The actuall cake recipes you can check here( the first part) and here( the second part).
Let me tell you before I start, that Christopher Kimball is a genius! It's official! I am raving about his book the Dessert Bible again.
I have read almost every book there is about cakes and I have to tell you this guy is amazing!!! Well, if you are not " follow the directions" kind a gal, look for another book.
I love him turning the kitchen into a science lab! He explains what, when, where, how and why that there is not a possible way of you making it wrong!
I wanted to try his cake recipes, but I didn't got the chance until now, but this time I made even 2 :-)
For the first layer I made his " Master recipe for All-Purpose Yellow cake", for the second layer " Devil's Food cake". Let me tell you- I have never ever made these two before. I have used only my Bulgarian recipes that are completely different from what is used here as layer cakes.
Both cakes turned out to be AMAZING! I made the lemon variation of the yellow cake and I used "Baker's chocolate" ( unsweetened) for the Devil's food.
These were the best, most moist, most fantastic cake layers I've tasted!
For the cream I made chocolate ganache from semi-sweet " Hershey's" chocolate chips and heavy whipping cream. I use slightly different recipe then the popular one.
If anybody is interested, I will post the recipes later.
So, I baked the cake, I froze it and cut the layers and then it was time to make it look like a space ship :-) I have found only one version of Buzz's ship online, but I didn't like it very much so I tried to improvise and follow the pictures I have of Buzz.
So, dark-yellow, yellow-dark...the layers are going up and at that point I began to realize how big is actually going to be :-)
I used home made decorator's icing with lemon flavor.
Now, whoever tells you a fondant cake is not supposed to be kept in the refrigerator, they don't know what they are talking about. The fondant cakes are not supposed to endure a big temperature change in a short period of time, that's all.
Back view:
And the back again:
-How to make a Buzz from fondant
http://www.anniesartbook.com/
- The finished Buzz figure-
http://www.anniesartbook.com/
- How to make Buzz's ship ( this is the one I think would be most use for for you, because you can see the shape of the layers)
http://www.anniesartbook.com/
- Decorating Buzz's ship
http://www.anniesartbook.com/
- The cake recipes ( yellow all purpose cake layer)
http://www.anniesartbook.com/
- The cake recipes 2 ( the Devil's food cake layer)
http://www.anniesartbook.com/
First off, I LOVE THIS CAKE!! This is the only one I could find any postings on that I really loved and wanted to make or actually copy, hope that is OK?! I realize this post is pretty old (looks like may of 2008), but would like to know the size of the pan used to bake the layers of cakes. Also, how many layers all together was there to form the rocket ship? My son's b-day is April 5th and would love to make this for him.
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Danyell
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Thank you Danyell, I am glad you like it! :-)
ReplyDeleteHere are the links to the posts I wrote for the cake layers especially, I have explained there the process etc.
The Yellow all-purpose layer :http://www.anniesartbook.com/2008/06/long-overdue-cake-recipes.html
Devil's food ( chocolate) layer:
http://www.anniesartbook.com/2008/06/long-overdue-cake-recipes-part-2.html
I baked recipe and a half of each and baked it in 9/11 rectangle pan.
This is a very informative article, keep the great blogs coming!
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