American Baker in Germany

This cake came about because my seven-year-old was jealous of a cake I made for her sister. But hey, I make cakes pretty often. Why not? I frosted a couple cake dummies. One six inch. One four inch. Then I covered both cakes with blue fondant. I stacked them on top of each other forming one flat edge. I also rolled out some blue fondant the same color as the background and cut it in an oval to form the background of my image. This is the image my daughter picked out. I mixed some white fondant with pink and colored it with ivory gel food coloring. When I mixed it through, it turned into a lovely skin tone. I rolled it out and cut out the shape of the mermaid's body using the template. I placed it on the blue background with enough space for the hair and mermaid tail. Then I cut out the hair out of yellow fondant. Then I cut out the mermaid tail out of pink fondant. I textured it with a round piping tip to create the scales and a flat sculpting tool to make the fins. And I placed it...

I developed this recipe myself, as a non-Southern person. So, I am not claiming this is authentic Southern. But, it does taste amazing. Red Velvet Cake: 2 cups (450 mL) buttermilk 2/3 cup (150 mL) oil 1 tbsp vinegar 1 1/2 cups (300g) sugar 3 tbsp cocoa powder 1 tbsp vanilla extract dash salt 1 1/2 tsp baking soda 2 cups flour red food coloring Add buttermilk, oil, vinegar and sugar into a large mixing bowl and mix with a spoon or whisk until sugar is dissolved. Add cocoa powder and vanilla extract and combine. Then add the dry ingredients and whisk until no clumps of flour are left. Finally, add red food coloring until the desired color is achieved. Bake at 350°F or 180°C for 35-45 minutes or until toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Watch us make this easy recipe on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/AMr0WEfqig8 Schaut zu wie wir dieses leichtes Rezept auf YouTube machen hier: https://youtu.be/mX_SQlvjxfs

One of the first questions I had regarding cake decorating was how would you dress up a sheet cake for a funeral? Well, I rarely go to funerals, so I haven't been asked for a cake for a funeral before, so I've avoided this topic for a while. But I can't avoid it forever. It was past time to try a cake for a funeral. So this is my best try. I colored some buttercream muted pink, dark purple and leaf green. When making a cake for a funeral, try to stick to muted, cool, or neutral colors. Avoid very bright, particularly primary colors. You also need a frosted sheet cake. You can frost it yourself, leave it in the pan and only frost the top, or you can buy it frosted. Put the buttercream in piping bags. Green buttercream with a leaf tip, purple, pink and ivory with medium star tips. I first made a simple star border along the bottom of the cake. This is really easy. It's just a simple squeeze and release. I grouped pink rosettes in an arch on one side and a small group on t...