Snowflake Cake

A few weeks back my two favorite sous chefs, a friend near and dear to me, my brother and his beautiful wife, shmoops, Molly and the rest of the gang all came together to celebrate the holidays and winter, and of course, food. Trying to do the exact of opposite of what we did for the end of the summer party, the execs (me and shmoops) tried to keep it simple. and for the most part, we succeeded beautifully. The main course was a tuscan white bean soup, and florentine rolls which rocked all the socks at the party off. The dessert menu was decided by yours truly, and what better way to celebrate winter and the grisly weather it brings than with a Snowflake Cake!

A white layer cake with sugar sugary white frosting sprinkled with delicate white chocolate snowflakes.

this part was so cool! ok. Go grab a bowl of hot (not boiling) water. got it? cool. put white chocolate in a ziploc baggie. set baggie in hot water, and wait about....6 minutes. (in this time you can: feed your dog 2 hot dogs, go to the bathroom and wash your hands for 15 seconds and maybe straighten your hair right quick, or sit on the couch, take a few sip of your Miller Lite and be socialble, but only for about 6 minutes, because then you better get your ass back in the kitchen!!) so.

once the white chocolate has melted, snip a tiny hole in the corner of the baggie and sqeeze out the snowflakes on a baking sheet covereed with aluminium foil. then politely ask your sous chef to put sprinkles on the points of each snowflake. then pour her a drink and thank her profusely because that part is a pain in the ass.

Place the baking sheets of snowflakes in the freezer until the absolute last minute you need them because they melt maaad fast.
So, once the cake has baked, you have mixed the 2 pounds of sugar together to make the frosting, and frosted the two layers together and then covered the 2 cakes to make one, i call in my second sous chef to do the tricky task of pulling the frozen white chocolate snoflakes off the baking sheet and giving them to me to place in the cake.
(did i mention they melt maaad fast? it was worth mentioning again)

isn't she lovely!!
(oh what am i going to do in pastry school when i don't have kristen and micaela around and I am the one who has to do all this silly work?)

finished product. kiss kiss.

My little cousin claimed the cake was "too good". which goes to show you, you can't please them all.