These are some of the first cakes I decorated. You can tell they are not very good but practice makes perfect and you get better the more you do stuff like this.
I called this my monster cake because I experimented with a bunch of different things with this cake. First, it is a yellow cake which I added 1 tbsp. raspberry extract to, to try and make it a raspberry flavored cake. I didn't think it tasted very raspberry. It had just a faint hint. Some people loved it, other didn't really taste the raspberry at all. If I was to do this again, I would add more raspberry extract to the batter.
I also added 1 tbsp. meringue powder to the batter. People claim it makes the cake fluffier and moister. I didn't notice any difference so I don't think I'll be adding any more meringue powder to my cakes.
It was layered with chocolate mousse, which I also added raspberry extract too. I love the chocolate and raspberry combination. However, I think I added too much raspberry extract to the chocolate mousse. Next time I'll only add 1/2 tsp. raspberry extract.
This cake was the tastiest of the bunch. It was a dark chocolate fudge cake with chocolate mousse layers. It was divine. I plan on making this combination again later this month. My father requested a birthday cake for one of his colleagues, who just happens to love chocolate. So this should be right up her alley.
This was the simplest cake of the bunch. It was an orange cake which I ended up giving to the neighbors. I like orange so I was excited about baking an orange flavored cake. It was good but not quite as tasty as I had hoped. I probably won't be making many more orange cakes unless requested.
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