy with the results. I wanted a Pampered Chef gun, but opted for a much cheaper locally available Westermark gun.
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