Thursday, January 5, 2017

Baking: Cake Towers

Here are two more cake videos. Hooray!

I made this first cake when I got new cake tools for Christmas. I had about two hours of footage, but I trimmed it down to 41 seconds for you (#selfcontrol). It's probably the best cake I've ever made; especially the exterior. The inside is buttermilk cake, which I've never even heard of, and it tasted incredible. The recipe (here!) is from Vanilla Bean Blog. I made honey-cinnamon frosting, and it was too sweet, so it ruined the cake. But the cake itself and the outside were fun.

https://vimeo.com/196974275




I made this second cake for my roommate's birthday. I invented the frosting recipe, which was the first recipe I'd ever made up completely on my own! The cupcakes are for allergy friends, and we bought them from Gigi's.

https://vimeo.com/196920823




The Summer Shadow: Behind the Scenes

The past few months, I've been preparing for my summer project. Here's a sneak peek at a few quotations that I hoped to tack somewhe...