Those are layered mousse cakes made with recipes and silicone molds by the Ukrainian pastry chef Dinara Kasko :)
Hey it’s me, your brother. Sorry I couldn’t make it to pop’s birthday but you can just mail my piece(s) to me
haha i’m sorry you missed the party, i hope it arrives not too much flattened in the envelope ☺️
Works of art. They look delicious!
thank you so much! it took four days to finish everything but it was worth it, i need to buy more molds to be able to scale up the operation, mixing more ingredients at once is the same amount of work, but god it’s so much cleaning, 15 different preparations, each time a sink full with pots, whisks, spoons, bowls… :)
Okay dude. How can you get such realistic looking lighting and backdrop for your Blender renders???
Seriously though those cakes look damn unreal.
i’ve started learning blender this week, by following the famous Donut tutorial by Blender Guru, i’ll let you know when i manage to do that ^^
the velvet technique is just amazing, the cake are frozen solid and then i use a paint pistol with an air compressor to project a molten mix of cocoa butter and white chocolate with food coloring on the cake. the temperature difference makes the droplets freeze instantly
dude this is cool af
the cake are frozen solid and then i use a paint pistol with an air compressor to project a molten mix of cocoa butter and white chocolate with food coloring on the cake
Oh, okay. So pretty simple stuff, really.
2 hours later
So, I shot the paint can with my pistol and that just started leaking everywhere. So I moved on to my molten cocaine butter knifes, but I couldn’t find my cake in the whole mess. I figured if I used the air compressor to fill my projector with the cocaine lava and white chocolate, things would kinda just come together, but that splashed in my eyes, which really stung. Anyway, can you drive me to the hospital?
lol have you been spying in my kitchen? the first time i tried using the compressor, it was set to the max pressure (8 bar), and i sprayed 100g of chocolate into the air in 2 seconds. everything around was covered in a thin layer of chocolate, in a heavy haze, it took days to get everything cleaned 🙀
Just so you know in the future, that method of painting is called airbrushing, and the whole setup is called an airbrush.
ty good to know!
Fake! I don’t see the default cube anywhere!
The first pic had nine default cubes and some raspberries 🤔
someday i’ll pile up three of those, you’ll be the first to know ^^
What the hell…. I want to tell you how awesome this is but I don’t know how. Seriously, no words, sorry.
i think you just did 🫶❤️
❤️ I think I would cry if someone ever presented something like this to me, I don’t know if I could bring myself to eat it. Thank you for sharing and responding so kindly to a complete stranger in awe at your art. Those close to you are fortunate in so many ways most will never know. All the thought, preparation, practice, effort, self recognition, grounded personality. You are unreal, this thread has been in my mind since I initially saw it and you helped me find my words, thank you for that. I wish you nothing more in life than you present to it, only because more doesn’t exist.
that’s so kind of you! i wish i could share more than how it looks but if a lemming ever visits my corner of the planet (SW Germany), i’d absolutely share :)
my go to answer when the guests say they don’t dare to eat it is: the sooner it’s gone, the sooner i can bake something new ^^
here’s a photo gallery from cakes i made during my online lessons last spring
Damn, no wonder it took 4 days. Very cool.
Wow, this is beautiful. You should go on Cake Boss or whatever the cake competition show is called.
i’ve had this suggestion numerous times, but at the end of the day i hate competition and i’ll rather bake for my loved ones instead :)
You’re wise to recognize that. Competition is a good way to suck the joy out of something you love. It’s just really amazing, world-class art you’ve created here, which is why I suggested it. But it’s totally okay to keep something outstanding for yourself and your loved ones.
it’s probably better entertainment to have a competition of some kind on TV ^^
i already get requests from friends and colleagues and i can already tell you: im never making a Paw Patrol cake for a 3yo ever xD
Now do a Companion Cube cake.
that would be an idea! it’s such a great motive :D
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=portal+cube+cake&t=iphone&iax=images&ia=images
that was my first thought too!
But the cake isn’t a lie?!?
First pic made me immediately think the same! I’d be so happy if my kid did that for me, if only for the humor of it and our shared love of the game.
I like the “bananas” and “oranges” aesthetic.
