American Baker in Germany

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 ...