Hi, I am making a birthday cake for my best friends 33rd birthday. She is the absolute best friend so I want to make it really special. I was wondering what your most requested cake and filling combination is? Wanna do something cool but don't want to ask her questions and ruin the surprise. Thanks.
Lemon cake with strawberry cream cheese. I add chopped strawberries. Not the jelly.
Red V. with cream cheese
Chocolate cake with mocha
I was going to ask the same thing.
For me it is red-velvet is the wedding winner.
For birthday cakes, seems like vanilla is a favorite.
I personally love lemon, but have never had a request for it.
BTW. I am a hobby baker for friends and family, with an occasional referral here and there. I'm sure the business side is different.
Vanilla with strawberry mousse is also a good one.
chocolate with white chocolate ganache filling iced in buttercream
For birthday cakes my most request flavor is white velvet with SMBC. Second most requested chocolate WASC with chocolate ganache. I love the orange dreamsicle WASC. It is so yummy!
of course not, but I must warn you I'm not a scratch girl!
white choc. raspberry cake:
1 box white cake mix
1 small box instant white choc. pudding (dry)
1-1/3 c. water
1/3 c. veg. oil
3 lg. egg whites
6 oz. white choc. (I use baker's brand and it comes in a 6 oz. bar)
1-2 tsp. raspberry extract (or 2-3 capfuls of lorann raspberry oil) depends on how strong you like the raspberry flavor.
Mix everything but the white chocolate together. Then shave the white choc. into the cake batter using a vegetable peeler and fold it in with a spatula. Bake per normal cake mix directions.
Because you're folding the white choc. into the batter, you get these little pockets of white chocolate throughout the whole cake, I found when I used white choc. chips or even added melted and cooled white chocolate to the batter the white choc. always sunk to the bottom of the cake, with the shavings it stays suspended in the cake batter nicely throughout the baking process.
Cheesecake mousse:
2 c. liquid Rich's bettercreme non-dairy vanilla icing (pink carton)
1 c. whole milk
1 small package cheesecake instant pudding mix
Whip the Rich's bettercreme w/ the pudding mix until you get stiff peaks, then gradually add in the 1 c. of milk while continuing to beat.
this is fabulous just piped into a choc. cup too or eaten with a spoon! YUMMMYYYYY
Also, it's safe at room temp. for up to 5 days so it's awesome for wedding cakes!!
enjoy
Add 2 heaping tablespoons creamy peanut butter to that cheesecake mousse - and it's to die for. I use that on my dark chocolate fudge cake with chocolate smbc. Mmmm, Mmmm - I don't sell cakes really, but it's my personal fave.
I would definetly do KHalstead's recipe,
I just did one similar but I also added Chambord liquer to the mix. For the filling I used "Rasberry Chambord Filling", it's posted here on CC, but I had to use fresh strawberries since there were no rasberries at the store. The recipe also calls for the Rasberry Purre to soak the cake layers, and I also added Chabord liquer to it as well. I made this cake for my dear neighbor that was turning 43, and boy did everybody loved it. My sister requested this same recipe for her wedding cake, I was so amazed because she always has to find something wrong with recipes that I try for the first time.
For birthday cakes my most request flavor is white velvet with SMBC. Second most requested chocolate WASC with chocolate ganache. I love the orange dreamsicle WASC. It is so yummy!
What's white velvet cake? Of course I've seen red and pink, but what constitues a cake to be "velvet"?
Thanks for the recipe can't wait to make it. Just one ? what is the Rich's non-dairy stuff and where do I get it? Sorry to be such a bother I just really wanna try it!
I get mine at Gorden Food Service GFS, you can buy it already whipped at Sam's club in a big bucket or you can buy it at some grocery stores as well depending on where you live.
Rich's bettercreme is the whipped cream style frosting that bakeries use on their cakes (like wal-mart and grocery stores too), it's a much fluffier and lighter, less sweet icing than regular buttercream. It comes in a carton (like milk) the old fashioned paper cartons you know, and it's liquid like heavy whipping cream is.
I actually use it in place of heavy whipping cream too, I needed cream and didn't have any so I made ganache using the rich's bettercreme and it was awesome!
I'm curious about this bettercreme stuff too. I'm in Canada and have never seen it. I wonder if it's the same as Nutriwhip which comes in a carton in the refrigerator section but is basically a stable whipping cream? Any ideas?
Thanks for all the cool idea's! It's super helpful because it takes into consideration different tastes. KHalstead - I'm definitely not a "scratch" girl either (two boys one 4 and at home all day). I will call around and see. I'm in Chandler, Az so someone's gotta have it!
of course not, but I must warn you I'm not a scratch girl!
Cheesecake mousse:
2 c. liquid Rich's bettercreme non-dairy vanilla icing (pink carton)
1 c. whole milk
1 small package cheesecake instant pudding mix
Whip the Rich's bettercreme w/ the pudding mix until you get stiff peaks, then gradually add in the 1 c. of milk while continuing to beat.
this is fabulous just piped into a choc. cup too or eaten with a spoon! YUMMMYYYYY
Also, it's safe at room temp. for up to 5 days so it's awesome for wedding cakes!!
enjoy
Have you tried making chocolate mousse? If so, do you use the chocolate flavored Rich's with chocolate pudding?
Khalstead,
Is your standard mousse recipe/base 2 c. rich's, 1 box pudding mix and 1 c whole milk? Does it come out light and fluffly? When do you add other ingredients or don't use the pudding, if at all?
I'm looking for a good basic recipe that I can use all the time just changing out the pudding flavor and/or adding other flavor items to give flavor.
Also, thanks for the White Choc. Raspberry recipe. I will try it this weekend.
I used to live in Arizona and you could get Pastry Pride...pretty much the same thing as bettercream....at Smart and Final.
My most requested is my "Arnold Palmer". A black tea flavored cake with a lemonade buttercream. It is so good!!!
I am making a WASC cake with cheesecake and Apricot fillings for a function tomorrow. It is supposed to be amazing...I'll let you know after I try it!
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