Because I’m SURE you all want to hear about Jason’s birthday party
So I had two ideas for Jason’s cake. One was a blatantly sloppy and child like, as if Tim or Damian made the cake for Jay and it was clearly their first baking attempt. The other was to make a cake that would Alfred proud. Something elaborate, decadent and pretty.
In the end I decided to combine the two ideas.
I wanted to make a layered raspberry chocolate cake with raspberry preserves between the layers. I bastardized a Devil’s Food Cake recipe and threw a little Chambord, raspberry liquor, in it. Rather than icing the cake, I wanted to make a ganache flavored with the Chambord as well. Now, ganache, rather than traditional frosting, is a smooth sort of thick chocolate sauce that hardens after it’s poured on the cake. The effect is really very pretty with the streams of chocolate dripping down the sides.
The problem was, I was making this cake in 90 degree weather and the ganache kept melting. So I bastardized the ganache recipe by crossing it with a truffle frosting recipe to make a more traditional, spreadable frosting. It looked too plain after I iced it so I put the cute little fuffles all around the top.
Oh yeah, I'm the one with short hair in the grey shirt. Gloria's the one with long hair in the purple shirt. :D
Ignore the ugly top. D:
Gloria asked that I didn’t decorate the cake without her so that was as far as I got before I left for her place.
So I get to Gloria’s place and after much discussions of things that probably cannot be repeated in polite company, we got to the cake.
Gloria insisted that she needed to write on the cake as she had better handwriting. It was around this time that I learned many lessons:
Lesson 1: Never let Gloria touch icing. It gets everywhere.
Now, Gloria’s hands were a little shaky and she had CLEARLY never decorated a cake before so I took matters into my own hands and, terrible penmanship aside, wrote on the cake.
Lesson 2: Even when Gloria insists she can be responsible with the icing, do not believe her.
This is our reasonably decorated cake. Before we got, well, inventive. :D
Lesson 3: We are adorable when we have cake
Lesson 4: Never trust EITHER of us with excess icing. >:D
Lesson 5: Never leave a cake unattended in Wayne Manor.
Lesson 6: Especially don’t do it twice.
Lesson 7: Do not leave Tim and Damian in charge of picking birthday candles for Jason. They will get pink ones:
Lesson 8: Do not trust Gloria with fire:
The cake does, however, look prettier when Gloria sets it on fire:
Lesson 9: I am terrible at cutting cake:
Lesson 10: My Alfred’s cake is amazing:
Gloria has some better pictures here. She’s much better with a camera than I am. :O