Baby Footprint Template Cake

May 9, MICHELA turned 22

..... and this event was double celebration: a celebration on Saturday, with friends, with cake and candles after midnight, and another on Sunday with relatives and another cake.

menus jump because they were not special, but the cakes can not be ignored .....

MIDNIGHT CAKE ... IMPROVISED

improvised Why? Why I put together pieces from various recipes ... but the end result, for the palate, it was great.

Jacopo me by an assistant cook, in fact, strictly following my directions, for once (hehehehe, I want to clarify), I helped in the preparation of creams (there were too many things to prepare for dinner) We have prepared a first
cream "base" with:

gr. 60 flour
gr. 175
sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
6 t uorli
1 / 2 cups milk
a pinch of salt

and a "cream gateaux , slightly modified, with:

gr. 100 butter

gr. 100 icing sugar
20/30 gr chopped hazelnuts.
two tablespoons of rum
about 100 gr. of the prepared custard
(council to regulate the eye).

cream gateaux Obviously this is all prepared to cold working the softened butter, until it becomes a cream, adding sugar, chopped nuts, rum and last part of the first cream.
the mixture to cool slightly in the refrigerator.
I put a pint of fresh cream and I mixed with the remaining cream base.
As a base for the cake, assembled as a "puff pastry", I used a pastry, ready-made, which I spread the mixture of "basic cream" and "cream gateaux" I then placed a second pasta I browsed and the second coated layer composed of cream and whipped cream. As I
seal placed on the surface of the cake of strawberries cut in half and I decorated with tufts of whipped cream and curls of dark chocolate.