Upcoming: November

Well, this October was somewhat unsatisfying as far as making cakes go.  I was planning on making a Halloween themed cake, but you kind of lose the time to do those things when your boyfriend gets into a bike accident (he's fine by the way).  Instead, I'm looking to November to make some cakes or at least one cake for a birthday.

Hmm, I guess I'll ask you few followers of my blog if you can think of any reasons I should make a cake this next month that isn't for a birthday or Thanksgiving-related.

White Chocolate Chocolate Raspberry

I made a chocolate cake with raspberry filling and white chocolate frosting for a birthday celebration.  The celebration didn't go quite as planned, so I have a slight idea of what this cake tastes like based on the scraps and leftovers, but I did not get the pleasure of trying a slice of it.  I started by making a chocolate cake mix in my 9 inch round cake pans.  I let those bake and cool while trying to catch up on my work and chores.  I then received a text saying that the celebration was going to start at six, and looking at the clock and seeing that it was 4 already jolted me into action as I had no idea where the time had gone.

My room mate was kind enough to offer help, so I had her make up the raspberry filling for the cake, which ended up being a sort of homemade jam.  While she did that, I made up the frosting, which I barely had enough of, because I was low on my supply of powdered sugar.  I made my basic butter cream frosting and added half a bag of melted white chocolate chips to it to give it a white chocolate flavor.

To assemble the cake, I first cut the cake rounds so they were level on the top.  Next I cut each round horizontally, so it turned the two layers into four layers.  In between the first two layers, I put the raspberry jam filling.  Next I put a layer of the white chocolate frosting and finished with the other two layers of cake with raspberry filling in between.

I covered the whole cake with the rest of my frosting, and in my speed to get the frosting on, the super moist cake decided it wanted to break off causing a crummy mixture of frosting and cake around the edges of the cake.

I took some leftover raspberries and decorated the top of the cake to finish it off.  Upon reaching the destination, I discovered that the celebration was cancelled, so I left the cake for the birthday girl to enjoy when she got the chance.