Baking - The Beginners Guide

[Sunset_Eyes]

@Mehnaz

The “plan” is a 10" round cake. I found a picture of a cake I would like to put my own spin on.

Plan is to fill it with buttercream and strawberries … plain cake flavoured with rose water. Buttercream on the outside with fondant decorations on top.

I have some creamcheese left over from the Valentine’s day cake which I may combine into the buttercream. I find that tastes quite nice with a plain cake.

That being said, the last time I had a similar plan was when I made a cake for my friend’s Baptism party for her son. I put blue colour into the buttercream, but for some reason, it wasn’t smooth. It looked very lumpy (maybe the shortening??) so you could see white little lumps in between the blue icing. I ended up covering the whole thing with fondant. I can’t do that this time cause I’m out of fondant (I don’t make my own) and I don’t have time to go buy more. I have to make the cake tomorrow evening, will refridgerate it overnight and decorate it Saturday, inshallah.

So much for me going to the auto show.

Sounds superb. I hope inshallah it comes out amazing - actually you are my inspiration on GS so please take pics and share them with us. So refrigerating the cake is ok? No affect on the flavour? I tried putting sliced strawberries in the middle of the cake with choc icing but they kept sliding out - ruined the whole look of the cake - but then maybe they were halves!!

@Mehnaz

It’s that thick, sugary, icing that you find on wedding cakes. Some people like Sunset_Eyes make their own. Otherwise, you can buy it at Michael’s … but it doesn’t taste very good. I prefer the one from McCall’s.

Thank you for the point of reference that i make my own fondant Mehnaz - i am still trying to perfect the silly thing! God knows how much icing sugar i have wasted! Haha!