September 11th Memorial Cake
It's been 20 years since September 11th, 2001. I can't believe it's been 20 years. I was in college when the twin towers were destroyed. I remember it so vividly. I will never forget. I knew that I had to make a memorial cake. I am definitely not trying to trivialize anything. This is just how I work through my own feelings about what I experienced that day and hope that is speaks to others as well. I made a batch of vegan American buttercream and colored it black, red, blue and two shades of green. I frosted a sheet cake dummy with white buttercream. I printed out a picture of the lower 48 United States. I traced around the cut out with a toothpick. And I traced the outline of the twin towers inside the US map. They look different because the twin towers actually didn't line up. They were more like catty corner from each other. They weren't in a line. So, no matter where you were standing when looking at them, the perspective would never be exact. Then I put the bu...