How To Make A Sinful Bakery Cake – Part 1 The Icings and Fillings

The Sinful Bakery Cake takes a while to prepare but it is well worth it.  This is 5 layers of sponge cake with four different filings.  This one of my best selling cakes and I am going to share it with you.

I have s[;it this up two posts and videos.  The first post is the fillings.  The second post/video is the assembly.

Enjoy!  Happy Baking.

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How To Make a Chocolate Hazelnut Cake

Nutella seems to be the latest food craze. . . So how can we up the ante?  How about by adding ground hazelnuts.  Let’s do one better, combine it with my Best Secret Chocolate Cake and chocolate Swiss Meringue Buttercream. Now we’re talking!

Try this one today

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How To Make an Oreo Cream Cake

Now tell me, who out there does not love Oreo® cookies?  How about Oreos® combined with cake?

Talk about good.  Put together a handful of my recipes and make this wonderful dessert.

Try it today.

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How To Make Quick Bavarian Cream

With only two recipes you can make the Quick Bavarian Cream.  Try you hand at it.  You are sure to fall in love with it.  Remember quality control sampling taste are OK, but please leave some for the finished product.  Better yet make a double recipe, then its one for you, one for me.  Enjoy!

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How To Make Chocolate Mousse – Recipe Tutorial

I admire a great pastry chef, Gretchen Price.  I have been following her ever since she started her original you-tube channel as Crumb Boss which is where I first tried this recipe.  It is the absolute best out there.  This was my inspiration for this dessert.

Once you try it yourself, you will be hooked too.

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Zebra Fondant Layer Cake Tutorial

This is a beautiful cake with a number of thin layers of cake and thin layers of filling. Don’t be tempted to  overfill.  Fondant is used to cover the cake and black fondant is used to simulate zebra stripes.  Add as many strips as you wish, some thin, some thicker. Make it your own.  This cake is decorated with a few extra fondant items for a client.  There is no right or wrong way here.

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Easy Homemade Vanilla Custard Recipe

Homemade Vanilla Custard can also be called Pastry Cream and sometimes Vanilla Pudding.

This custard is used in various different baked items.  Cream puffs, chocolate eclairs, Boston Cream Pie, various pastries and it is just so good by itself as a pudding/custard.

Since this is an egg based product with preservatives it remains perishable even after cooking.  So it must be cooked down to refrigerator temperature (under 40ºF/5ºC) with in an hour.  And it should not be left out at room temperature for over an hour.

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