American Baker in Germany

 This monster of a cake was an order from a friend of mine for her son's baptism.  I started out making a 9-inch lemon cake. And I frosted it with lemon Swiss meringue buttercream. And I stacked a 7-inch chocolate cake on a piece of cardboard covered in aluminum foil filled and frosted with milk chocolate Swiss meringue buttercream. And I cut another piece of cardboard about the size of the book cake I wanted to make. Then I trimmed the chocolate cake the size I wanted. And I filled and frosted the cake with chocolate Swiss meringue buttercream. I cooled each cake in the fridge while I worked on the other tiers. I frosted each tier again. I covered the lemon cake with white fondant. I covered the middle tier with blue fondant. I rolled out some white fondant and pressed some wooden skewers into it. And I wrapped it around three sides of the cake. Then I rolled out some dark red fondant and cut it as close to the size as possible and laid it over the cake to be the cover of the...

 This sheet cake was inspired by the movie The Neverending Story. I thought it was especially appropriate because the book was written by Michael Ende originally in German as Die unendliche Geschichte. It's a play on words for the author's last name, Ende. NeverENDing. So, since the book is German and the movie was American, I thought it appropriate for my channel. So, I started out frosting a sheet cake dummy with vegan American buttercream. Then I rolled out some white fondant and scratched some texture into it. And I wrapped it around three sides of the cake. Then I rolled out some chocolate fondant and cut it about the right size to be the front cover of the book. And I laid it over the top. I was pretty close to the right size. Then I rolled out a snake of brown fondant into the u-shape of the bottom cover. And I placed it up against the cake to be the back cover of the book and trimmed it to size. Then I pressed out the words The Neverending Story out of ivory fondant. An...