Buttercream Relief Society Birthday Cake

 This cake was for the Relief Society birthday celebration at my church. The Relief Society is the women's organization for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

I baked two layers of cake in a 13x9 inch cake pan: one chocolate and one vanilla. I filled it with vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream.  


Then I frosted the cake with vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream. 
Then I frosted it again with vegan American buttercream. Vegan American buttercream is much prettier than other buttercreams, but doesn't taste very good. It's much too sweet and almost flavorless. So, I first frost the cake with the buttercream that tastes good and frost it again with the pretty buttercream. 
Then I color some buttercream blue without a tip and gold (using yellow and a bit of brown) with a round tip and white with a medium open star tip. 
I used a circle cutter to mark a circle in the middle of the cake.
Then I filled it in with blue. 

And I smoothed it with a spatula.
And I marked it with the German Relief Society logo.
Then I piped over the logo with light gold buttercream.
And I piped a shell border along the bottom and stars along the top edge of the cake.
And I wrote the words "Die Liebe hört niemals auf" (German for "charity never faileth") on the top of the cake.
Then I piped over the words with the gold buttercream. 

I piped some blue stars along the bottom border.
And some blue stars around the logo.
And more stars below the upper border.
And I filled in the sides with gold dots.
Then I piped some hearts in the white spots on top of the cake.
I love how this cake turned out. 

It's so pretty.
Happy birthday to the relief society.





Watch me make this pretty cake on my YouTube channel here:  https://youtu.be/Hskeml2JCHQ
Schaut zu wie ich diese schöne Torte auf meinem YouTube Kanal mache hier: https://youtu.be/9iya2KOCy3s

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