More Cake Testing

Today almonds are the star in GF Belly's Almond Cake.  Light and buttery, this base makes a delicious wedding cake when cloaked in Mocha Buttercream, layered with chocolate or whipped cream & berries.  A few years ago I created a glutinous almond cake for some dear friends, you can check out photos here; this will be the style of GF Belly Baking Co.'s wedding cakes, buttercream and fresh flowers.  T. and I we will simply eat it plain, okay not so plain, a light dusting of powdered sugar, fresh peaches and ice-cream.

Happy Summer!

Chocolate Cake & Buttercreams

The base to GF Belly's Chocolate Cake is none else than rich Valrhona Cocoa Powder & Dark Theo Chocolate

GF Belly's Chocolate Cake is delicious when paired with Brown Sugar Buttercream.  For wedding options you may prefer pure dark chocolate, in which case go for GF Belly's Chocolate Cake & Bittersweet Chocolate Buttercream.  If you are a milk chocolate lover, this cake is a fun choice when paired with our Milk Chocolate Buttercream.   For something clean and classic you can't go wrong with Vanilla Buttercream and if you are a fan of coffee than Mocha Buttercream may be your cup of joe!

Burning Beast 2012

Terra Plata Potatoes

Karen Jurgensen (my first Chef back during my Baci Artful Catering Days)  of Quillisascut Farm School had the best Goat Meatballs, my favorite Beast!!

Pinky's Pig

Terra Plata's Beef Heart Skewers, YUM!!  Sitting next to Karen's Goat Meatballs in pita.

Chef Tamara Murphy (my current Chef) of Terra Plata.

Cherry Bombs

 

In the midst of recipe testing! T. is enjoying these little beauties and he's named them Cherry Bombs.  The base is pure coconut: Coconut Sugar + Coconut Flour + Coconut Oil + Coconut Milk + Coconut and then there's the cherry.  Loaded with antioxidants, lauric & caprylic acid, also a great source of essential amino acids!  Dare I say, sweets with health benefits!?

Cake or Ice-Cream?

  

I was one of those kids that didn't like cake....cake or frosting for that matter!  I was (really still to this day) all about the ICE-CREAM!  Leave the cake, I'll take the ice-cream.


The only cake that I enjoyed as a child was spice cake and it HAD to have cream cheese frosting, not overly sweet vanilla buttercream....that never would have done, the frosting had to be made with cream cheese and butter.

I've developed a GF Spice Cake layered with (YES, you've guessed it!) Cream Cheese Buttercream, it's reminiscent of those childhood parties, you won't even notice that the gluten is missing.  If you are like me and love spice cake, this cake will be on GF Belly Baking Co.'s menu although dressed up a little differently than you see here...it will have three layers of spiced cake and it will be completely encased in fluffy cream cheese frosting.

I hope to be in the full swing of selling my goodies at local Farmers' Markets later this summer, now aiming for late summer/early autumn.