American Baker in Germany

This time for the fourth of July I decided to make a simple sheet cake. We start out with a white frosted sheet cake. You can frost it yourself, leave it in the pan and only frost the top, or you can buy it frosted.  Then I put some buttercream in two separate bowls and added blue gel food coloring to one and red to the other.  And I mixed them through.  And I'm using three medium star tips.  I put some red, white and blue buttercream in piping bags with the star tips.  I started with red and piped some simple stars onto the sides of the cake to create stripes.  All the way around the cake.  I also got out three different sizes of star cutters.  I pressed them onto the top of the cake.  Then I filled them in with some simple stars piped to fill in the stars with blue buttercream.  I filled in all of the stars with blue.  Finally, I piped a shell border along the edge of the cake with white buttercr...

Now that I have a recipe for lemon cake, we need lemon buttercream! I decided to alter my recipe for American buttercream to be lemon flavored. Lemon American Buttercream: 3-4 cups (500g) powdered sugar 1/2 cup (125g) butter 2-4 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice Cream butter. Add powdered sugar half at a time. Add lemon juice a tablespoon at a time as needed to obtain consistency. Beat as long as you want to get the buttercream nice and fluffy. You can't overbeat this. Watch us make this simple recipe on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/kxzlG2uO8UU Schaut zu wie wir dieses einfache Rezept auf YouTube machen hier: https://youtu.be/xk13bNT94oQ

This one is a very feminine, whimsical cake. One I've been wanting to make for a while. I started out with four-inch round funfetti cake and stacked it with vanilla American buttercream.  Then I crumb-coated the cake.  And frosted it again.  Then I rolled out some pale lavender fondant.  And I covered the cake with it. But instead of smoothing it onto the cake, I left the folds in it and just trimmed it at the bottom so that it looked a little like a tablecloth.  Then I cut out a square of white fondant.  And pressed some flower texture into it.  And laid it over the cake like a second tablecloth.  Then I got out some gum paste. I rolled a ball. And cut out some small circles.  I also rolled a snake of gum paste and formed a handle and spout of the tea pot.  I placed one circle on the bottom of the tea pot and one on top to be the lid as well as a tiny ball to be the lid handle. Then I cut out four more ci...