Monday, July 28, 2008

Arielle's Birthday Cake

Arielle wanted a big extravagent cake with basket weave and flowers so this is what I came up with. It's vanilla cake with strawberries, buttercream and vanilla moistening syrup on the first and third layer of each cake. The center layers have a vanilla meringue disk and sliced strawberries. Those disks are why it looks a little bit wonky. I tried spreading the meringue out with a spatula and didn't get even layers. The next time I tried it (different cake) I piped it and they came out perfect. Live and learn!

I did get creative with this one because she wanted a three tiered cake but we weren't having 150 people over! I used smaller pans than normal but to get the top tier a small enough size and make it look okay I used very clean tuna fish cans!!


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