Category: Cakes

This strawberry cake is my friend Paul’s favorite. And I can agree, once you start eating it, something about the sweet strawberry, slightly cereal-like flavor makes it hard to stop. Doubled up on strawberry here with strawberry sponge with strawberry buttercream. I use both fresh strawberries and freeze dried. It’s definitely sweet but perfect for…

For the same wedding, my friends were leaning towards chocolate and decadent, so I knew one of the cakes and to be double chocolate. This is where I perfected my favorite chocolate sponge and paired it with chocolate butter cream and espresso buttercream and espresso mousse filling. And you can’t forget the chocolate espresso crunch.

This was one of two cakes I baked for my friends’ wedding. It’s an earl grey sponge with lemon cream cheese frosting. I steeped earl grey in the butter cream and used tea leaves in the batter. The first trial bake was caffeinated, but we switched to caffeine free for the real thing.

This year I baked my first three tiered cake… for my own wedding. It was a bold undertaking, but I don’t like to half ass anything. I used my favorite chocolate sponge recipe, both chocolate and vanilla butter cream, and espresso mousse. It was absolutely delicious and certainly the best of the THREE desserts.