Cleveland Cassata [aka Boyfriend's First Baking Project]

[stuberyl]

And so it came to pass that in April of 2011, Bort was due to celebrate another birth anniversary. And for this reason, the Russian wanted to do something special in commemoration. There is a tradition, in the brothers' family, to celebrate birth-anniversaries with a cassata cake from Corbo's Bakery in Cleveland. After first considering and

Comments

[fj]

Scoring the cake slightly with a knife and then using sewing thread always seemed like the way to go to cut a layer in two.

[stuberyl]

Thanks, that hadn't occurred to me. I'll try it next time, but maybe with dental floss since I'm not sure I have any thread around.

[littleredmistic]

Yummmmy! Another master-piece ♥

[stuberyl]

Thanks!

[evilgrins]

constantly amused you call your guy 'the Russian'.

What did you call me?

[stuberyl]

Well, you have a built-in nickname, so I just used your LJ username.

[evilgrins]

I feel oddly disappointed

[ejia_arath03]

Butter is the way, the truth, the life.

But this cake has custard, which is an acceptable compromise. Besides, it looks delicious! So many layers!