I have officially had my worst customer... MY SISTER! My goodness she is driving me absolutely crazy with her cake order. She wants a yellow cake but wants the filling and frosting to be "elegant" I was thinking a white chocolate mousse filling with IMBC frosting but have never tried that combo and I want to knock her socks off and make her feel bad about questioning every single detail of the cake.

Any suggestions?

Want to knock her socks off? Let's see...in the absence of little chocolate violins and roses spilling out of the cake...

Try white chocolate ganache filling with a good quality liqueur generously sprinkled on the cake. What's her favourite fruit? Use that. But try to get something as neutral in colour as possible so that you can't see it on the cake...

This reminds me of one of my sisters who always did plans over 8-10 times before she could be happy. My attitude in the end became "here eat this" and she would eventually figure out that she would never beat me at cake making.

Sounds like a teeny bit of sibling persnickity-ness.....

I would stick with the tried and true: dark chocolate ganache.

It is elegant (like a slinky black dress), and everyone will love it.

If you must "bump it up a notch", then have milk chocolate mousse as the filling (or even Rich's Chocolate Bettercreme", and dark chocolate ganache frosting.

Here's a link to a small 6" cake made for a neighbor. Chocolate Ganache and caramel icing, sour cream chocolate cake.

http://christinascakes.shutterfly.com/pictures/345

Thank you! I should have mentioned that they dont want chocolate She said since the bridal shower is during the day they want something light.

My other idea was lemon mousse filling with lemon IMBC

I can't believe how pickey she is being with this cake, she even tried to tell me how to make it. I told her that since she seems so knowledgeable about making cakes maybe she should start her OWN business and stop telling me how to run mine LOL. If this were any other customer I would politley decline the order.

Raspberry filling with a white chocolate frosting. One of my best sellers the raspberry balances the sweetness of the white chocolate.

What!!! NO Chocolate!!!! Ah well.....

I'd tort the layers, and put 2 layers of lemon and one layer of raspberry filling.

........tort the layers, and put 2 layers of lemon and one layer of raspberry filling.....

YES!! this ^^^

My most requested filling after chocolate is a passion fruit marshmallow mousse. It is fresh and zingy and and goes really well with vanilla cake

Sounds like a real-life counterpart to Alton Brown's fictional sister.

Of course I can share the recipe, here tis;

Recipe by Julie Jansen

pulp from 5 passionfruit
250g pkt marshmallows
200ml cream
1/2 cup natural yoghurt

Use a teaspoon to remove the pulp from 5 passionfruit and place in a saucepan with 250g pkt marshmallows. Stir continuously, over a low heat until the marshmallows have melted.

Set aside to cool slightly, then stir in 200ml cream and 1/2 cup natural yoghurt until smooth.

I line a springform cake tin (one size smaller than cake) with glad wrap (not sure what the American version is called?? ) and pour in mousse and let set in fridge until firm.

Then I lift mousse out of tin still on glad wrap and invert onto the cake and peel away wrap. I then pipe a dam around the mousse (which is why i use one size smaller tin to make mousse) as it can bulge once you put the top cake layer on without the dam.

Thank you so much Katharine. I really appreciate it.

WOW sounds delish!! They finally decided on white chocolate mousse filling and BC frosting. But I am going to have to make a cake for me just to try the passion fruit mousse