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xabanga

I've been craving chocolate lately so I made these on a whim:

Here is the recipe link.

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Champagne custard cake

April 1, 2007 - 4:53pm -- Sandaidh

Back when I lived in California, I used to get a champagne custard cake from the bakery at a local supermarket.  The original supermarket has now been gone many years, and for the life of me, I CANNOT remember the name of it.  However, after that market closed, I was able to get them at the bakery in Albertson's.  Since moving to New York, I have searched the internet for a recipe and come up empty-handed.  Does anyone know of this cake and/or have a recipe or know where I can get the recipe?  Description-wise, the cake is a two-layer, round, white cake, with a champagne custard &

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dstroy

 

My son is a huge Legend of Zelda fan. He has been for years actually.

When he was 3, he wanted to dress as the hero "Link" (Green Boy, as he called him) for Halloween.

Here was his costume:

 

So when he asked for a Zelda cake for his birthday, I had to think about how I was going to do this. I'm not exactly a professional cake decorator!

I finally took some classic imagery from the game - the sword in the stone, the hero, and the Tri-force symbol that appears throughout the game, as my inspiration for the cake.

 

I started with cookies, which I cut and painted with food coloring ink.

I made a couple of Link cookies to choose from, and a partial sword cookie too.

Then I made a chocolate cake, which I froze and cut and rearranged:

 

And finally some cream cheese chocolate frosting, purple sparkle sugar sprinkled (his favorite color) and some strategically placed non-chocolate frosting with yellow sugar sprinkles and voila!

zelda cake with candles

 

Felix with his cake

He liked his cake!

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