Tessa Huff shares her colourful creations in her second cookbook, titled Icing on the Cake.
Tessa Huff recalls how she initially turned to baking during college as a way to escape the “chaos” of classes and to find peace and quiet from her “rowdy” roommates.
While she’s since closed her own bakery, she hasn’t slowed down creating colourful cakes and goodies. Instead, she went online, sharing beautiful images and tasty recipes for her online readers via her blog, Style Sweet CA. Icing on the Cake was the result. Featuring more than 100 recipes for cakes, cookies, cupcakes and more, the book goes beyond mere baking, shining a spotlight on the art of the exterior.
Of the recipes on offer in the full-colour cookbook, Huff pointed to the Swedish Princess Cake as her flavourful favourite. But, if the idea of painstakingly piping tiny roses from buttercream and hand-braiding dough for a pie topper seems more frustrating than fantastic, Huff says that it’s more than OK. Simply don’t do it.
“Mostly my husband and his co-workers, but also my parents and everyone in their building,” Huff says. And her two young kids also likely get a small share of the sampling duties, of course. In fact, Huff says her son has already expressed an interest in joining in her hobby-turned-career. It’s a turn of events she says couldn’t be sweeter.
Evenly divide the batter between the prepared pans and bake for 12 to 15 minutes, until the surface springs back when gently touched. rotate the pans halfway through baking. do not over bake, or the cakes may crack. Holding the piping bag perpendicular to the surface of the cake, pipe clusters of flowers on the top and sides of the cake, or as desired. use the same technique as piping a star. Place a sugar pearl in the centre of each flower.
Turn the mixer to low and add the flour mixture in three batches, alternating with the milk mixture, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Mix on medium for no more than 30 seconds after the last streaks of the flour mixture are combined.
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