Socialist Kake

Kate and Steph!

Hi! This is Steph & Steph Jr!

And this is their story. q! They cook a lot and live in an awesome apartment. Well, Steph does, but Kate spends more waking time in here than anywhere else.

Socialist cake

Today's adventure was Socialist Kake! It's delicious. Tasty cake. q! We made a boring yellow cake with red food coloring to turn it into an exciting pink-red cake! Yellow fondant (not the crap kind, homemade fondant) was made to go onto the exciting red cakes!

Story behind the cake was Steph's professor Vince said she couldn't make something too sugary - "I accept this challenge!" (must be said in French accent).  So with a meeting with him tomorrow the sugary disaster had to be made in the kitchen.

Steph's booby ball

With the leftovers, Steph made cake paste and then used the extra fondant to make a booby ball (or what ever it was... It was weird and pure sugar).

There were also some fondant-cake paste babies, but they weren't all that cute. q! They all got eaten by me.

So you want the recipe? Yes? Yes.

Basic yellow cake
Prep time: 15 minutes (I don't believe this)
Cook time: 25 minutes (I do believe this)
Total time: 40 minutes (More if you have to leave to Target halfway through to go get powdered sugar)
Yield: 2 9-inch cake rounds

• 2 cups cake flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla (but really, nobody's counting)
• 3/4 cup milk (or maybe 3/4 cup heavy cream)

Preheat oven to 350F. Grease and flour 2 9-inch cake pans.

Combine flour, baking powder, and salt.

Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy! We used a nice mixer that goes in circles. Beat eggs and vanilla together, and mix with butter-sugar mix gradually. Alternately add flour mix and milk to mixer. Then you attack it with food coloring, one of Kate's favorite things in the world. We used a lot of red to get it a nice pink color. Divide between the two pans.

Bake for 20 to 25 minutes. Cool in pan, and if you haven't attacked it thoroughly with Pam you should probably take it out around 5 minutes after it comes out.

Buttercream icing

Buttercream Icing

• 1 stick butter (1/2 cup)
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 1/4 heavy cream
• 2 teaspoons vanilla (but again... who's counting?)

Melt butter. You could just mix it up, but melting in the microwave is more fun. Then mix in the sugar, then once you can't mix it any more mix in the heavy cream, and finally the vanilla. Add more heavy cream as needed. Mix until smooth. Then attack it with more food coloring. I did a lot of yellow and Kate did too much red, messing it up. It came out a nice peach color.

Awesome Fondant (Not crap fondant)

• 3 cups mini marshmallows (we used half yellow bunny and half mini-marshmallows)
• 1/2 ounce white bakers chocolate
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 3 cups powdered sugar
• 1 tbsp butter chopped up
• 1 1/2 teaspoons heavy cream

Yellow food coloring to fondant

Put marshmallows, chocolate (chopped up), butter, and heavy cream into a microwave safe bowl in the microwave for around a minute, or whenever your marshmallows get fluffy. Use a big bowl or else they'll probably overflow. Take out of the microwave and add the vanilla along with two cups of powdered sugar. Then place onto your chosen location of fondant war. Kate does this part, and it's gross. Your hands will be eaten by the fondant, until you get it into a manageable ball. Once it's gotten to a point of being fairly solid, add the food coloring again - this fondant was yellow. Massage it into the fondant, and you get awesome tasting yellow fondant!

Ice the cakes with the buttercream, then use this as a glue to put the fondant onto the cakes. We made two tiered cakes, one larger than the other, then with leftover fondant made an interesting blue-green fondant. The sickle and star was cut out of this and placed on the cake. End result, awesome socialist kake!

Me and the french fries from Target

Sadly, this wonderful evening was made quiet by a noise violation. Maybe making kake during finals week wasn't the best idea, but we needed a break from the studying.

So goes today's adventure of Center St Apartment 106 Chefs.

-Stephen