American Baker in Germany

 At this point, it's the elephant in the room. Quarantine. Lockdown. Covid-19. Corona Virus. I decided I wanted to make a cake about it to show the things that we either use more now, or use at all because of the lockdown.  As always, we start out with a frosted sheet cake. You can frost it yourself, leave it in the pan and only frost the top, or you can buy it frosted. Then I rolled a thick slab of black fondant. Covered it with a white screen and a home button. But, although we've been using smartphones for years, it's the app Zoom that is new. Most of us hadn't used it much before Lockdown. Since? Constantly. And, of course, we use a headset to talk on our Zoom meetings. Then I rolled out some blue fondant and pressed a few lines into it. And added some straps to make it into a medical mask. This is something that those of us who don't work in the medical field had rarely even had in their hands before the pandemic. But we all have to wear constantly since. I als...