American Baker in Germany

 This was an order for a farewell cake for a missionary. I started out with a 9-inch round vanilla cake filled and frosted with chocolate Swiss meringue buttercream. I had also made a 6-inch square cake that I trimmed to be about the shape and size of a book. And I frosted it on a piece of cardboard. And I added a strip of white fondant around three sides of the book. And I added a top cover of blue fondant. Then I added the round cake with white fondant. I placed the book cake on top of the cake and added a bottom cover. I wrapped a white collar around the cake and the shape of a green tie. I added the title of the book, Das Buch Mormon. Then I cut out a black rectangle. And I used these cookie letters with this press to put the letters into the badge. Only to completely mess up the name by placing it backwards. So, one more time.... And I finally got it right. I painted in the letters with white food coloring and paint the name of the church with the same white food coloring. I r...

This cake was a suggestion from my husband. There was a Spanish family who was getting baptized in our church. My husband encouraged me to make them a cake for the baptism. Since it wasn't a commission, I had a lot of freedom of design. But since they were Spanish speakers, I wanted to do something that celebrates that. Keep in mind that I don't speak Spanish even a little bit, so I could only hope that Google translate didn't let me down. I decided to make this cake vegan chocolate cake with dark chocolate ganache. Any particular reason? Not really. I just had some leftover dark chocolate ganache in the freezer and thought it went best with chocolate cake. I started out a couple days beforehand cutting out the words from a slightly orangy-yellow fondant. I used a fondant press mold to cut out the letters for the words El Libro de Mormon, plus accent over the o, and the date of the baptism. Then I used my tap it alphabet to cut out the words for Congratulations in Spa...