PASSION FRUIT PARADISE
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This was a surprise wedding test cake that I made for my friend Nicole on April 19, 2008.  
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DESIGN
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Not much design to do on my part. The bride found a cake design she liked online and I was simply challenged to reproduce it.
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CAKE
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Famous "Chocolate Blackout Cake" recipe by Margaret Braun.
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FILLING
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Passion fruit syrup brushed onto the cake layers with a thin layer of passionfruit curd and another thin layer of mocha italian meringue buttercream.
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ICING
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Mocha italian meringue buttercream with white chocolate fondant colored peach to match Frazee paint chip color 7333M Endless Peach.
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Decoration
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The flowers were made from color flow royal icing piped onto parchment over a flower template. I used a computer aided drafting program called AutoCAD to draw the templates for the flowers. I basically eyeballed the size and shape from the online image.
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Thanks
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I can pat my own back for this one. I woke up Saturday morning and decided last minute to make this test cake. So I made the curd, went grocery shopping, baked the cake, made the buttercream, made the syrup and filled, frosted, decorated and photographed the cake myself all in 6.5 hours. I had made the royal icing flower a couple of weeks ago. I’m getting pretty good at this, I must say!!
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<img src=images/2008_nicole_test1.jpg>
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<img src=images/2008_nicole_test2.jpg>
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