THANKSGIVING WEEKEND

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving, I know I did. It is always a busy time for me because it is when I begin my holiday ornaments and designs (to follow in next post) and it is my beloved's birthday. Every year I make a cake design of something he is loving that year last year it was Wall-E

and this year, my little nerd was loving Star Trek! This has been a long and deeply seeded obsession (we have driven to Canada twice to meet Patrick Stewart) and one I have grown to share. This year with the new movie being a wonderful surprise and all his gift being Star Trek related, I decided the cake should be as well.

It is Saturn with stars coming out and the original enterprise on top. I had several crises, including one where all the frozen veg in my my moms frig fell on the swirled chocolate rings cracking them, but in the end I was just happy it taste delicious. The recipe is a basic chocolate buttermilk cake and a basic vanilla buttermilk cake recipe with alternating raspberry jam, crushed hazelnuts with sugar layers and chocolate hazelnut whip cream layers. SO GOOD! It is my new standby!