American Baker in Germany

 I've never made a striped buttercream cake before. I know that's weird. Of all the cakes I've made before, I've never jumped on the striped buttercream trend. I thought it was time. On a whim, I decided to make a three-tiered cake. I have three tiers of cake dummies. So, I colored some buttercream three shades of purple. I started with the bottom tier. I frosted it with white buttercream. I used a cake comb to create the stripes. I put the darkest color of purple in a piping bag and filled in the stripes. I smoothed the sides to look like stripes. And I smoothed the top as well. Then I did the same thing with the center tier. And the top tier. And I stacked it. No dowels needed on a cake dummy. So, my three purples are still in the piping bags. I placed the entire bag into another bag with a Wilton 1M tip. I piped a star border along the bottom of the tier, beginning with the top tier. And I piped a few dollops on top of the cake. I piped star borders along the bottom ...