this is perhaps one of the most elaborate layer cakes on the book, ROSE’S heavenly CAKES: Woody’s Lemon Luxury Layer Cake (page 409).  i am using organic sugar (non-superfine), hawaiian alaea salt: and accurately measured aluminum-free baking powder:

great lemon curd for ROSE’S heavenly CAKES: Woody’s Lemon Luxury Layer Cake (page 409).

white chocolate is mostly cocoa butter, sugar, and milk.  when turned into the white chocolate lemon buttercream from ROSE’S heavenly CAKES: Woody’s Lemon Luxury Layer Cake (page 409), refrigerate and enjoy like a custardy ice cream.

one thing leads to others.  Luca is made of white chocolate, so i decided to decorate his birthday cake with the best white chocolate buttercream i know of:  the white chocolate lemon buttercream; from ROSE’S heavenly CAKES: Woody’s Lemon Luxury Layer Cake (page 409).  i omitted the lemon curd. it turned out shapely and perfectly [...]