A few months ago Paul's dad asked for a jelly donut cake. For Father's day, we wanted to make this happen. It turns out that there is more to making a jelly donut cake than can be conveniently accomplished in a tiny, residential kitchen. The goal was to make a cake that looked and tasted like a jelly donut. Without a huge frying device, this would be difficult. We wound up ditching the donut shape and taste ideas, and just made a fun looking cake instead.
This first plan was to make a cream puff and fill it with jelly. We made a large cream puff, mixed some frosting with raspberry jelly, and came up with this:
It tasted great, albeit sugary, but not donut like. With time running out, and it seeming like the only way to really do the original design was with frying a huge donut, we went to plan B:
Rather than one donut, we made a box of donuts! That's better, right? The cake is homemade sponge filled with homemade raspberry mousse. It is covered in fondant, the store bought kind, and the swirl pattern was created by simply not mixing the coloring in completely.
