Saturday, October 24, 2009

devil's in the details....

Here's the start of my weekend project... If you remember back to my Fred Flintstone cake, it was a 3 layer 9" cake. It was way too much cake for a small family to eat. It also had chocolate ganache between the layers which made for a rich cake. Not that I'm complaining.
I bought a couple of 6" cake pans and used the same Devil's Food cake batter recipe. I put the small honey bear in the picture for reference. These bad boys are small but thick and dense. They'll sit in the refrigerator tonight and I'll slice them up tomorrow. I'm going to go with chocolate italian buttercream on one and ganache and chocolate fondant on the other. By the time I get 3 layers done, it may be as tall as it is wide. It should be interesting.
May the best cake win.... I'll need to find someone to take one of the cakes off my hands. As much as I would like to try, I won't be able to eat them both.