Brain Cake

This is what happens when you are a psych major/baker.

Puzzle cake

My roommate and I celebrate strange occasions. This is a cake she made for me for ending my volleyball season. This is not to say that I didn't deserve a cake, but most people don' t get cake for those kind of things. Anyway, really we just like to test our skill and critique each other. I have to say, this was pretty damn impressive. So the layers you see are chocolate and vanilla chiffon cake (chiffon is a mix of sponge, or air leavened, cake and artificial leavening such as baking powder). The layers of frosting are a Swiss Buttercream, which I really have to say is much preferable over the French and Italian. The cake gets layered into 4 layers and then you cut a cone from the center. Set the cone aside, take the rest of the cake and flip it over. Pus down so what was once the the inside wall is now the bottom. You want to frost one more layer and place this weird trapazoid thing on that. Then frost the inside and put the cone back in. What you should get is some layers going diagonally and some horizontally. Then cut the edges to be square and frost. It doesn't look special from the outside but the inside is spectacular.

Bread day

So this is what happens when we need bread around the house! Left to right: sesame and poppy bagels on the bottom and ciabatta on top, everything bagels, challah, epi, baguette, fougasse, rosemary salt bagels and cinnamon sugar bagels