Quaker City 2014

       

For the Quaker City Regatta that is hosted annually by the Fairmount Rowing Association I made 2 cakes with the Quaker City logo on top.  When you sliced the cakes open, the cross section had an "F" (for Fairmount) made of out chocolate and vanilla cakes.  Here's how it was made:

The cake was made with 4 layers, each of which was composed of 3 concentric circles of chocolate and vanilla cake.  For each layer I made 2 cakes (1 chocolate & 1 vanilla), cut out a donut of appropriate size, and then switched the donut shaped piece so that the outside and inside circles were the same flavor and the donut was the opposite flavor. 

                           Layer 1                                    Layer 2                                 Layer 4
        
 Layers 1 & 3 had the same pattern (outer rim, thin donut, inner circle) and layers 2 & 4 had the same pattern (outer rim, thick donut, small inner circle).  I used smaller cake pans and water glasses to trace the circles.

For the 13” pan I used, it is necessary to cut the outer and donut pieces at least into half to transfer them, but just put a bit of frosting in between and they will hold together fine.  Also put a thin layer of frosting at all of the seams to help bind them together.  A thin layer of frosting between the cake layers also helped bind it together.

The chocolate frosting was a chocolate sour cream frosting and the white frosting was a white chocolate cream cheese frosting.  The Q was again traced using a smaller cake pan and then filled in using a small spatula, the writing and outside decorations on the cake was piped on.

 Surprise!

Washer Cake

Tom kept dropping and loosing washers when he was fixing the rigging on the Keiffer 4+ and we were joking about making a cake about it...so I did.

It was very hot so I didn't feel like baking and instead I made a simple refrigerator cake using Nabisco chocolate wafers and whipped cream.  It's very easy and the recipe is even on the box; just spread whipped cream between each cookie and stack them together.  The cookies absorb the moisture of the whipped cream and turn cake-like with some whipped cream remaining between each layer.  Delicious!  I just arranged the cookies in a circle like this:

and then covered the whole "cake" with grey whipped cream and piped onto the top with a slightly darker whipped cream.