American Baker in Germany

 This cake was an order from a friend of mine for her daughter's fifth birthday. The day before, I made a figure of Red Riding Hood. I rolled a white cone and cut off the tip. Then I added a red stripe around the bottom of the dress. And I rolled some flesh-colored arms and added them to the figure. And I added a sphere of flesh-colored fondant and secured it with a toothpick. I pressed in a very simple face. Just eye holes and a mouth. I added some brown triangles on the head. And a couple more for pigtails. I cut out a dome of red. And wrapped it around the figure. And I used a press mold to make some small bows out of red fondant and placed them in the hair and under the chin. And I painted on some black eyes and ivory eyebrows and mouth. And I added a tiny dot of flesh-colored fondant for the nose. And let's get this out of the way. I know she doesn't have hands. Hands are hard. This is a 7-inch chocolate chip cake and vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream. This is this fa...

 This was a cake I just wanted to make. Like what if someone wanted a castle cake for a wedding. Let's see what I can come up with. I decided to use one 8-inch cake dummy, two 6-inch and two 4-inch. I frosted the cake dummies and covered them in white fondant. And stacked them to one side of the cake board. Then I used this brick texture mat to make the castle look like it's made out of white bricks. I pressed it along the edges of the fondant cake. Then I rolled out some pale brown fondant and pressed it with this wood texture mat. Then I cut out a door from the wood grain. As well as several windows. I used the brick texture mat on white fondant and cut it into strips. Then I used it to frame the windows. As well as the door. I made a long snake of green fondant and wrapped it around the whole castle. Then I added leaves to the vines. And finally lots of tiny pink roses and one larger one on top of the cake. I absolutely love it. It's exactly the romantic castle I wanted ...