American Baker in Germany

I've already written a blog post on this subject before when I made the Shamrock Baptism Cake. However, I felt that it needed to be redone. And I wanted to make a video out of it. So, here we go again! Surprise inside cakes are when you cut into a cake and there's a hidden image inside the cake itself. It's super fun and it leads people to ask, "How did you do that?" Let me show you how. You're going to need two colors of cake. I split one batch of vanilla cake and colored it, but you can also use two different flavors. It is very important that the two colors be different enough that you can see the different colors when they are next to each other.  Whichever cake color you want to be on the inside, go ahead and bake up. Just bake it in the same size cake pan that you want your cake to be. It should also be fairly deep, so make sure you have enough batter to bake up a layer of cake at least one inch deep.  Mine is pink, but you can make your surpri...

I didn't make this cake for any particular event. This was just a design I thought was beautiful and wanted to make. So, I made it for us. Consequently, I only made it using one batch of vanilla cake baking it in a five and four inch baking pans. For a ballet cake, though, we need a lot of pink fondant. I didn't have much. I only had a bit of dusty rose, a bit of store-bought pink and some white that I mixed all together.  The color turned out kind of a baby pink. That was just what I wanted.  Then I made two fat sausage shapes out of the baby pink fondant. I wanted them to be about the same size.  Then I used a knife to cut out an oval of fondant out of the middle to form the ballet slippers.  I smoothed the bottom with a ball tool and the edges with my fingers.  I used this fondant press mold to make a couple of small bows.  This is what they look like when you press them out.  I picked my favorite two and stuck them on the sli...