Stacks - Vertical Food

In this class we made stacks! The stacks we made were Cherry Pie Cake Stacks. The whole point of this lab was to learn about plating and decorating.

The cake part of the cherry pie cake stack was a pound cake.

Here is the whipping cream that we used to make whip cream. We put the liquid measure in the fridge to keep the glass cool before we used an electric mixer in it.

And here is the cherry pie filling! 

To assemble and make this was fairly simple. First with the pound cake, we used stack cylinders to cut circles out of the cake. There are various items that you could use. You could purchase special stack cylinders or you could easily create you own by using various sized of cans with both ends removed. 

So basically you choose a can in the desired size, remove both ends of the can, empty it and wash the interior thoroughly with hot, soapy water. Then you remove and discard the labels and dry the cans well. Check the rims for any sharp pieces by the can opener. With some needle nose pliers, flatten it so they do not protrude and cut. Spray the inside with vegetable spray before using.

This is the cylinder we used.

To create the stacks, we sliced each cake into layers and between each layer we added some of the cherry pie filling. 

After we pour some of the chocolate sauce which, was just some Nesquik chocolate sauce on top of the cake.

We, then, piped the whipping cream on the top of the cake stack.

 I didn't know what to do with my cake, so Faith and I thought that since we have some leftover side cake we would make a crown out of it! 

This was just a missed-up one we made because we had one left-over and we had no time to actually design it.