American Baker in Germany

This is a continuation of our series on how to dress up a sheet cake. I wanted to make navy blue buttercream, so I added a good amount of blue food coloring to light purple buttercream. However, dark colors can be sometimes difficult to obtain. If you're having trouble, try letting the buttercream set overnight. The colors will naturally darken with time.  As usual, we begin with a frosted sheet cake. You can frost it yourself, like I did, you can leave it in the pan and just frost the top, or you can buy it frosted.  Then I put white and blue buttercream in piping bags with star tips. I only used star tips to decorate this cake. One white and the blue with medium star tips and one white with a small star tips.  I piped a shell border along the bottom of the cake.  Then I piped some c-shaped scroll work in the corners of the cake.  And some s-shapes between them.  Then I piped some fleur de lis in the corners. A fleur de lis is basica...