American Baker in Germany

This cake was for the Kindergarten celebration of my daughter's birthday. You know you have to bring something for the kids to celebrate together. Our topic? Strawberries.  So, I baked two layers of 10-inch round strawberry cake dyed pink.  I filled it with strawberry buttercream.  And frosted it with it as well.  I made sure to frost thick enough so you couldn't see the cake through the frosting.  Then I smoothed the frosting pretty well.  Then I filled a piping bag with a French piping tip and strawberry buttercream.  Then I piped dollops onto the top of the cake.  I piped a total of eight dollops regularly spaced around the cake.  Then I piped little points at the bottom of the cake.  And finally, I placed whole strawberries between the dollops on the top of the cake.  This cake is super simple, but absolutely gorgeous.  It's one of those you can tell from the outside what's on the insid...

This cake was a specific request from my husband. This is what he wanted for his birthday. No buttercream. No fondant. Just Yogurette, strawberry yoghurt cream and chocolate. After looking at a bunch of examples and a handful of recipes, this is what I came up with. I was really lucky to convince my lovely 5-year-old daughter, Sabrina, to help me not only with the cake itself, but also with the video. She really added an element of sweetness and innocence. After looking at the various recipes for the strawberry yoghurt cream, I decided which ingredients I needed, and also consciously decided not to follow any of them to the letter. They were all similar enough that I didn't feel like I had to. Plus, I wasn't sure if any of them would make enough. So, let's talk about the ingredients I used. First of all, and probably most important, the Yogurette bars. I bought 4 packages of 10 for the cake and it was just barely enough. I mean, if someone had snitched one, I would h...

A friend of mine had been very kind to me lately and had done several favors so I wanted to make her a cake as a thank you. When I talked about what she and her husband like, she told me her husband loves chocolate cake. And that she loves buttercream, but doesn't care for fondant. Her husband says she loves strawberries and cream. Then she said she wants a spring-themed cake. So I tried to combine all those things together. I baked a 7 inch vegan chocolate cake and filled it with vanilla American buttercream.  I crumb coated the cake with vanilla buttercream.  Then I frosted the cake.  That used nearly all of the buttercream I had made, so I whipped up another batch, adding a bit of cocoa to make it light brown. I then put it in a piping bag with a medium sized star tip.  I started piping on a basketweave pattern.  I then went left and noticed the stars at the end of the row were very visible. So I changed my mind and decided to go right instea...