American Baker in Germany

 This year for the fourth of July, I just wanted to do some piping and let the colors speak for themselves. So, I colored some vegan American buttercream red and blue and left some white. And I chose a star tip and a round tip for each color. And I put the buttercream in piping bags. I frosted a 6-inch round cake dummy with white vegan American buttercream. I piped a shell border along the bottom with red. And I piped some swirls on top of the cake with red. And I piped some blue swirls between the red swirls. And I piped some shells with blue buttercream pointing down on the side of the cake and a red star under the blue shell. And I piped some red drop lines with the points above the shells. And I added some blue drop lines above the red ones with a thin white drop line above the blue one. And I covered the points of the drop lines with a white shell, adding a white star between the red shells along the bottom border. Then I added some more red and blue swirls on top of the cake....

Ready-made graham cracker crusts are not available in Germany, or even most of the world. So, I thought I'd try making it myself. Fortunately, they're not too hard, and are something everyone should be able to make, in my opinion. Homemade Graham Cracker Crust: 1 1/2 (200g) cups fine graham cracker crumbs (try substituting wheat butter cookies if you can't find graham crackers) 1/2 cup (100g) sugar 1/2 cup (125g) melted butter Make sure your crumbs are really fine, as fine as you can make them.  Stir in sugar.  Stir in melted butter until mixture resembles wet sand.  Firmly press into two 8-inch pie plates.  Bake at 375°F or 190°C for 5-7 minutes. Don't allow it to brown much.  Remove from oven and allow to cool completely. Watch us make this simple recipe on our YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/rNpjB1IdAHs Schaut zu wie wir dieses einfaches Rezept auf unserem YouTube Kanal machen hier: https://youtu.be/A1tphZSQLQ0

 After making a pride cake, I realized that there is one group from the LGBTQ+ community that can sometimes get overlooked. What began as a discussion about sexuality ended up in a discussion about gender. Transgender people can sometimes be excluded from pride movements if they're not also homosexual. That's not right. Transgender people go through so much. The lease we can do as human beings is treat them as human beings as well. I started out frosting a 4-inch cake dummy with vegan American buttercream. Then I started out with the transgender flag on the top of the cake. The transgender flag has a stripe of blue, a stripe of pink, white, pink and blue. Blue represents typically male, pink typical female and white gender neutral. The design is symmetrical so no matter which way you fly it, you’re correct. I have a total of 5 flags to make for the side, so I marked the edges of where I want to place the flags. This first flag on the side is a gender queer flag. The gre...