Very basic LEGO cake

The municipal of the town we live in had threatened to shut down my daughter’s kindergarten. Miraculously, the politicians changed their mind, allowing 4 adults to keep their jobs and 30 children to keep their routines. That rather called for a cake.

In my experience children like chocolate cake, so that’s what they got:

250 grams of sugar beaten with 4 eggs until white. Add 250 grams of melted butter. Stir in gently 200 grams of flour and 50 grams of cocoa powder and 2 tea spoons of baking powder + 150 grams of chopped chocolate. Bake for 40 min at 175 degrees

Covered in 1:1 chocolate ganach:

200 ml of boiling cream poured over 200 grams chopped dark chocolate. Let sit for a little while, then stir until smooth. Let chill until it has the same feel as soft butter. Cover the cake and let chill before covering the cake in marzipan or fondant.

I covered the cakes in white fondant, and then I made as many LEGO bits as I could within an hour and then off to bed.

Unstacked cake with 50 roses for Tuscan wedding

This I will NEVER do again!

Some of our very dear friends were getting married in Tuscany this summer and they had very kindly asked if I would do the honour of baking the wedding cake. I proudly and gladly accepted. 

As my darling husband later remarked: You hadn’t really thought it through (he’s a kind man, and he was putting it mildly…): A new oven, someone else’ kitchen, little refrigerator space, two children to look after, 50 fondant roses to be made by hand, three stand alone mousse based cakes, all ingredients to be transported from Denmark to Italy, including 8 kilos of fondant, 30 degrees lovely Tuscan autumn days and a three days fabulous full on wedding….. I confess that I was a trifle stressed.

The bride was pleased, so mission completed:

The picture were taken by one of the guests: Henry Gibbs, who did rather a job of that.

The cakes consisted of:

Three thin cake sheets (2 eggs whisked white with 80 grams of sugar + 70 grams of flour, a pinch of salt, ½ tea spoon vanilla sugar and ½ tea spoon baking powder. Spread out on baking paper covered baking tray and bake for 6-8 minutes at 200 degrees). X3.

Layer of chocolate mousse:

150 grams of chocolate melted in water bath. Add 2 egg yokes. Carefully add 2 egg whites whisked stiff with 1 table spoon sugar. Whip 2 dl cream and add to chocolate. X3.

Layer of lemon mousse:

Beat 3 whole eggs with 100 g of sugar. Add 4 leaf of gelatin, which has been melted in a water bath + at least 1 tea spoon lemon zest and ½ dl of lemon juice. When nearly stiff gently add ¼ liter whipped cream. X3