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...

Making your buttercream cake look like a knitted sweater is a huge trend in cake decorating right now. And it's not all that difficult, either. This is how I made it. I'm using two small star piping tips today.  And I placed them in piping bags with white buttercream.  I frosted my cake.  Then I took the larger of the two tips and piped a few v-shapes in a vertical line. And I did this at regular intervals around the cake.  Then I piped a vertical line between the v-lines. Then between the vertical line and the v-lines, I piped another v-line with the smaller piping tip.  Then, wherever I had gaps, I piped stars. Finally, I piped the top. I piped a rope border along the edge, then another v-line in a circular formation next to it, a row of dots and finally a swirl in the middle.  But a had a couple of spots I was annoyed with. I just wasn't completely happy with them.  So I scraped off a bit of the piping.  An...