Favorite Cakes in Indonesia

Lapis-Legit

Lapis-Legit is one of the highly favored cakes in Indonesia and also favored by the Southeast Asian community in general.Lapis-Legit often made in celebration of special days such as Birthdays, Wedding Day also in the feast day of The New Year even now also liked eaten daily.Of the row type of Cakes, Lapis-Legit is the most expensive type, no wonder because of the material is expensive, making takes a long time and need patience.

Lapis-Legit is composed of a layer cake. Lapis-Legit also changes according to taste, there is now Lapis-Legit with an assortment of flavors,chocolate flavor, durian flavor, and there is also Lapis-Legit added with cheese or fruit.

Lapis-Legit made with sponge cake and butter cake, because of this combined method then the resulting cake is also different, another unique is that Lapis-Legit be made with a thin layer and baked layer by layer.

A good Lapis-Legit should taste greasy, savory and soft textured.

The display of Lapis-Legit and the lining should look flat, neat and tight ( not hollow ), to produce Lapis-Legit like this kind, of course there are some techniques : 

* Lapis-Legit made with butter, if using margarine it still must be combined with butter.

* Uses a lot of egg yolk.

* Generally Lapis-Legit made with multiple stages :

   1. Margarine and butter whipped up white.

   2. Eggs whipped with sugar until fluffy and then mixed with wheat flour.

   Both are then combined, this merger should be completely flat, so that the cake is not sodden.

* Layering the dough should be as thick, if using straight walled brass, each dough should be weighed equally heavy, if using a oblique pan walled, the weights should be different so that the thickness of each layer is the same.

* The next thing to consider is the process of baking, baking done with upper fire, fire must be set, cake closer distance to the fire, the fire must be smaller, therefore if the cake is getting full, the fire must be minimized, if the fire can not be smaller, open the oven's door.

* Every time want to layer, cake should be suppressed by suppressing, so that each layer can be tightly.

* Stir the dough each time to pour, so it can be fused and not separate, also to remove the air that is inside.

Please try this Favorite Cakes when visiting Indonesia, Lapis-Legit are sold in pastry shops or bakeries.

Decorating of Cakes

Painted Cakes

There are many ways to decorate cakes, one of which is painted on the cakes.

Load a varnish soaked brush with two colours required, on one corner pick up brown dusting powder and on the opposite corner pick up white dusting powder, crush the grains of dusting powder using a brush on the piece of foil, then hold the brush vertically place it on the chisel edge and draw sweeping vines, continue overlapping strokes to build up the effect around the outline of the cakes.

Create the bow look by loading a varnish soaked brush with white and red dusting powders, prime colour on tin foil then create a looped effect with brush, paint two on either side, use the same colour to paint on the bow tails, to vary the width of the tails vary the pressure on the brush.

Reload the brush with dark and light green dusting powder, to create the leaves wiggle the brush then slide the brush back onto the chisel edge and lift off cleanly, add leaves in varying sizes along the vines on the cakes.

There are four steps to create a bud, the first step is painting a bridge shape using yellow and red dusting powder, the second step is painting a swiping U shape,

 

The third step is painting another U shape below, reload the brush at this point if your colours are not clearly defined, and the last step in creating the bud is starting on the side of the bud like painting a comma as you would write with a pen, sweeping around the bottom of the bud.

                                                          

To define the rose bud with the brush on the chisel edge paint a line hugging the bud from the base extending just above the top of the bud, load white and lilac dusting powder colours onto your brush then tip the side with lilac into dark blue to intensify the edge of the shading.

Continue mixing until all grains are crushed, paint the flowers by placing the brush on the chisel edge and pivoting the dark outside colour into a teardrop shape.

Build up the flower by overlapping the petals making sure your colours are clearly defined

Mix some varnish and yellow dusting powder together to an inky consistency and dip the end of your paintbrush handle into the paint and dot the flower center.

Build up the design by overlapping the flowers over the bow and fill in any gaps using more leaves.

This is one of the cakes painting techniques.

Wedding Cakes

Wedding Cakes

The wedding cake is one of the most important components in a wedding reception, it is no wonder that wedding cakes continue to evolve over time. Many new creations of wedding cakes are arise from time to time.

In the past wedding cakes are always decorated by two small dolls consisting of the groom and the bride, but in the present puppet groom and bride are not always be used, some will write words of Love or writing wedding vows on the wedding cakes, the others would be to decorate wedding cakes with a pair of Doves or a pair of Wedding Rings and some people are also decorate wedding cakes with a pair of cute stuffed animal shaped that can be a pair of beautiful birds or a pair of cute bears.

