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.
2011-01-18
MLK Day 2011
We had the best meeting-anniversary weekend this year.

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

Coated in whipped cream, cocoa stencil.

Vanilla & chocolate genoise cake.

Cakes layered with chocolate ganache and multi-berry whipped cream.
Recipe when (if) I get to it, may be 2012!

And the best co-baker anyone could hope for.

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

Coated in whipped cream, cocoa stencil.

Vanilla & chocolate genoise cake.

Cakes layered with chocolate ganache and multi-berry whipped cream.
Recipe when (if) I get to it, may be 2012!

And the best co-baker anyone could hope for.
2010-01-17
MLK Cake 2010

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.

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.

Year the third

The best so far.

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.

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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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.
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