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Recipe: Maple Cake

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 Quick confession: I love maple. Almost as much as I love cinnamon. I thought it was high time I had a maple cake recipe up.  Maple Cake: 1/3 cup (80g) butter 2/3 cup (150mL) oil 2 cups (400g) brown sugar 1 tbsp baking powder 1 tbsp maple flavoring 1/2 tsp salt 3 cups (375g) flour 1 cup (225mL) milk 6 egg whites Beat egg whites to stiff peaks and set aside.  In a separate bowl, cream butter, oil and brown sugar together.  Beat in baking powder, maple flavoring and salt. Beat in half the flour, then half the milk. Then the rest of the flour and the rest of the milk.  Fold in egg whites.  Pour batter into greased and lined cake pans. Bake at 300°F or 150°C for 45-60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. This cake is light and fluffy and tastes amazingly of maple. I absolutely love this cake and is one of my favorites. Watch me make this cake up on my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/qqAfdiNlPew Schaut zu wie ich diese T...

Buttercream Relief Society Birthday Cake

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 This cake was for the Relief Society birthday celebration at my church. The Relief Society is the women's organization for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I baked two layers of cake in a 13x9 inch cake pan: one chocolate and one vanilla. I filled it with vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream.   Then I frosted the cake with vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream.  Then I frosted it again with vegan American buttercream. Vegan American buttercream is much prettier than other buttercreams, but doesn't taste very good. It's much too sweet and almost flavorless. So, I first frost the cake with the buttercream that tastes good and frost it again with the pretty buttercream.  Then I color some buttercream blue without a tip and gold (using yellow and a bit of brown) with a round tip and white with a medium open star tip.  I used a circle cutter to mark a circle in the middle of the cake. Then I filled it in with blue.  And I smoothed it with a spat...

Rosalina Cake from Super Mario Bros

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 This cake was a request from a channel viewer. Byron wanted this cake for his birthday. So, happy birthday, Byron. This is Rosalina: I frosted a 6-inch cake dummy with vegan American buttercream. Then I covered the cake with pastel turquoise fondant.  Then I started making the 2D figure of Rosalina. I used a picture as a reference and cut out one color at a time. I added some black food coloring to highlight the facial features. I added a twisted rope of white and yellow fondant along the bottom of the cake and added some yellow stars along the side. I love how it turned out. I think it looks just like Rosalina.  Happy Birthday, Byron. Watch us make this cake on our YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/ekc_yelnAp4 Schaut zu wie ich diese Torte auf meinem YouTube Kanal mache hier: https://youtu.be/kd6GMX9pUg4