Calling all Cake Bakers!!!!
I making a birthday cake for SO in about 2 weeks. He's requested a white chocolate raspberry cake with cream cheese frosting. I'm using raspberry jam for the filling. It's only going to be two layers with one layer of filling.
I know it seems that ganache is super runny but if you let it set a little and let it thicken it won't run so much. So yes piping on the top would maybe help keep it on top, however you don't need to if you don't want. The more cream you add the more fluid the ganache will be, and the less it will set. So if you want it thicker, make your chocolate content a little higher or let it cool more before putting it on top. Ganache is super easy to make.
Do you have a recipe for raspberry cream cheese frosting? I didn't think of that but it sounds great
Ah i got it! Ill make the make the cake layers and do the raspberry filling. Then do a smooth coat of cream cheese frosting with a simple border at the bottom (maybe a textured side instead). Add a boarder of rosettes on top and gently pour the ganache in the center. The rosettes will hold the ganache in place. Garnish with whole raspberries.
Does that sound pretty?
Ive never made ganache before and don't want to eff it up. Should i just make a mousse instead?
@dear... I misspoke. What I mean is a ganache works a lot better for the drip. Especially texture wise. You'll also find that most bakers would use a white chocolate ganache for the drips, apposed to straight up melted chocolate. Simply because it'll give a better mouth feel and even when it's set, it'll be nice and creamy with a smooth feeling. It's also really easy to accidentally seize white chocolate as it's highly temperamental, so a ganache has a larger margin of error. Plus I think it tastes better, but that's 100% a preference.
The thing is he really wanted the cream cheese frosting. These three elements must be in the cake. I'm just trying to create the perfect balance of flavor.
I honestly wouldn't do a cream cheese frosting. That's a very heavy dense flavor, and I feel like with the raspberry it's nice to keep things light and fresh. I would use white chocolate mousse as the filling as well as the raspberry. And then use the white chocolate ganache whipped as a frosting. Then I'd use white chocolate ganache dyed his favorite color as a decorative chocolate drip.

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I made myself a cake for my birthday tomorrow! Coconut layer cake with coconut lemon cream cheese frosting. 🤤 I got the recipe from the book “Coconut Layer Cake Murder” by Joanne Fluke. 🤣 She may look a bit messy, but I bet she’ll be tasty!
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Del Monico Steaks
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Baked potatoes
White chocolate raspberry cheesecake
Nutella Fudge
This cake is starting to look like a FAIL the top layer of my cake is falling apart 😅
subway raspberry cheese cake cookies are so good!
If you wanted you could actually let the ganache set completely, overnight and whip it up. It'll basically turn into an icing and you should be able to pipe with it, if maybe you want to pipe rosettes around the boarder and plop a fresh raspberry in the middle of each one. So you get little white chocolate raspberry thingies. That would be so cute.