Building a big cake!

My niece recently said on her facebook status,

“We are a family that  likes to make big cakes.”

So true.

We made one for her father’s birthday one year that was 5 different cakes

all stacked up on top of each other.

And today we made a 5 layer cake with filling and frosting- a chocolate

decadent cake that was so large that no one could eat even the thinnest slice

by themselves!

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Here it is layer by layer-  Chocolate chip cookies- 1

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Chocolate cake- layer # 2

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Chocolate marshmallow fluff – icing# 1

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Chocolate chip cookie dough- layer # 3

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More Chocolate marshmallow icing

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another chocolate cake- layer # 4

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top layer chocolate chip cookie- # 5.

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Chocolate Ganache icing.

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Drizzling Dark chocolate and sea salt caramel on the sides and top.

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Garnishing with marshmallows and chocolate bits.

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Lighting the candles!

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Admiring the cake!!!

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Cutting the cake with an electric knife – thin slices were mandatory!

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A peek inside-

Well that is the pictorial review of our endeavor.

We all baked a part of the cake- or made an icing- and then we brought it together

and built it.  My family has lots of birthdays in October- so we decided to celebrate them

all with this giant cake.

Happy Birthday to Elizabeth, Martha, Roger, Allyson, Aaron, Lily—,Dianne, and Kieran.

Did I forget anyone?

Leave me a insulted comment and I will ask your forgiveness!

19 thoughts on “Building a big cake!

  1. I have never seen such a tall cake and everyone’s smiles involved tell the story of how much fun you had together making it ! Happy Birthday Heidi’s Family 🙂

  2. I still haven’t started eating my slice. I just might freeze most of it and take it to Kitchener next weekend for all 8 of us to enjoy. Hahhaha. It was fun even if we were late arriving! Hope to be there the WHOLE time next time we “build-a-cake”.
    BTW: Lily’s b-day is Oct 13. Maci is 7-7.

    • Thanks, Carole- it was late when I posted this and I thought I had mixed up someone’s day! I’ll fix it now. Next time give us a call and you can come with Cynthia and I and let your menfolks come late by themselves! 🙂

    • You know, Celia, the best thing about this cake is the joy of spending time together putting it all together! We have a lot of fun at our family get togethers!
      We’ve had contests for the best potato dishes, for the best chili, and once we had a Chinese meal cook off where we used the same ingredients and came up with meals in three different teams. Everyone tasted everyone else’s dishes and then we voted.
      Great fun.

    • That is true. Even if we couldn’t eat a whole piece.
      Honestly, I think we would have been in a diabetic coma if we had tried to eat a piece of our own! 🙂

    • Brydie- the cookie layers caught up a regular knife and would have squished the chocolate cake layer- so the electric knife kept the integrity of the cake secure- LOL!
      I love having a whole family of foodies!

  3. A family of foodies – oh yeah! Can’t wait to taste my piece of this cake and sorry that I missed the one in December for Christmas, too. I saw there was still half a cake of that left, so maybe someone saved a small slice of that one, too? 🙂

    • Both cakes were good- I liked this last one a little bit better- not so sweet or intense. It is so much fun putting them together- we have to figure out how to all be there at the same time!!!

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