Brown on Brown Buttercream Cake

This cake was for my own birthday. Comes around every year. This year, I wanted a maple cake.

So, this is a 6-inch maple cake filled and frosted with maple Swiss meringue buttercream. 

I also put the maple buttercream in two piping bags with medium open star tips. There was a lighter brown and a darker brown. If you saw my recipe on maple buttercream, I explain that it is naturally off white. But I feel that people don't taste a flavor properly unless it looks like it tastes like it does. So, I colored the majority of the buttercream with brown food coloring with a bit of red to warm up the color and I colored some of it a darker brown using the same method.

I first started piping with the lighter brown. I piped a star border along the bottom of the cake.

Then I piped a reverse shell border along the top edge of the cake. This is a twist in opposite directions: right, then left.

Then I piped some swirls on top of the cake.

And I piped a border along the top side of the cake.

Then, I switched to the darker brown. I piped dark brown stars over the light brown stars.
 

Then I piped some stars in the twists along the top of the cake as well as around the top and on the swirls.

Then I piped some dark brown twists around the side of the cake. This are like short swirls.

Finally, I piped some light brown stars between the dark brown twists.

I love how this cake turned out. It's fancy without having bright, overbearing colors.

And, true confessions, I've always loved the color brown. I think it's beautiful. It makes me think of wood furniture and chocolate and my daughter's gorgeous brown eyes.

So, happy birthday to me. :)

Watch me make this pretty cake on my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/-V8TefJ49iE
Schaut zu wie ich diese schöne Torte auf meinem YouTube Kanal mache hier: https://youtu.be/8zOHo_TRAps