Trans Pride Cake
After making a pride cake, I realized that there is one group from the LGBTQ+ community that can sometimes get overlooked. What began as a discussion about sexuality ended up in a discussion about gender. Transgender people can sometimes be excluded from pride movements if they're not also homosexual. That's not right. Transgender people go through so much. The lease we can do as human beings is treat them as human beings as well. I started out frosting a 4-inch cake dummy with vegan American buttercream. Then I started out with the transgender flag on the top of the cake. The transgender flag has a stripe of blue, a stripe of pink, white, pink and blue. Blue represents typically male, pink typical female and white gender neutral. The design is symmetrical so no matter which way you fly it, you’re correct. I have a total of 5 flags to make for the side, so I marked the edges of where I want to place the flags. This first flag on the side is a gender queer flag. The gre...