My niece was going to visit us shortly after her birthday and when I asked her what kind of cake she'd like me to make for her when she is here, she was very clear. It had to be a cake with flowers and grass and butterflies and it was supposed to be pink and purple. That was the most precise anyone had been with me and I was thrilled! I went to my favorite baking shop in Singapore and got the tools I needed to create the patterns.
The icing was made with this icing recipe from allrecipes. The saddest thing happened when we had finished decorating the cake. In a desire to make the cake look nice and colorful, we had put so much color into the icing that when we tasted it, the icing had started to turn bitter. It was really something for our eyes only ..... noone ate a full piece of the cake.
But for me making the cake was a wonderful chance to experiment with frosting, colors. icing tips and patterns. In this bog entry I will not share a recipe but I will share the story of how we went about this cake. There was so much icing left over that the kids also got a chance to ice their mini cakes. They had a good time playing with the icing, different tips and colors. Even though we could not really eat the cake, it was a real pleasure creating it and I want to share it with you ....
I started with a white cake mix. I baked it in 2 9-inch round cake pans. When the cakes were done, they were left on a wire rack to cool. Once cooled, I leveled the cakes and put the cut side down. This helps to get less crumbs when we are spreading the frosting on the cake.
I spread the frosting on the first layer of cake. Once the first layer was done, I put the second layer on top and repeated. Finally I spread some frosting on the sides and smoothed it all the way around.
I put green icing in a piping bag and coupled the grass tip (#233) to the bag. With small strokes, piped grass all over the cake going in concentric circles.
Once the grass was done,we used the tip #16 for piping the yellow rosettes. The pink Swirl Drop flowers were created using tip 2D. The dot in the center is piped using tip #3.
In the end, the kids took over and my niece decorated the cake with some store bought sugar butterflies.
As you can see below, we had plenty of icing left over after the decoration of the cake was done. So the kids took over and decorated their mini cakes.
All in all, it was a great evening for the kids and for me. I loved the chance to learn so many new things! It was just amazing!! The aim for the next time is to make a cake that we can actually eat!!!
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