Anyway, b/c of the bbq, I said I would bring dessert. So baked up a fabulous, from scratch, chocolate cake. OOOOOhhh it is so good! I got a new recipe for chocolate fudgey filling from my friend Lisa, and it was a HUGE HIT!!! I mean, my cousin's husband thought it was from a local bakery!! WHOOT!
So I learned how to do a crumb coat, and I had a crumb free icing. I then put red shells on the bottom and the top of it. I wrote "Happy 35th Birthday Mike!" on it, but it still looked... well, boring. LOL It's true. It did. So I went down to my crafty studio, and came up with a swirly stamp from Christmas Presentation. I gently pressed the stamp into the icing, which had hardened just enough... and then piped red icing over the impression. SO EASY!!! I plan to do this more!! :)
So here's a photo :)
There's LOTS of cake here, enough for the children to take a piece to school, and for us to have it again after supper tomorrow night!! Insanity I tell ya... but a nice treat for the kids for the first day back to school!
Have a happy day!
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4 comments:
That is so cool! Great idea and love the look. Thanks for sharing!
Awesome!
Do explain the crumb coat. I hate some major issues with that on my last cake!!
this is awesome!!!!
Kristin, I too had huge issues with crumbs before. What I did yesterday was put a thin thin coating of regular icing on the cake. I didn't thin it down with milk or water, just used it thick. I have a great spreader from Pampered Chef that I use. I spread it so thin that you could see the cake through the icing! I then left it for about 15 minutes or so while I ran an errand. When I came back, the cake was 'crusty' from the crumb coat. I then iced as usual, applying a bit of a thicker coat of icing, but then thinning it out as I went along smoothing :) Virtually NO CRUMBS!! I was SO happy!!!!
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