Happy birthday, my sweet baby! Today you make 18 months and your mother prepared a special cake for you.
Ingredients dough:
- 8 eggs
- 5 tablespoons sugar
- 8 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon rum essence
Ingredients icing:
- 600g cream cheese (Philadelphia)
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon rum essence
- 500ml whipping cream (heavy, 40% fat) - cold
Ingredients decoration:
- 500g marzipan for the dress + 50g marzipan for decorations (flowers, ribbon)
- food coloring gel (green and yellow)
Directions for dough:
- Beat the egg whites together with sugar.
- Beat the yolks with a fork and add the rum essence.
- Pout the yolks in the egg whites stirring slowly with up and down movements.
- Add slowly flour and continue to stir.
- Use a semi sphere cake pan. Oil it and cover it with flour inside.
- Pour the mixture in the pan.
- Preheat the oven at 180ºC and bake it for 1 hour.
- Take the dough out of the oven, let it cool a bit and remove gently the cake pan.
- Let the dough cool and cut it in slices. Preferably to let it dry a bit over nigh and to slice it the next day because it very soft.
Directions for icing:
- Soften the cream cheese with a standing mixer.
- Add sugar and rum essence and continue to mix until disolved
- Add whipping cream and mix with medium speed until it become creamy and is forming peaks.Do not overmix.
Decoration:
- Color 500g of marzipan with a little food coloring (green) and knead until the color is well distributed.
- Roll the green marzipan in a sheet of 3mm with a round shape.
- The remaining marzipan color it yellow and make flowers, leaves, ribbons etc.
Assembling:
- Put 2/3 of the icing between slices of dough and stack them on on top of the other.
- With the remaining icing cover the exterior of the cake.
- Level it well and add on top the green matzipan skirt.
- Add all decorations including the doll.
It's not the first tome when I do these sweet dolls. Here are my previous trials.
At 4 months:
At 6 months:
At 10 months:
And now at 18 months:
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