Being unique for your dinner party can be daunting. How would you like to serve something different? You can, and you can make it yourself. Pick out the flavors below, bake and cool the layers then, fill them with what I used, and enjoy!
1. Banana and Chocolate Swirl (aka Marble) with a Kahlua Mocha Chip filling.
2. Banana Cake with Cream Cheese., Pineapple and Nut filling. You can add sliced Bananas or Strawberry slices, even a few mini-Chocolate Chips to the filling if you wish.
3. 1 layer each Banana and Chocolate Cake with a Kahlua Mocha Chip filling and Banana slices.
4. Chocolate Cake with Genache OR Raspberry or Strawberry Mousse OR Fudge filling.
5. 1 layer each Chocolate and Lemon Cake with White Chocolate Mousse filling and fresh Raspberries.
6. Chocolate-Orange Swirl (aka Marble) with Chocolate Fudge filling and Mandarin Orange slices.
7. Lemon Cake with White Chocolate Mousse filling and fresh Raspberries.
8. Mocha Cake with Tiramisu Filling and Coffee Icing.
9. Strawberry Cake with Chocolate Icing filling and fresh Strawberry slices. Add a few mini-Chocolate chips to filling for extra special taste.
10. Snicker Doodle Cake. Chocolate Cake with Carmel Filling, Rich's Bettercreme Icing, and sliced Snickers on top.
11. Black Forest Cake. 4 layers of Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Mousse on 1st layer, Cherries on 2nd layer, and White Chocolate Mousse on top layer. Ice with Rich's Bettercreme (see below for where to purchase this item). Sprinkle Chocolate slivers all over cake. Put Cherries with stems on top of cake and you have one amazing dessert!
I suggest you find a great recipe for a Buttercreme Icing or, if you wish, purchase icing in cans at the store, but being they are small, you need at least 2 or 3 cans to cover a 2 layer, 8 inch cake.
Otherwise, Ruth Levy Berenbaum has luscious icing recipes made with liquor and fresh butter (she has a wonderful website). You can add melted chocolate but I prefer Hershey's Cocoa for the Chocolate Buttercreme. Do remember to add a little bit of water as you beat in the Cocoa because Chocolate tends to make the icing too thick and you need it to spread easily.
Rich's Bettercreme (non-dairy topping) can be purchased at your local cake decorating shop. Sams Club sells it but the container is a massive bucket normally for commercial use. Your local cake decorating shop should be able to sell it to you in quart or half gallon sizes.
If you use Cream Cheese, purchase the solid bars, beat with a little water in your mixer so it is spreadable, and keep iced cake in refrigerator until you are ready to serve your dessert.
Lastly, Williams-Sonoma has a cake book with one of the best Chocolate Genache recipes I've ever tasted.
I sincerely hope many of you looking through this article, will try all of these combos and love each one.
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