Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Cakes Galore - and Alpacas

I have quite a few events coming up to bake for, and I've started by baking a number of cakes for a tasting. Today I put together a simple marble, chocolate fudge, and vanilla buttermilk cakes. The vanilla buttermilk cake recipe comes from a cookbook I've mentioned before on this blog, "Sky High: Irresistible Triple-Layer Cakes." It is so very tasty - the buttermilk adds such a nice little extra flavor, as well as tons of moisture.
Also coming up is a fundraising banquet at church for the team of students and adults heading on a missions trip this summer to Lima, Peru. I was asked to provide the desserts, and was happy to oblige. I was playing with some ideas for sweets when I came across this Alpaca-shaped cookie cutter online. I have since decided to make some other things and won't be using the cutter for the banquet, but I had the extra piece of cake that I had leveled off, and felt like testing it out. Yep. It turns out that it cuts things in the shape of an alpaca. Genius.

4 comments:

allison said...

Awww, that looks so cute and delicious!

Zachary and Jennifer said...

Tasty treats in the shape of Alpacas without the spitting, perfect. :-)

Jennifer

Julie said...

Aw man, you two kill me!

Justin just informed me that when I presented him with this alpaca-shaped cake, he didn't even realize it - he just thought it was a messed up piece of cake and ate it!!

Angie said...

As usual...yum. And I like your cookie cutter...think of it at Chrismastime. Nothing says Merry Christmas like a frosted alpaca!