American Baker in Germany

So, there's a trend going around called a sugar sheet. I wanted to try it out, so this is my experience with it. To make a sugar sheet, you need 2 1/4 cup (450g) of sugar, 3 generous tablespoons of glucose syrup, although corn syrup should work as well. And food coloring of your choice. You can also use more or less sugar depending on the size of your project, but you'll need one generous tablespoon of glucose for every 150g of sugar or 3/4 cup of sugar you use.  You'll also need the largest baking tray you have and line it with parchment paper.  Put your sugar and food coloring in a plastic bag.  Combine until the color is all the way through the sugar.  Then add the glucose syrup.  And combine as well as you can. Some will stick to the sides of the bag.  Then dump everything out onto the parchment-lined baking tray and knead the rest of the glucose through the sugar.  You will need to wash your hands.  The sugar shou...

Shades of pink and red. Hearts. Petals. What could be more romantic and more appropriate for Valentine's Day? First I frosted my sheet cake with white buttercream.  I got out four similar sized round piping tips.  I had two bowls of buttercream.  which I colored with pink food coloring. One with significantly more coloring than the other.  I mixed them through and I had two different shades of pink.  I also had white and red buttercream. I put all four colors into piping bags with the large round piping tips.  The technique is called a petal technique. There are a couple ways to do this. You can pipe a blog and use the back of a spoon to smear it in one direction. But my favorite way is to pipe the blob and pull in one direction with the piping tip.  I kept the same order of the colors all along and set the pattern down one every row.  I continued this pattern all the way along the sides of the cake.  And all the ...