American Baker in Germany

I'm a strong proponent of twins having their own cakes. When a friend of ours told us their twin girls' birthdays were coming up, I offered to make them each their own cake. I asked them seperately what they wanted  and colors/themes. This is the first one. Stay tuned for the second. This girl told me she wanted chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream with the theme soccer. And that her favorite color was navy blue. I immediately thought of my sphere cake pan. I wanted to make her a soccer ball cake. I apologize for the lack of photos in this post. I realized after the fact that I had neglected to take as many photos of the process that I usually do. However, I baked one six inch layer of vegan chocolate cake and one sphere pan of vegan chocolate cake. I layer the sphere cake into two layers and whipped up a batch of chocolate American buttercream. I assembled the cake on a cake board, starting with the six inch round layer with buttercream between the layers and the sp...

This post was not sponsored or affiliated with LOL Surprise! All images and logos used with permission. Since I bake cakes, my daughter has learned that she can make any request, and I'll try to fulfill it if I can. Consequently, she can be very specific about what she wants for her birthday cakes. This year, she told me she wants a chocolate funfetti checkerboard cake. What topic? Her favorite things of all time: LOL Surprise dolls. To make a checkerboard cake, you have to have at least 3 layers, 4 is better, so to avoid making the cake really really tall, I cut each layer in half to make it half the height I normally would. With all those layers, I decided to make Swiss meringue buttercream to fill it with instead of American buttercream to keep it from being too sweet and just make it more pleasant to eat. In case you don't know how to make a checkerboard cake, you measure your round cake and divide it by 3. This will be the diameter of your smallest circle in the middle...