When Cakes Go Vertical!

For this class, the primary goal was plating and decorating. The cake used was a pound cake. The finished product was a Cherry Pie Cake Stack!

Pan used for cake

 

Making of the pound cake

Cake out of the oven

Cake to be cut out with the stack cylinders

Don't have a stack cylinder? Don't worry! Improvise by using a tin pop can with the ends removed. Make sure to check for metal splinters. Or in our case, we used dry measures to cut out our desired sizes.

Cake cut out with dry measure

Whipping up heavy cream

Cherry pie filling

The whipping cream and cherry pie filling are used to decorate the cake! To prepare the whipping cream, first pour 250ml heavy cream in a cooled 500ml liquid measure. Whip it up with an electric mixer!

 

 

Add final details with chocolate syrup!