American Baker in Germany

 This cake was for my daughter's tenth birthday. She specifically asked for certain things. One thing she wanted was red velvet cake. But, she didn't want it to be red. She wanted it blue. So, we colored it blue to make blue velvet cake. I made two 5-inch layers and two 4-inch layers of blue velvet cake. She also specifically asked for French buttercream, but I gently colored it blue. And I carved the cake into a mermaid tail shape. And I frosted it with French buttercream. Then I cooled the cake in the fridge. While the cake was cooling, I took a piece of cardboard and drew a fin on it. I cut out the fin from the cardboard, painted some edible glue on it, and laid it on some pink fondant and cut around it, smoothing the edges. Then I placed a skewer into the cardboard to let me insert it into the cake later. And I got out a rainbow of fondant colors. I rolled them each out, one at a time, and cut out one letter of my daughter, Sabrina's, name and a whole bunch of circles. ...

 This cake is for my daughter's baptism. In our church children are baptized at age 8. She was so excited and told me exactly how she wanted the cake to look. I made a rectangular vanilla cake and cut a pool out of the middle of the top layer.  Then I filled the cake with white chocolate ganache and filled the top part with strawberry jam. But it fit perfectly. Then I melted some white chocolate. And painted it in the middle of the pool. We do this to protect the cake from the jello mix. Then I filled it with homemade gummy bear mixture. Frosted the cake in white chocolate ganache. Then I made a German language compass. My daughter specifically requested this because someone had given her a compass for her baptism. Then I pressed out my daughter's name from a press mold using white fondant and placed it on the top of the cake. And I used another press mold to make mermaid tails. Out of several colors. And I used a seashell press mold to make seashells, starfish and seahorses o...