This post is simply amazing. I don’t think I couldanage these results, even with a week to spare. Exceptional work!
it takes some learning and i had courses to learn it, but fundamentally it’s not complex, just many small steps and a crapton of ingredients + utensils :)
I watch a lot of baking shows and your cake is easily the most beautiful cake I’ve ever seen!
oh wow that’s quite the compliment 🫶 I strive to make everything as beautiful as possible, I come from France where pastry is ubiquitous, but I now live in Germany and it’s almost impossible to buy something really nice, so i took online pastry lessons last year to learn how to make stuff myself ^^
Wow those are beautiful, what are the flavors?
oh i forgot to write that, thank you for asking
the white one is a champagne mousse cake with a layer of raspberry jam, champagne jelly, a sponge cake with blueberries and a crunchy bottom layer with milk chocolate and hazelnut
the bananas have a banana caramel core, an orange juice dark chocolate mousse and a cocoa sponge cake (lactose and gluten free), on a vanilla-butter cookie
the whirls are greek yogurt mousse with a blue berry jam core encased in a passion fruit white chocolate ganache, cocoa almond sponge cake, on a vanilla-butter cookie
That all sounds delicious 😊
also thank you for adding photos of the process in the comments!
you’re welcome :) i just posted more pictures into another reply if you want to check them out. Doing online pastry courses, i got used to documenting everything for my teachers
Two questions, because I’m going to try something similar hear soon: 1.) Do you process the jam somehow? How do you get it to layer smoothly? I’m assuming you’d heat it up. Wouldn’t that mess with the mousse outside, or do you build the core separately and then creat the outside after?
2.) the mousse layer looks like icecream, how did you get that mousse cake so smooth?
3…) what is champagne jelly? Is it literally champagne with enough pectin to create a jelly out of it?
Lastly, are you a chef? Not many people would go out of there way for such an intricate cake. Looks fantastic! How was the flavor? Was it too rich?
thank you so much for all the questions!
- and 3) the cores are prepared in advance, in a frozen state, and added to the final assembly
the jam is made by heating up frozen raspberries (or fresh if in season) to 40°C, then adding caster sugar mixed with pectin NH (an ammonia processed pectin that has a high firmness) and add citric acid, then boil for 2 minutes (to activate the pectin)
the liquid jam is then poured into a square metal frame lined with plastic wrap, and put overnight into the freezer to make a solid slab
the next day, i heated champagne in a pot with caster sugar and gelatin, and poured it over the raspberry jelly, then put back into the freezer, making a slab with both fillings
- the mousse is made by heating up champagne with sugar and gelatin to 40°C to melt the gelatin, then left to cool to 35°C and after that i incorporated high fat whipped cream (35% fat).
then half the mousse is poured into the silicone mold, the frozen raspberry and jelly layer is pushed into it (like on the picture). then more mousse and finally I put the sponge cake layer.
everything goes back into the freezer overnight to get as solid as possible, so it’s possible to take it out of the mold without being damaged
here are photos of the unmolding of a different cake i made in this mold, but same procedure
I am not a chef, but I booked last year online courses with the Culinary School of Kyiv (KICA), to learn from the pastry chef who made those geometric silicone molds how to use them. It was really helpful and now I’m able to make stuff that look professionally made, it’s extremely satisfying ^^
most steps of the recipes require maybe 30 to 60 minutes to complete and then the result goes into the freezer, so it’s perfect to do early morning or when i finish work, at the end of the week it’s done :)
Thanks for the write up. I’ll have to try this here soon. The champagne mousse sounds awesome.
i’ll dm you the recipe
These are really insanely gorgeous perfection
But as I read your replies in the thread I am more and more impressed at what a disaster zone your kitchen must have felt like and the endless cleaning That is a lot of love right there. Sounds like a lucky dad.
ty ^^
the disaster, fifteen times in a row:
Awe you’re being humble; hiding all the counter cleaning and I suspect these are just the pieces you prefer to handwash.
Honestly, the best picture is big guy morgunkorn hunched over airbrushing pastries, doing what he loves.
Cakes look amazing, I might need to pick up another hobby. Great job my dude.
tysm ❤️ someday i’ll ditch the computer to do that full time instead :)
Looks amazing!
SCRUMPTIOUS
CUBE
This calls for a tic-tac-toe game ☺️
