I’ve been wanting to make a number cake for such a long time. But I don’t like the idea of using cookies for base. I believe a lot of people have the same thought when it comes to cutting the cake. It is cookie, how do you cut it without breaking it? how do you cut it evenly? So, the thought of making one faded after a while until recently I saw another beautiful one. I started think really hard and I decided to make a cake base instead of cookie base.
I wanted to make a letter cake for my birthday 2 weeks ago, but my birthday day is my all I can eat junk food day so I didn’t have extra stomach for cake. And this week I finally decided to make one because today is my Chinese Lunar birthday. The fun part is decorating. I should have bought some fresh flower to make it better looking.
This cake is easier than it seems. I use below cake recipe for base, and I made 1.5 times as much of batter for my letter cake( depends on how big you want to make your cake, adjust accordingly):
https://caiqinchen.com/2017/06/07/sponge-cake%e6%b5%b7%e7%bb%b5%e8%9b%8b%e7%b3%95/
The Cream Cheese Whipped Cream Frosting:
12 oz. cream cheese
1/2 to 2/3 cup sugar
1.5 cups heavy cream
1.5 tsp Vanilla extra
Add cream cheese and sugar together and mix them with a electronic mixer until creamy.
Add vanilla extra and heavy cream and continue to mix until firm about 4 minutes.
- placing one layer of the letter onto a cake platter. Using a pastry bag fitted with a large round tip, pipe the whipped cream frosting over the cake in dollops. You can choose to evenly spread the frosting too, I don’t have a round tip, so I used one that is similar.
- Place the second layer of the letter cake on top of frosting. Pipe some more frosting on top in dollops.
- Finally, decorate the cake with your desired toppings. I used fresh fruit, M&M, chocolate, fake macarons that are made of marzipan, I also use marzipan to make some fruits.
Tips:
If you are making a number cake, this recipe is good, if you are making double digits, make sure you double everything.
我一直想做一个数字蛋糕。但我不喜欢用饼干做底。当要切蛋糕的时候我相信很多人都有同样的想法。它是饼干 你怎么切它而不会碎呢？你怎么可以切得均匀呢？后来我也就忘记了要去做，直到最近我看到了另一个漂亮的数字蛋糕。我就很努力的想要怎么做，后来我决定做一个蛋糕底的。
2周前 我想为我自己的生日做一个字母蛋糕, 但我的生日那天是我吃垃圾食品的时候, 所以我没有额外的胃容量来装蛋糕了。这个星期我终于决定做一个因为今天是我的农历生日。做这个蛋糕最有趣的部分是装饰。我应该买些鲜花让它看起来更漂亮。
这个蛋糕比看起来容易。我用下面的蛋糕食谱做的基底, 我做了1.5 倍的面糊 (取决于你的蛋糕大小相应 调整):
https://caiqinchen.com/2017/06/07/sponge-cake%e6%b5%b7%e7%bb%b5%e8%9b%8b%e7%b3%95/
奶油乳酪奶油霜:
12盎司奶油乳酪
1/2 到2/3 杯糖
1.5 杯动物奶油
1.5 茶匙香草精
加奶油奶酪和糖在一大盆里，用电子搅拌器搅拌在一起, 直到奶油变软。
添加香草精和奶油, 并继续混合, 直到硬挺约4分钟。
装配：
把一层字母基底放在蛋糕盘上。用一个装着大圆尖挤奶油嘴的糕点袋里装上奶油霜。你可以选择均匀的涂抹奶油霜在基底上, 我没有圆尖的奶油嘴, 所以我用了一个类似的。把奶油均匀的挤在第一层的基底上。
将字母蛋糕的第二层放在挤好奶油霜的第一层上。再在第二层上挤奶油霜。
最后, 用你想要的配料装饰蛋糕。我用了新鲜水果, M&M巧克力, 巧克力, 由杏仁糖制成的假马卡龙 , 我也用杏仁糖做一些水果。
技巧：
如果你是做一个数字蛋糕, 这个食谱也可以了, 如果你是做两位数的, 那你材料要加一倍的量了。
Second dish is still stir fry steak but with Mushrooms and bell pepper. I used 3 different kind of mushrooms, also this one I used vegetarian oyster sauce instead of salt and pepper. I thin slice everything. This one I cooked steak first, then stir fried the vegetable for a few minutes until everything is tender then add the cooked steak alone with oyster sauce. This was just as good as the first dish!
