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!
Here it is layer by layer- Chocolate chip cookies- 1
Chocolate cake- layer # 2
Chocolate marshmallow fluff – icing# 1
Chocolate chip cookie dough- layer # 3
More Chocolate marshmallow icing
another chocolate cake- layer # 4
top layer chocolate chip cookie- # 5.
Chocolate Ganache icing.
Drizzling Dark chocolate and sea salt caramel on the sides and top.
Garnishing with marshmallows and chocolate bits.
Lighting the candles!
Admiring the cake!!!
Cutting the cake with an electric knife – thin slices were mandatory!
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!
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 🙂
Oh- it was great fun!
Making it was more fun than eating it- although it was quite delicious and Very sweet!
We are already thinking about the next one…:)
Amazing! Did you airmail Martha a piece? So glad you had fun putting it together! Thanks for sharing your adventure.
No- but we froze a piece for Ralph and Carole to take to her next week.
It is great to have a family that likes to make and bake and eat together!
Can you believe that they forgot to bring it?! It had better still be in their freezer so that I can have it when I come next weekend!! 🙂
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! 🙂
Love it!!!
Thank you- it was delicious!
It is a lot of fun to make a huge family cake.
Oh that is glorious! How wonderful to have a truly family made cake! You have a really amazing family, Heidi! xx
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.
Heidi I love the idea of this, that would be so much fun!
It really is a good time- and good eats!
You could do it with like minded friends if your family lives too far away!
Not only was this cake good to look at, it was delicious to eat.
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! 🙂
What an awesome looking cake, and love the fact that you had to use an electric knife to cut through 🙂
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!
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!!!