Last week I made 2 cakes in 2 days...it was kind of intense. I made a second attempt at my cake from last post, and ran into some more issues. But this time I discovered the issue - my pan. Friends, take this piece of advice from me: DON'T BUY CHEAP CAKE PANS!! However with much determination I was able to make it work. I'll be honest, I kind of called it in on this cake.
When you have laundry to do, a house to clean, a co-dependent puppy to take care of and a cake for a customer to tend to, its kind of hard to dig in and find the motivation to go all-out for a cake for the office (gotta keep those co-workers happy, right?). So, let's all be honest, this first cake is not up-to-par with my potential, but I think we all deserve one of those once in a while...right?
This was a butter vanilla cake with blackberry icing. It needed more roses, but at midnight I was just ready to go to bed. The roses looked awesome, though (in my own humble opinion, of course).
But now, my pride and joy!
My friend Yo-yo was celebrating her 13 year anniversary, and her daughter Lani was also celebtrating her second birthday. So, Yo-yo and I collaborated to make a cake for her family that could tie both together. We decided on antique colors: mauve, ivory and gold. Yo-yo came up with the writing that would go on the cake, and requested a strawberry cake. So I created this:
I know, I know, the writing is off-center and kind of crooked. BUT this is my first attempt at writing on a cake, and I think it's pretty good for my first time. (Here's another piece of advice: wash your tips as soon as you finish using them! I WANTED to use a tip #2, but it was still dirty from the last time I used it, so I resolved to a #4, which resulted in fatter letters and a little bit sloppier looking writing.)
This indeed was a strawberry cake, with a butter vanilla filling. The base icing on the cake was strawberry, and the flowers were butter vanilla.
The cake had edible gold beads, and the border was ivory butter-vanilla "pearls." There were 13 roses on the cake, and I finished it all off with an edible glitter. When I put the cake in the box I almost cried I was so proud of my cake.
Yo-yo texted me a few days later and said she thought this was the best cake I've made so far. Without having a piece of the cake myself, I'd still have to agree with her. Happy Anniversary Yo-yo, and Happy Birthday Lani!
So, now my co-dependent 60-pound dog is trying to climb into my lab while I'm writing this. Be on the lookout for my next post...I'll be making my absolute favorite cake in the world for the first time: a German Chocolate Cake! Yum!
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