Hi all..I don't know if this has already been done, but I thought it would be good to have a place to go to for cake combination ideas.

The thought is that we could post our most popular cake/filling/icing/simple sugar flavor combinations to refer to when we need some ideas. I'm not talking about recipes, just combos. Perhaps we can PM for recipes.

here's one of mine:

Chocolate cake with
chocolate rum toffee mousse filling,
Dark chocolate ganach icing.

here are 2 of my personal favorites...

PEANUT BUTTER
Chocolate cake filled with peanut butter ganache

CARAMEL BANANA
Light banana cake with a caramel cream cheese frosting and a chocolate ganache layer

YUM!

Those sound great!

Here's another one:

Vanilla almond cake
Bavarian cream filling
IMBC flavored with Grand Marnier
Covered with ground toasted almonds


WOULD ANYBODY ELSE LIKE TO SHARE???

Peanut butter ganache

3/4  cup whipping cream
2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon light corn syrup
12 ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, chopped
3/4  cup creamy peanut butter

Bring cream, sugar, and corn syrup to simmer in heavy medium saucepan. Add chocolate and stir until melted and smooth. Transfer mixture to medium bowl. Add peanut butter and whisk until mixture is smooth

YUM!

thanks! can't wait to give that a try...

White Cake with Kahlua soak
Sliced strawberry filling on a layer of Kahlua imbc
Iced with Kahlua icing

It ends up tasting like a cup of coffee with strawberry short cake. Yum!

Any one else?
*BUMP*

all of these sound yummy

i've been wanting to try a

lemon cake
strawbery filling
lemon bc

nothing special or different there---but DH doesn't like lemon so i haven't tried it yet

One of my favs is White Almond cake with Chocolate Ganache filling and Almond BC. YUM!!!!

Pink champagne cake with strawberry filing!

mmm.. pink champagna with strawberry.. what is the recipe for that???

I have been trying to find a reason to try a chocolate with hazelnut filling, sounds soooo good!

I loved my 7UP lemon cake (from a cake mix) with lemon-lime curd filling and lemon buttercream. yummy yummy! I'd love to hear other flavor combinations too though. I found one recipe in a book for a peach cake w/ brown sugar frosting...... I would love to try that! And I had a caramel apple cake for my wedding and found a recipe and I'm still wanting to try that one too!

Pound cake with strawberry filling and whipped cream frosting. Simple, but oh so good especially in the good ol' summertime!

daltonam, I'm doing a groom's cake on August 19th and that was the groom's request. Lemon cake with strawberry filling. I'll let you know how it tastes!!

White almond with raspberry filling and almond icing. SOOO good!

Also, raspberry cake with lemon buttercream (made with REAL lemon) is delish!

Pink champagne cake is a white box cake and I replaced all the milk/water with champagne and added a little red food coloring. It smells a lot stronger than it tastes.

These all sound soooo good!!
Here's one

Vanilla almond cake
1 layer of Raspberry mousse filling and
1 layer of lemon mousse filling
vanilla buttercream icing

This is really easy and tastes great. Mix 1 coconut cake mix and 1 pinapple cake mix(Duncan Hines makes both). This makes kind of a pina colada cake. I like to frost or fill mine with cream cheese icing.

I just did a double chocolate fudge cake with hazelnut fudge filling. I also did a lemon supreme cake with rasperry filling. My favorite is a butter pecan cake with caramel pecan filling.

My favorie is yellow cake with a layer of strawberry and a layer of banana. The two of the cakes that are favorites of my family is a yellow cake with a layer of rasberry and layer of coconut rum and then a yellow/choc/yellow cake with choc genache and rasberry rum. I used vanilla BC on all of these. Not to exciting yet but thats why everyone loves the basics!!!

coconut rum sounds good!!

Chocolate Cake Grand Marnier ss soak
1 layer Orange Marmalade and
2 layer Bittersweet Chocolate Mousse
Orange Buttercream

Okay I'm drooling now

When you do the liquor soaks, do you use the actual liquor or do you mix it with something?

pope77: what kind of strawberry filling do you use?

bump. I have a wedding cake and thought about doing a liquor soak on one of the layers

Does the liquor soak make the cake all mushy?

I use a combination of simple syrup and the liqueor flavoring. You can use extracts and fruit juices also. Just be careful of how much to use and your cake will not be mushy. It doesn't take a lot of liquid, but it depends on your recipe. I use about 1/4 cup per layer., Some use more or less.

To make simple syrup, place equal amounts of granulated sugar and water in a pan (or bowl if using a microwave). Bring to a boil until sugar dissolves. let cool. all set. You can then add your flavorings to it.

Now don't I feel like a dunce. I didn't know that it was just simple syrup with flavoring added. Ok another dumb question: are the liquors flavorings that you purchase or do I just pick up a small bottle of the actual liquor from the liquor store?

One of my favorite combos

Bananna cake with chocolate filling and frosting.

regymusic- what is your recipe for that? I would love to try that for my Mom's birthday. sounds divine I searched for kahlua soak & Kahlua icing in the recipe section and came up with nothing