This last weekend our (extended) family got together to celebrate not only Mother's Day (we have 6 moms in our PNW family) but also the 4 birthdays we have in the month of May. We got most of us together (about fourteen of us) for a family potluck dinner, gift exchange and dip in my condo's newly redone pool (nothing fancy but at least the pool is no longer crumbling under your feet).
We had crock pot lasagna, Hawaiian mac salad, fruit salad, chicken and rice baked mini burritos and more desserts than you could hope for (2 fruit pies, a lemon bar, chocolate ice cream with peanut butter sauce and a chocolate cake). - we asked each of the four birthday people what they wanted as their "special something".
My youngest sister (who turns 21 TODAY!) asked for a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and strawberry filling. What my baby sister wants she gets. So here's what I did for her.
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A trick I learned (Martha? Paula?) is to butter and dust your
cake pans with cocoa powder (for a chocolate cake) this way
you don't have the outsides coated in white flour. |
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| 3 POUNDS of diced strawberries later |
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1/2 of one cake round, chocolate frosting to seal the edges and prevent
strawberries from spilling out the sides |
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| Layer all the way up!! |
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| Crumb frosting layer |
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| ta-da!!! Strawberries on top and white pearls on the sides |
Sooo....how do you get the white pearls on the side of the cake? I have always wondered how people do that!
ReplyDeleteI don't know how the professionals do it...but I had a handful of pearls and smooshed them to the side...aka threw them at the cake and all over my kitchen!
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