American Baker in Germany

This year, I decided to make a cake for new year's eve. This is what I came up with. I started out coloring my buttercream black.  It took a couple of attempts,  But it eventually darkened to a point that I was happy with it.  Then I frosted my sheet cake with the black buttercream.  I also had several different colors of sprinkles I wanted to use. Gold, silver and pearl.  I used a cake pan to impress a large circle.  And I put some white buttercream in a piping bag with a small round tip.  I traced the circle with the white buttercream.  Then I piped the Roman numerals onto the clock.  I also piped some clock hands pointing to twelve.  Then I piped some fireworks onto the corners and along the sides by simply piping some stars.  I added some gold star sprinkles.  And I added gold and pearl sprinkles onto the fireworks as well as some white sanding sugar on the top of the cake. ...

Turns out there's a difference between self-raising and self-rising flour. I needed self-raising flour for a recipe, so I learned how to make it. Self-Raising Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose flour 2 tsp baking powder  Simply replace the self-raising flour with this mixture and you're golden. Easy peasy. Watch us make it on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/G-9cj1LWMZU Schaut zu wie wir es auf YouTube machen hier: https://youtu.be/5COSAAVR9Xc

This was my very first wedding cake. At least officially. I've made plenty of cakes that could have been wedding cakes, but this was the first cake I've made that was actually for a wedding. When I asked my friend what she wanted, she pointed at my architecture inspired farewell cake for inspiration. But she needed different colors. In red and green, she said. What kind of red and green? Forest green and bordeaux red. Forest green wasn't too hard. I was actually able to buy some already colored. Bordeaux red is a bit harder. I started out with some red fondant.  Then I added some black.  Now, I cannot explain at all why, but mixing black with red fondant turns it kind of muted and not at all dark. I had noticed that before.  So, I added more red gel food coloring to get the brightness back.  I wasn't quite sure if I was finished, but I decided to try this one.  I rolled out a piece.  And cut out some circles.  And made two r...