I won't tell you what year it was for her, but I made her a cake using her favorite flavors- cherry and dark chocolate. It was harder than I thought to find a good recipe or inspiration for this cake, so I was kind of on my own. Luckily it was a combo that would be hard to mess up.I got a box mix of dark chocolate cake, maraschino cherries, dark chocolate, and buttercream frosting ingredients. Baked the cake as usual, made the buttercream with cherry extract and LOTS of juice from the maraschino cherry jar for flavoring. That gave the icing a pretty light pink tint and lots of cherry flavor, better than the extract!
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| Chopped maraschino cherries |
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| THE best product on the market. |
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| See what I mean? They weren't even 100% cool |
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| Another product sent from the heavens |
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| First layer of buttercream |
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| Add chopped maraschino cherries |
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| Add second layer and ice |
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| Smoothed out to look like fondant but tasty |
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| Super dark (maybe too dark) chocolate |
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| Fancy pants |
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| Some decoration |
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| My freestyle icing is wicked good sometimes |
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| Chocolate shavings on top |
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| Mom with her cake (& in her pjs.. sorry for putting this online, Mom!) :) |
