Monday, March 31, 2008

Perfect Party Cake





The Daring Bakers’ Challenge this month was to make a 4 layer party cake from Baking from My Home to Yours, by Dorie Greenspan. The cake and frosting had a hint of lemon in them. Thanks, Morven, for suggesting this challenge! I loved it!

The cake was light and lightly sweet on its own. But when I added the raspberry filling and buttercream frosting between the layers, it became heavenly!

The buttercream was a Swiss meringue buttercream, made by beating the sugar and egg whites over simmering water, and then adding the butter and flavors. The process was new to me, but it turned out great! I’ll definitely make this frosting again!

To finish it, I covered it with coconut. It was pretty and tasty at the same time. You don’t get much better than that!

9 comments:

T’s Treats said...

Lovely cake!! it looks fantastic, great job!!

Beth G. @SweetLifeKitchen said...

It looks great! Awesome job on this fabulous cake :)

Morven said...

Glad you learned a new technique along the journey. Your cake looks wonderful

Ann said...

Your cake layers are just perfect-looking!

JMom said...

beautiful cake! I will be definitely making this cake again as well. I loved the buttercream frosting.

JMom

Lunch Buckets said...

Nice job - your cake turned out great!

Big Boys Oven said...

this is lovely cake!

Marye said...

you did a great job...and learning a new technique is always satisfying. :)

Shelby said...

Nice job! Looks yummy!