Lovely raspberry white chocolate cake that I can assure you is delicious.
The Ways of a Sweet Hearts Baker
Hi! My name is Lauren and I am an intern learning the ropes at Sweet Hearts Patisserie in Annapolis Maryland. Using this blog, I intend to share with everyone all that I learn, as well as some beautiful pictures of all the wonderful goodies we sell at our amazing little shop!
Petit fours are a very diligent process. I personally did not make them but these delicious morsels were made yesterday and I got to watch HOW they were made so now I get to share with the world. You bake cake, let’s say for the sake of this conversation it’s a red velvet cake, very thin on several sheet pans. You let the cake cool then you layer it: cake, buttercream frosting, cake, buttercream frosting, cake. Finally comes a layer of fondant icing which is carefully drizzled over the topas to cover the entire cake. Then comes the design and there you have it, a petit four!
Maple bacon cupcakes. Need I say more? They sold out the day we made them.
On Thursday I learned how to make flourless chocolate cake. First I’d like to note that making any baked good without flour is really awesome to me because nearly everything else I can think of requires at least some type of flour (be it almond flour or some other type of specialty flour).
You have to separate the eggs at some point and whip the egg whites (which the pictures illustrate) so that you get fluffy white peaks and fold it into this chocolatey goodness very gently. This is very important, you have to make sure there are no white streaks but at the same time you don’t want to be harsh with the batter and over mix it or you lose the airiness. It becomes this fluffy light mousse-like batter that you bake. It puffs up like a souffle and deflates slightly when it cools but stills looks awesomely delicious. I love how it’s flourless.
Beautiful.
This was a big week for Kirsten, she had to made a special cake for a wedding rehearsal and as you can see, it turned out amazing! It took several hours of dedicated work but she got through it and I decided it had to be featured in a post on tumblr.
Sweet Hearts does specialty cakes!
Featuring some of the yumminess that we sell in our shop!
Cupcake tree~
Yum!
