Cakes Based on Drinks

Perfect for New Year's Eve or a boozy brunch anytime. Three tender layers flavored with a whole cup of real pink champagne plus chopped fresh strawberries. Frosted with cream cheese frosting incorporating dried strawberry powder and more pink champagne! Decorated with three fresh strawberries and pink sugar as “bubbles”. Cheers! 3-layer, 8-inch cake 

 A very sophisticated and adult cake. Three soft, velvet yellow layers, filled with from-scratch, stovetop Baileys Irish cream pastry cream, then finished with a light, whipped coffee and cream buttercream. Decorated with monochromatic, off center swirls and frosting kisses, plus chocolate covered espresso beans and a final dusting of espresso powder. 3-layer 8 inch cake.  

So refreshing with all the flavors of the drink! Fresh mint cake with fresh, stovetop lime curd filling and Mojito buttercream. First, I grind a half cup of fresh mint leaves into sugar and add it to the cake layers, then I fill the layers with fresh lime curd with a few splashes of dark rum, and frost it all with Mojito buttercream including all three flavors. Cheers! 3-layer, 8-inch cake.

Coffee flavored cake with a boozy soak and frosting!  Three tender cake layers infused with espresso from my home machine, plus cocoa and Kahlua, are then soaked in a top shelf vodka/Kahlua syrup and then frosted with an espresso and Kahlua buttercream. Decorated with a drizzle of the syrup and chocolate covered espresso beans. . 3-layer, 8-inch cake. 

Three layers of white velvet coconut cake soaked in Meyers dark rum before being layered with fresh pineapple jam and frosted with coconut American buttercream. Toasted coconut around the outside and on top lends some crunch and texture, but you can request untoasted for an all-white look. 3-layer, 8-inch cake 

 Three super-moist layers of dark chocolate cake including a whole 12 ounces of Guinness beer, frosted between and all over with Bailey’s Irish Cream buttercream, incorporating a whole cup of Baileys. Decorated with swirls. Boozy and chocolatey goodness. 3-layer, 8-inch cake, 24 cupcakes or a 13X9 flat cake, same price. 

Three tender layers of grapefruit cake (for Paloma) or white velvet cake (for Margarita), layered with fresh, stovetop lime curd including juice and zest and frosted with real agave tequila lime buttercream! It even has a rim of salt (or sugar by request) on top. No extract is used in this cake, only fresh juice and zest. 3-layer, 8-inch cake. 

Coquito is a Puerto Rican drink  featuring coconut, warm spices and dark rum. Now you can taste it as a cake! Three tender cinnamon/nutmeg cake layers are filled with fresh, stovetop coconut pastry cream and frosted with Myers dark rum buttercream.  Yum! 3-layer, 8-inch cake. 

Take a tropical vacation with my Mango Dark and Stormy! Dive into my tender white velvet cake soaked in dark Meyer's rum, then filled with fresh, stovetop mango pastry cream and frosted all over with buttercream including lime zest and grated fresh ginger for a zingy, spicy finish. Yum! 3-layer, 8-inch cake. 

All the flavors of a Thai iced tea in a cake! I brew real Thai tea and let it steep in milk before straining and adding it to the cake batter. Later I brush the layers with sweetened condensed milk and more Thai tea before frosting with a less-sweet, cardamom Ermine frosting. Topped with a sprinkle of cardamom and orange/white frosting swirled to look like the drink. 3-layer, 8-inch cake. 

You'll be amazed by the flavor of actual Vietnamese iced coffee in this cake! To get authentic flavor, I buy two different coffees and mix them together to get the depth and chocolatey flavor, then brew the grounds in an authentic Phin drip brewer. It takes four small cups of dripped coffee mixed with condensed milk to make the pastry cream layered into fluffy yellow vanilla cake. Iced with light chocolate buttercream swirled with vanilla to look like the coffee. 3-layer, 8-inch cake. 

Is a caramel latte your go-to coffee order? Then you’ll love this cake! Three layers of soft, brown sugar espresso cake are frosted with a whipped vanilla latte buttercream and finished with a caramel drip and a dusting of organic Saigon cinnamon.  The perfect balance of caramel, vanilla, espresso and cream.  3-layer, 8-inch cake. 

If you love chai lattes, then this is the cake for you! I put tons of spices in the cake and the whipped cream cheese frosting, including ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, nutmeg, and even a little black pepper. The soft, spicy cake even includes milk steeped with real chai tea bags for extra layers of flavor. 3-layer, 8-inch cake.

Need a shot of caffeine? If you love caffe mochas (mochaccinos), this is your cake. My famous supermoist dark chocolate cake is frosted with whipped vanilla "milk" buttercream incorporating brewed Starbucks espresso. Decorated with a dusting of cocoa and  frosting swirls topped with chocolate covered espresso beans. 24 cupcakes, a 9X13 flat, or a 3-layer, 8-inch cake. 

Three layers of supermoist chocolate cake including an Abuelito hot cocoa pellet, espresso powder, cayenne pepper, chili and cinnamon! Filled with marshmallow-flavored ermine frosting which is lightly sweet. Covered with light chocolate hot cocoa buttercream and topped with dollops of ermine frosting, a scattering of mini marshmallows, two cinnamon sticks and cinnamon. Note: The cake is spicy enough to leave a soft, slow burn on the tongue. If you'd like it more or less spicy, let me know!

Three supermoist layers of chocolate cake, layered with my fresh, stovetop marshmallow fluff(!) and frosted with whipped milk chocolate buttercream. Want a S'mores cake instead? Add $3 for graham cracker deco around the sides and on top. 3-layer, 8-inch cake.

Soft, spicy gingerbread cupcakes with vanilla latte espresso buttercream and a swirl of caramel sauce with chopped toffee. Tastes like the warm, spicy winter holidays. 24 cupcakes, 13X9 flat cake or 3-layer, 8-inch cake, all same price.

If a chocolate malt were a cake! Three supermoist layers of rich, dark chocolate cake, frosted all over with light chocolate American buttercream incorporating a whole half cup of malt powder - the same malt powder you get at an ice cream shop. Decorated with crushed  Whoppers malted  milk balls around the sides, and whole ones on top. 3-layer, 8-inch cake. 

Indian Golden Milk drink, called haldi doodh in Hindi, is an ancient warm drink that combines coconut milk, turmeric, almond butter, honey and warm spices like cinnamon, cardamom and ginger. Here, I've turned Golden Milk into a pastry cream inside of super fluffy, yogurt-based chai spice cake layers and frosted it with a coconut buttercream. Decorated with a spicy ginger cookie crust and a sprinkle of turmeric on top  3-layer, 8-inch cake.   

Nostalgic fun for any kid, or former kid, who likes to drink the leftover cereal milk . First I soak Fruity Pebbles in milk and use the cereal milk for the cake batter. Then I mix more cereal with dry milk powder, salt and melted butter before I bake it to make a super crunchy cereal snack that I layer between the cake layers and also use to decorate the whipped vanilla buttercream. 3-layer, 8-inch cake.