American Baker in Germany

This is a continuation of our series on how to dress up a sheet cake. This one isn't difficult, but can be a bit time consuming. We're making soccer themed cake this time. I mixed up a batch of my vegan American buttercream. I colored some of it green and some black.  Then I covered the sides of the cake dummy with white buttercream.  And the top of the cake with green buttercream. It doesn't have to be a perfect frosting job because we're going to cover it with piping.  We put our three colors of buttercream in piping bags. The green with a grass tip, the black and the white with small star tips.  Then, I marked the green buttercream with a knife to mark the pattern of a soccer pitch.  I followed the lines with white stars.  Then I used a soccer cutter kit I had to mark the sides.  I began with the pentagon. However, I must warn you if you have one of these sets, they are not meant to cover a flat surface, rather a spherical sur...

This cake was for a family who was moving away. The family are good friends of mine and our daughters are very close friends as well. I knew I had to make them something special for when they were ready to leave. There is no preparation for saying goodbye to a close friend, but I started planning their cake maybe a month before their farewell party. I knew them well enough to know that it's not an adventure that they're looking for. It's friendship and experiences. How do you represent that in a cake? I finally decided to include a whole bunch of aspects of them as people that I think of when I think of them. First thing I think of: the cat. I knew he had to have a place of pride right on the top of the cake. I even debated carving the cake to look like a cat, but eventually decided a topper was enough. The colors of the cake had to represent them as well. A year and a half ago they had an epic princess party with a pink cake. The bottom layer, then, had to be pink. The...