Showing posts with label mlk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mlk. Show all posts

2012-01-17

MLK Cake 2012

Martin Luther King Jr cake for 2012, J & my 7th meeting-anniversary, and 8th MLK Cake.


Raspberry cake with vanilla butter-cream frosting and chocolate glaze.












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2005 carefully icing cake 3 days after meeting the love of my life

2006-2007 lost on an old hard drive somewhere

2008 mlk cake 2008

2009 MLK cake 2009

2010 mlk cake 2010

2011 MLK Cake 2011



2011-01-18

MLK Day 2011

We had the best meeting-anniversary weekend this year.

MLK Cake 2011

Among other things, a return to simple, tasty, unambitious, portrait stencil cake. (Those cupcakes? Nearly the death of me.)

sliced MLK Cake 2011

Coated in whipped cream, cocoa stencil.

MLK Cake 2011 interior

Vanilla & chocolate genoise cake.

MLK Cake 2011 slices

Cakes layered with chocolate ganache and multi-berry whipped cream.

Recipe when (if) I get to it, may be 2012!

adorable baker

And the best co-baker anyone could hope for.

2010-01-17

MLK Cake 2010

mlk cake

Jevan and I met on January 15th, 2005 that weekend, and every anniversary since, has fallen on the Martin Luther King Jr holiday. The first weekend we baked a cake together together (we got domestic very quickly.) Love and lust drunk we decided to make it black & white swirled, with red/pink frosting in the middle, to symbolize harmony and the insides we all share.

This is our fifth year together, and fifth cake.

gleefully icing cake
The first year

We either didn't take pictures of the second year, or they're on some hard drives I need to hook up and transfer pictures from.

mlk cake 2008
Year the third

mlk cake 2008
The best so far.

MLK cake 2009
The fourth, in which I learned a valuable decorating lesson.

I'm just a tad bitchy and judgmental about cupcakes (aren't they so 2006/2007?) BUT, I woke up from a dream, knowing how I could get the design for this years' cake right, and if it involves cupcakes--so be it.

The Idea: mlk cake 2010 draft
I woke up Sunday morning thinking of this and rushed to draw it before my mind blanked. Now to see how we can execute it.


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mlk cakes

Not the worst, but I learned several more important lessons in decoration, the first of which is marzipan is a bitch to work with.

I hope everyone had a fantastic MLK Day, and remembered "don't be a dick" not to anyone, not if they look different and not if they think different; "don't be a dick" is an imperative.

Recipe to follow.

2008-01-23

ebony & ivory



Jevan & I met over the MLK holiday.
That 1st weekend, and every year since, we bake a black & white (sometimes pink inside, sometimes swirled) cake to commemorate.
This year's cake was chocolate genoise, filled with white-chocolate Grand Marnier ganache, frosted w/ whipped cream, stenciled doctor in cocoa powder.