Sunday, April 6, 2008
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| I can't believe it has already been 2 weeks since we went down for Paulie's birthday. Doesn't seem like it, but yet again... it does. Anyway... I had the honor of making Paulie's cake. Here is the recipe I used for the cake:  1 cup unsifted unsweetened cocoa powder 2 cups boiling water 2 3/4 cups sifted all purpose flour 2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp sea salt 1 cup softened butter 2 1/2 cups evaporated cane juice 4 large eggs 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract In medium bowl, combine cocoa with water, mixing with a wire whisk until smooth. Cool completely. Sift flour with baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Preheat oven to 350'. Grease well and lightly flour dish. In mixer, combine at high speed butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla until light, (5min.) scraping bowl occasionally. At low speed beat in flour mixture (in fourths) alternately with the cocoa mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Do not over beat! Pour into pan and bake fore about 45min. Check the center and then bake til done.  Paulie wanted a caramel chocolate cake. While we tried to think of ways to put the caramel into the mixture, but we instead came up with another way. I took our Tupperware cake decorator and poured caramel ice cream topping in it and put it into the cake like a filling. It worked great. When I made it for Paulie's party though, I didn't get to do it that way. I just ended up spreading the caramel on the cake and then taking the cake that stuck to the pan and kinda gluing it back on. That worked great. For frosting I usually buy the Betty Crocker Whipped frosting because it is so good and reasonably priced. But for Paulie's party, he wanted REAL whipped frosting. I do not have an exact measurement or recipe for it because I just stood beating it while Auntie poured in the ingredients, but I can give you what we used and you will just have to work it to your own liking! 1qt heavy whipping cream 1cup? powdered sugar 1tbsp vanilla extract Mix well until starts to look like frosting. It took about 30minutes, I think, for it to start to be the consistency we wanted. For decorations, Paulie really wanted white chocolate bars. When I first talked to him about his cake, he just wanted those in some sort of design. Then we talked about a skaterboard, or computer and then I  mentioned Tux, the Linux mascot , because Paulie love Linux and Tux. Before I went to TN, I made a mock cake to make sure I knew everything would go smoothly. Well I tried to make a tux with frosting, but there was NO WAY that was even remotely possible. I tried and failed greatly at it. So I was talking to Mom and Dad a few days before we were going to go and we were trying to figure out how we could do a Tux. Dad suggested see if one of the local chocolate shoppes could make one out of chocolate, but I thought that would be really hard to transport. Then I thought about going to the bakery and seeing if they could do a sugar paper thing. I went to the bakery at Kroger and asked about it. I had a picture of Tux on my phone and showed it to the lady. She told me that if I had a large printed picture of him they could do it. So I went and printed off the Tux I wanted and took it to the bakery. Well it was so COOL! Dad picked it up for me the next day and oh my! it was so awesome! All they did was scan the picture into their machine and printed it onto edible paper. Amazing! The actual edible paper even had the url and date on it from the printed picture. lol!  So Paulie had NO idea about this. We kept him out of the kitchen while we decorated the cake. I was a little worried about the way it looked because it was kinda faded. When I put it on the frosting and cake though, it sorta melted into it a  nd looked perfect!I put that on there, we wrote in orange gel for him, and then I stuck his white chocolate bars into the sides... Yeah a little weird. The joke on those are they are skaterboards that he kicked into the cake... lol Here is what the finished product looks like. Everyone raved it, but I was not so enthusiastic about it. Thank goodness Paulie liked it. I guess that was all that matter! :)  There is my cake baking excursion. The cake recipe is a really good one and so was the frosting. Let me know if you try the recipe! Thanks to Timothy and Levi for some of the pictures. :D Be Blessed!! As Always,  Find me here: The Daily Planet |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008
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| It is adorable! I am so glad your brother liked it and I bet it was yummy!!!!
God's Blessings, Amy Jo |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008
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oh that is very cute Amanda.... I love making birthday cakes. Mom made me one this year that was sooooo pretty!!!! I'll have to send you a picture sometime. Great job... it looks so tasty..and very nice idea for the Tux.... it looks really nice. Brielle |
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Monday, April 7, 2008
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| Mmmm, it looks so good and sounds good too! I could eat the icing all by itself. |
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008
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 Posted by HandmaidenAlli |
| I wanted 2 try chocolate cake for my birthday. Unfortunatly my uncle is allergic to chocolate. I may try this for my birthday or I may try white cake with chocolate frosting. If U have n e recipes for chocolate frosting could u post them 4 me.
Independence babe(my birthday is on July 4) ;) |
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Wednesday, April 9, 2008
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| Posted by PaulsBlogging.com |
| Yay! Haha, that came out so well!
And it was SO good and moist! That was THE coolest cake I've ever seen. :D |
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
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| That is so cute.
~Mary-Ann~ |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008