After my last fail with fondant I decided to make a similar cake but focus on using frosting to decorate the cake instead. This time I did not have to spend time shopping for ingredients since I already had them in my baking area in the kitchen. This cake was another layered cake with the same strawberry banana and creme filling from the last cake. I baked yellow cake in two 9 inch pans to get nice even portions of the layers. The part I still have trouble on is cutting the top part of the cakes to make them flat since they puff up in the oven and become round. It might be easier to use a tool that is made to cut cakes nice and straight but for now a knife would have to do. Once I put the bottom layer, filling and top layer it was time to design the cake. I went with a simple decoration. I frosted the top of the cake with regular buttercream frosting then used food coloring to turn the rest of the frosting blue. I got my decorating tools to write a name on the cake in blue. Then I got some of the left over stawberries and cut them into even sizes and put them around the top edges of the cake and finished it off with blue frosting in between strawberries. I didnt frost the sides of the cake to show the layers and filling of the cake. Overall I was very satisfied with this simple but elegant cake. My next goal is to work with fondant again and hopefully succeed with getting it on the cake without ripping or tearing it.
Time logged for this session: 2 hrs
Total time logged: 7 hrs
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