Birthday cake
My roommates birthday is tomorrow so I decided to decorate the cake I was gonna make for the superbowl as a b-day one.
I didn't want to spend forever on decorations so I used this technique to make the roses/flower: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMmQiZ5xqRQ Its super simple. You basically roll out a small piece of gumpaste into a tube, flatten it out, pull out petals using your fingers, ruffle the edges, and roll it up. Then you fan out the the petals to form a rose. The longer the piece of fondant the larger the flower. I think my longest piece was longer than 10 inches. Made for really full flowers.
Here are all the flowers I made, in rainbow order, ready to go on the cake. (The camera was wonky on a few colors. Next to the blue is actually a really deep purple. And next to the purple it was a burgendy flower, not a pukey brownish one!)
Cake recipe and filling were taken from The Whimsical Bakehouse book. The cake wasn't bad- good flavor but a tad bit too try for me (I think I'm becoming a cake snob...) But the filling what stabilized whipped cream + a crapload of crushed oreos. OMG. I could have eaten an entire bowl of that filling. It was soooooo gooooooood.
Closeup shot. (Again, the color of the flower on the right was much nicer in person)
Completed cake
I didn't want to spend forever on decorations so I used this technique to make the roses/flower: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMmQiZ5xqRQ Its super simple. You basically roll out a small piece of gumpaste into a tube, flatten it out, pull out petals using your fingers, ruffle the edges, and roll it up. Then you fan out the the petals to form a rose. The longer the piece of fondant the larger the flower. I think my longest piece was longer than 10 inches. Made for really full flowers.
Here are all the flowers I made, in rainbow order, ready to go on the cake. (The camera was wonky on a few colors. Next to the blue is actually a really deep purple. And next to the purple it was a burgendy flower, not a pukey brownish one!)
Cake recipe and filling were taken from The Whimsical Bakehouse book. The cake wasn't bad- good flavor but a tad bit too try for me (I think I'm becoming a cake snob...) But the filling what stabilized whipped cream + a crapload of crushed oreos. OMG. I could have eaten an entire bowl of that filling. It was soooooo gooooooood.
Closeup shot. (Again, the color of the flower on the right was much nicer in person)
Completed cake