In some ways
Thursday's cake for Baby's actual birthday was a trial run, it was just for family, so if it ended up looking funny or something it was not going to be a huge embarrassment! So that gave me lots of confidence to just try some things. I was really happy with the way it looked, but I thought that the icing in the lady bug did not taste great because of all the coloring paste used to get the colors that dark. It still tasted good, but I felt that I needed to work on it a little bit more, so for Saturday's party I played it safe and just used simple chocolate and cherry icing (the cherry icing is made by using the juice from a jar of maraschino cherries to flavor and color your icing). The results looked like this:
I was THRILLED with the flavor, but liked the way the
other one looked better. So next time I would make a cherry icing and then tint it red, and I would make the icing very chocolaty and then tint it black.
And the cake must have been delicious because at the end of the party we had 2 pieces left!
The baker was very happy....
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3 comments:
Fantastic job on BOTH of them!! WOW, impressive! I'm sure they tasted just as impressive!!
The baker should be happy! :-)
Wow, you did wonderful on both. I wish I couyld do just a basic cake. I have tried cakes and they flop every single time. I bet your birthday gal was so giddy.
You did a great job! If you haven't already, make sure that you are buying the colors that are marked as No Taste, especially for the red (I think that's the only one they make as no taste). To help a bit with the black, you can look for black cocoa (think of the color of an Oreo cookie) and Hershey's makes a Special Dark Cocoa that may help also. I would imagine that the sweetness of the icing and the fat would overcome the bitterness of the cocoa.
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