mushroom cake | forest floor cake | fairy cake

a mushroom cake fit for a faerie. this forest floor was a very special commission piece for a friend.
this cake is one part forest floor and one part “pure imagination from the 1971 Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory ( I was obsessed with the mushrooms and edible buttercups). Everything is edible and delicious . I wanted it to look like someone had taken a spade to the forest floor on a cold fall morning and scooped it up. Inside is an olive oil, lemon, turmeric, poppyseed cake, preserved lemon curd and burnt honey buttercream. Mushrooms are truly the most magical organism and I loved making all these different types. Identify them in the comments if you can !
Mushrooms: marzipan + orange blossom meringue
Moss: lemon olive oil sponge cake
Leaves: chocolate mint leaves, marigold leaf crumbles, thyme, yarrow
Fallen logs: dark chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream dipped in dark chocolate
Edible earth: maple-miso dark chocolate cookie crumbs, walnuts, reishi mushroom, cocoa powder, roasted soybean flour, raisins, rice puffs
Frost: spring equinox pine sugar, spruce sea salt from OK sea salt www.okseasalt.com/
RECIPES
vanilla cake
my recipe here: • dairy-free vanilla but...
(to make lemon cake add 1/2 tsp turmeric, 1 tsp lemon zest and 1 tsp poppyseed in with dry ingredients)
vanilla buttercream
my recipe here: • best ever vanilla cake...
lemon curd
my recipe here: • VEGAN LEMON CURD WITH ...
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Hello, I'm Lauren. I've been obsessed with food my entire life. I opened my home bakery in February 2020 and it's the best thing I've ever done. I'm a self-taught baker living in Montreal, Canada.
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Cinematography and Video work by the amazing AJ Korkidakis

[@dreaea]

This is so soothing to watch

[@LaurenMcGowan]

Thank you! I really love this one!

[@Sweetthingsbyamy]

Loved seeing how you made this, It was so interesting to find out how you did the mushrooms, they didn't look like meringues! They whole cake turned out amazing!

[@LaurenMcGowan]

Thank you! Yeah! I feel like getting meringues wet is king of breaking the rules but it adds such beautiful texture!

[@deathtearsroses2316]

Looove it

[@LaurenMcGowan]

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[@EarthAngelIndigo]

So so neat 🍄

[@ajfilms]

badger badger badger badger

[@ajfilms]

mushroom MUSHROOM

[@ajfilms]

snaake! its a snaaake!

[@LaurenMcGowan]

When I tell you it took like 8 minutes for that shit to load on my basement dial up computer

[@nadic88]

ok but how do you make the cookies?

[@LaurenMcGowan]

Omg how did I not include one. You could sub any chocolate cookie. But I’ll get a recipe up soon!

[@MS-dh9gh]

Yay! Thank you!

[@gabrielanavarro5228]

I’m going to watch this video on my death bed 🍄

[@LaurenMcGowan]

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