Pancakes for a groom’s cake is an unusual choice but not unheard of. I made a few stack-of-pancakes cakes and they were always a hit because they were pretty unique and people like pancakes, so they were fun to have at a reception.
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This was a groom’s cake that looked like a stack of pancakes.
I’d seen pancake cakes done with rolls of fondant around the edge of a stack of round cakes, but that wasn’t what I was going for.
I wanted thicker buttermilk pancakes, so I used buttercream and a torch.
I cut the layers in slices like you do when you’re torteing a cake, then stacked the thin layers slightly offset so that it looked like pancakes that were piled on top of each other.
The layers were iced in beige buttercream as I added each one, then I added a very thin layer (1/16″ thick or so) of fondant on the edge that would be showing when the next layer would be put on.
I used a culinary torch to caramelize the fondant so that it looked like it had been in the pan. If you do this on the fondant it will start cooking the fondant and making it darker, so you can achieve a mottled look on each slice by moving the torch around.
The next layer was put on top of that so that the piece of fondant showed, and I continued to stack the layers that way.
The syrup was cooked sugar that was poured over the cake when it cooled down, and the butter was made of modeling chocolate. You can also use piping gel with brown food coloring in it to create the syrup look, since you can drip that and it will keep some of the thick-looking syrup look that you want on a stack of pancakes.
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