Icing Smiles is one of my favorite organizations because it combines my passion of cake making with helping out children with critical illnesses to give them... a smile! The school that Alex, of Alex's Lemonade Stand, attended before she passed away in 2004, has an annual event to celebrate Alex's goal of making money by selling lemonade to find a cure for cancer. Part of the celebration this year was a school-wide fundraising to make a donation to Icing Smiles. My friend and founder of Icing Smiles, Tracy Quisenberry wanted to have one of the Icing Smiles baking partners create a cake in return as a token of gratitude. That's where I come it!
The cake I made was an ode to lemonade! I had design freedom so I listed everything that goes into the making of lemonade and sketched something up: sugar, glasses, stand, mint, straws, water, pitcher, and of course, lemons. I came up with a bag of sugar, a lemon wedge, a wooden spoon, mint and a straw! I added glucose "here and there" so it insinuated dripping lemon juice.
I loved the inside of the cake! I came up with a new cake flavor that is a total keeper. I made a lemon pound cake, moistened with a lemon syrup, filled with lemon buttercream and lemon curd, and iced in a white chocolate ganache. The pound cake recipe not only has butter, but cream cheese as well! YUM! Here is the cake that I created!
Great job Rafael!
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