Hubby celebrated his birthday recently and so it was time to get creative with another birthday cake. I forgot to take a 'before' photo, so here it is sans candles and several slices!
This time a chocolate cake, with yummy homemade raspberry mousse filling, courtesy of a Danish recipe I found here. I used a different chocolate cake recipe though, one I've used previously and knew would be OK - it contains melted dark chocolate plus Dutch cocoa. I probably overdid it with four layers - it was very tall, ha ha!
Three layers with more of the mousse filling as per the Cakejournal recipe might have worked better, so next time I'll do this instead.
However it was a delicious cake, not too sweet at all. None of us are overly keen on very sweet frosting/icing so I also used whipped cream to decorate the top and a sprinkling of some more chocolate (actually a broken up 'Flake').
What a fabulous cake! My middle daughter had her 16th Birthday last week. Happy Birthday to G from us all here at Mad Bush Farm
ReplyDeletevery nice - well done!
ReplyDeleteThanks Liz. Wow 16 already!
ReplyDeleteThanks Amy, needless to say for a big cake it's been demolished fairly quickly!
You 'tease' with that photo! I'm drooling! Looks delish! Happy birthday to your hubby.
ReplyDeleteA great big happy birthday to him! That looks and sounds like one amazing cake. I love layer cakes. They're so fun.
ReplyDeleteSorry about that Mrs Mac :-)
ReplyDeleteI've actually never made a layer cake before, don't know why!
ReplyDeleteIt was a very big cake though so I think we need to go on one of your long hikes now!! :-)
(above comment @BLD in MT)
ReplyDeleteBelated Birthday wishes to your husband. He surely must have been delighted with that layered cake. I love the sound of the raspberry mousse too. Four layers is not over-doing it - its impressive. I've never attempted a cake with so many layers, so am real impressed.
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