Cakes Day 4

Today we made a citrus cake. It is made with lemon-lime pound cake, lime buttercream, and lemon-lime curd. This is my favorite cake we make in the class.

Here are the step-by-steps for the cake.

1. The chef's description of how our cake should be put together.

2. Here is the chaotic set up, and the first layer. The cake is soaked with lemon simple syrup, and a dam is built up out of buttercream.

3. The dam is filled with the curd.

4. The next layer is added.

5. Another buttercream dam and more curd.

6. Another layer.

7. A big blob of buttercream on top.

8. It is roughly smoothed, and buttercream is added to the sides.

9. The buttercream is fully smoothed, and decorated. In this case, with graham cracker crumbs.

10. We mark portions, and add a buttercream rosette to each piece.

11. A piece of candied lemon peel is added to each rosette.

12. A buttercream rose is put in the middle.

13. Buttercream leaves are the finishing touch. And....TaDa!