Why Is This Cake Different From All Other Cakes?
This year I spent the first night of Passover with a close friend and his family as I did last year. Much fun was had by all. This year however, I brought with me a dessert for the Seder meal.
Now, this cake is a first for me - a kosher for Passover pareve cake! Yes, it can be done!
I found a recipe for passover cake online, flavoured it with orange zest (if we're munching on anything next year in Jerusalem, it'll be jaffa oranges!) and then sandwiched two cake rounds together with orange buttercream (dairy free butter, of course).
For the fondant covering, I obviously couldn't use the normal recipe that I do. Instead, I used the marshmallow fondant recipe and adapted it. I picked up some kosher for Passover marshmallows and made some icing sugar. I had to make my own icing sugar, as the icing sugar one buys in the shop is mixed with cornstarch as an anti-caking ingredient. Fortunately, it's pretty easy to make your own kosher for Passover icing sugar:
1) Take regular sugar. 2) Place in blender. 3) Blend.
Works a treat!
This is why the fondant isn't the same brilliant white that my fondant normally is - I bake with unbleached sugar so my homemade icing sugar is a slightly golden colour.
The decoration was the fun part - I hope to do more cake art in the future that involves painting designs directly onto cakes. I need to buy a wider range of lustre dusts...
Around the edge it says "מה נשתנה הלילה הזה מכל הלילות", or "why is this night different from all other nights?". And then the large design on the top is a decorated Seder plate.
I had a lot of fun with this cake, it was very much an experiment in something new.
(Cross-posted from Boi Marie Cakes)
Now, this cake is a first for me - a kosher for Passover pareve cake! Yes, it can be done!
I found a recipe for passover cake online, flavoured it with orange zest (if we're munching on anything next year in Jerusalem, it'll be jaffa oranges!) and then sandwiched two cake rounds together with orange buttercream (dairy free butter, of course).
For the fondant covering, I obviously couldn't use the normal recipe that I do. Instead, I used the marshmallow fondant recipe and adapted it. I picked up some kosher for Passover marshmallows and made some icing sugar. I had to make my own icing sugar, as the icing sugar one buys in the shop is mixed with cornstarch as an anti-caking ingredient. Fortunately, it's pretty easy to make your own kosher for Passover icing sugar:
1) Take regular sugar. 2) Place in blender. 3) Blend.
Works a treat!
This is why the fondant isn't the same brilliant white that my fondant normally is - I bake with unbleached sugar so my homemade icing sugar is a slightly golden colour.
The decoration was the fun part - I hope to do more cake art in the future that involves painting designs directly onto cakes. I need to buy a wider range of lustre dusts...
Around the edge it says "מה נשתנה הלילה הזה מכל הלילות", or "why is this night different from all other nights?". And then the large design on the top is a decorated Seder plate.
I had a lot of fun with this cake, it was very much an experiment in something new.
(Cross-posted from Boi Marie Cakes)