There are also wedding cakes which decorated with a pair Glasses of Wine, we can also decorate wedding cakes with a pair of Heart Shaped carving or a pair of Angels that symbolize the sanctity of a marriage.

 If we look, wedding cakes decoration on both the past and the present time there would be adorned with flowers, that's because The Flower symbolizes beauty. Flowers decoration on wedding cakes are also developed.

In the past flowers shaped from sugar cream but in the present there are so many kinds of the form and materials to create a nice flower on the wedding cakes, there are soft of sugar cream and also hard form of sugar to create a flower on wedding cakes and pasta of sugar can also be used for making flowers on the wedding cakes.

Now there is a way to decorate wedding cakes with painted flowers known as Floral Boutique Painted Cakes which is the wedding cakes covered with white sugar cream and the painted flowers are on it.

The shape of wedding cakes are also diverse, there are square and some are round and usually made consists of some levels. At present there are wedding cakes made from small cakes known as cupcakes, the cupcakes are arranged to form three tiered wedding cakes or a five tiered.

These are some of The Wedding Cakes.

Birthday Cakes

Birthday Cakes

To celebrate birthday we usually make cakes.The Birthday Cakes will be made with a lot of trimmings. The trimmings of the cakes decoration will vary according to the age of the person's birthday. The cakes will be decorated with dolls, baby toys, baby shoes or clothes for baby birthday.Sometimes the cakes will also be decorated with candies, sugars or chocolates with bright colourful.

Birthday cakes for children aged five to fifteen years will be decorated with bright colours too.The birthday cakes for girls will be decorated with nice doll or with cute animal, for example a cat or cute dog, a butterfly can also be used.

Someone will decorate teenage girl's birthday cakes with clothes, nice bags or funny shoes and the others will decorate the cakes with scattered colourful flowers.

The birthday cakes decoration for the boy will be different, the cute animal will be a tiger, a lion or an
elephant and a spider can also be used.

Sometimes the characters in a film is also used to decorate a birthday cakes like Superman, Spiderman or Batman. There was also a birthday cakes that decorated with sports equipment such as football or basketball or may be a soccer player.

For teens male or female who has a particular hobby or skill we can make a birthday cakes suit to their hobby for celebrate their birthday, for someone who is good at playing a musical instrument or a good singer we can decorate their birthday cakes with musical notes.

The birthday cakes decorating for adults will be more simple although there are many colours but not too bright, if the adults birthday cakes decorated with balloon, the balloon decoration will be more simple.

There was also a birthday cakes for adults decorated with sugars and chocolates or coffees.

The decoration of birthday cakes for people who are elderly is very simple, the colour also soft and usually only consist of one or two colours only, if decorated with flowers, the colour of the flowers is also soft and simple.

Thus are the decoration of birthday cakes.

Decorating of Cakes

Hearts Cakes Decorating

There are many techniques of Cakes Decorating. This is one of a simple techniques of Cakes decorating : Cakes decorating shapes of Hearts 

* To make the hearts, line a large baking sheet with baking paper. Roll out the pink icing and 100g of the red icing thinly on a surface lightly dusted with icing sugar, Cut out heart shapes from half of these pink and red icings, using a 3 cm heart-shaped cutter and transfer to the prepared sheet. Cut out larger hearts from the remaining roll-out icings, using a 4 cm heart-shaped cutter. From each large heart, cut out a smaller heart from the middle, using a 2 cm cutter. Transfer all hearts and centres to the prepared sheet, You will need about 40 heart shapes altogether. Leave for several hours or overnight, uncovered, to harden.

 

* Sandwich the cakes with half of the butter cream and all of the raspberry or strawberry jam. Place on a 28 cm cake board. Using a palette knife, spread the remaining butter cream over the top and sides of the cake.

* Cover the cake with the white icing.

* Cover the cake board with the remaining red icing.

 

* Leave to firm up overnight before decorating, if desired. Put the royal icing in a small piping bag and snip off just the tip.

* Take a couple of the larger hearts from the paper and prop them up on the top of the cake, securing them to the cake and where they lean against each other with dots of icing from the piping bag. Prop up another two hearts slightly away from the first two and then a further two. Leave for at least an hour to set.

* Once set, add all of the hearts to the cake, securing them at different angles and adding height to the centre of the cake. Do this in a few stages so the hearts have a chance to set

* Wrap the wider ribbon around the base of the cake, securing with a dot of royal icing. Wrap the thinner ribbon around the cake board, securing with a dressmaker's pin.