American Baker in Germany

Even though I already made a Mother's Day cake this year, I decided I needed another. This time, a sheet cake for Mother's Day. This design and color choices would be something my own mother would appreciate. She's a big fan of roses, so I wanted to make some for this cake. I started out coloring some buttercream a deep red. I added some red and purple food coloring to it, but discovered the purple didn't darken it so much as muted it, so I added a drop of blue instead.  The red will deepen a bit more before I get to piping.  I frosted my sheet cake with white frosting.  I also made some green with a small amount of holly green food coloring.  I also got out a few piping tips. A petal tip, a medium star tip, a leaf tip and not pictured here, I also used a small round tip.  I put deep red buttercream in piping bags with the petal tip and the small round tip, white buttercream with the star tip and green buttercream with the leaf tip.  I s...

This cake was made in honor of my surrogate mother, Bonnie Jean, and her sister, Julie, who have been my biggest supporters from the first day I wrote my first blog post. So grateful for them. And I decided they needed to be honored on Mother's day. I made a recipe of red velvet cake and filled and frosted it with vegan American buttercream.  Then I mixed up a whole bunch of pastel colors of fondant: green, blue, yellow, purple, pink and orange.  I covered the cake with pastel green fondant.  I rolled out all the other colors and used small flower cutters to cut out a whole bunch of different flowers out of every color. The kids helped me with this step.  I scattered the flowers all over the cake.  Pastel flower fun!  Then I took a ball of gum paste.  And modeled it into a simple bird shape.  I used a flat tool to add some wings and feather texture in the bird.  I pressed in some eyes with a small ball tool. I ...