Posts by Marianna46

You're right about not every recipe allowing for alcohol being added ad libitum, lilmissbakesalot! But so far the WASC recipe (which, of course, isn't a scratch cake but a doctored cake mix) has been able to handle everything I've...

Ah, a lovely cake. So glad everything went well. I was following this thread with bated breath, although I didn't have a clue as to what might happen!

Good point, Jenn123. And something I don't always remember!

If you could travel with separate tiers and stack them when you get there, it would probably be easier all around. I wouldn't freeze them after they're ganached, because the condensation that forms as they thaw can be a problem. My...

I defy anyone to tell me the difference between a cake that's been frozen and one that hasn't in a blind taste test. Well, gee, that sure sounded confrontational! I really didn't mean to be that aggressive, just to say that they...

I'm sure your cake will be a masterpiece, and of course your son will love it because it's just what he wanted. If you haven't made gelatin bubbles before, good luck with them. Once you get the hang of them, they're easy, but I found...

I often just substitute all or most of the liquid for the alcohol I want to use. I made a great Bailey's cake from the basic WASC recipe. I wanted a stronger flavor, though, so I also bathed the layers in Bailey's and then put Bailey's...

Well, actually scratch vs. mix DOES come into question here, not as a judgmental thing (I do both, so I have no opinion on this), but because commercial cake mixes have a lot more leavening in them than scratch recipes do, so they tend...

I thoroughly enjoyed your explanation, dinmauk! Thanks for taking the time to write it. Actually, charging per portion has less to do with the number of servings you will really be getting from the cake and more to do with how to...

No problem at all for that amount of time. Once you ice it and put it back in the fridge, the stabilized cream will set and hold its shape (for days, even, but I'm sure it would go bad long before that!).