Devil's Food Cake

"Another chocolate cake recipe, Jenna?" you may ask. The answer is yes. I have yet to find the perfect chocolate cake recipe and I will continue searching, tweaking, and taste testing!

This one is a Devil's Food cake, adapted from a Mr. James Crabb, on allrecipes.com

Moist Devil's Food Cake

1 1/2 cups water

2 cups sugar

3/4 cups butter

2 eggs

vanilla

2 cups flour

2 tsp baking soda

1/2 cup cocoa

1/2 tsp salt

Boil the water. Add the sugar. Stir until sugar is dissolved and cook for a moment longer.

Whip the butter. Slowly pour sugar water mixture into butter while beating. Beat until smooth.

Add vanilla and lightly beaten eggs into the sugar/butter mixture.

Sift in the remaining dry ingredients. Constantly scrape down the sides and beat until smooth and all the flour is incorporated.

Bake at 350 until toothpick comes out clean (30-45 minutes depending on pan)

Enjoy.

This cake is extremely creamy, moist, and wonderfully chocolate. It's not too dense or too chocolately.

Hope you have a great day! I know I will!

Mini cakes and individual deliciocity.

I'm taking the first step! I'm on the hunt for wedding cake pans. Namely, the large pans that can feed 50 people. I found a lady on craigslist selling pans for cheap with pillars to separate the layers. I'm excited to be taking the first steps towards accumulating all the necessary materials needed to make and create amazing wedding and celebration cakes.

What is the forecast for wedding cake trends? More colorful and big? Less traditional and more personalized? Or is the trend moving towards mini cakes? How cute are mini wedding cakes? The bride and groom get their own cake, big enough for them and then the guests each get an individual cake, maybe 3-5 inches tall and decorated. I am extremely embarrassed to say I have never made one and didn't make one before I wrote this, so I will have to resort to stock photos.

Courtesy of truly-scrumptious.me.uk

Courtesy of weddingcakepictures.blogspot.com

Wilton makes a individual cake pan that looks like a 3 tier wedding cake in mini form. I have that option or I could always just layer them, or make a 1 layer mini cake like the last picture.

Courtesy of bakingbites.com

Individual cakes would, in theory, cut time when serving cake at the wedding reception. In turn, the baker would have to prepare up to 500 mini wedding cakes for a wedding. One would either need a lot of room and help or would have to opt to only make mini cakes for smaller engagements.

Think about it- you attend a wedding and instead of getting a skimpy little piece of corner cake, you get your own individual cake, good for maybe 6-12 bites. I think it'd be a great trend to jump on. It would be something that would set a baker apart.

What every person needs, no matter the profession, is something to make their own. A trademark. I've been pondering such trademarks. Any person can make a cake but what about making a cake that has a unique flavor or shape? For instance--a woman makes cake pops---bite size pieces of cake on a lollipop. She then dips said pops in chocolate and decorates them exquisitely. Please check this woman's work out-- it's phenomenal.

http://www.bakerella.com/category/pops-bites/cake-pops/

What would be my trademark? As I was discussing in my post yesterday, a cohesive theme is necessary for people to grasp and in which to relate. I have my theme in mind but now need a great idea, a great project to attach to it. I thought it could be cheesecakes, but as I stated, any joe can make a cake.

Enjoy! I shall go pick up my pans this morning and I shall make my layer cakes. How fun!

Cheers-