See if you can keep up with me here. A cake for 50 people and it’s the summer. My inspiration for this cake came from my stage last summer in Chef Iuzzini’s kitchen. His Sous Chef, AJ Bellarosa, made a wedding cake with lime scented white chocolate mousse filling and creme brulee pellets throughout the mousse layer. At that moment, It just stuck with me, what kind of cakes I would be making. Cakes that were desserts and not just, cake and buttercream (which is absolutely fantastic and OK, just not what I would want).
PHOTOS: Danielle Bilton
The font and the soccer ball, were done by tracing a print out under a piece of acetate with melted and colored white chocolate.
I should also mention as the cake layers were cooling, I had spread the thinnest layer of seedless raspberry jam on each layer. I just thought the hint of the raspberry flavor was necessary to accent the fresh lime zest.
At the end of the party, all that was left was the soccer ball. People actually went back for thirds!