
I had planned my cakes the week before, but on the morning of Friday I had a sinking feeling that my fondant covered cakes wouldn't be what our mums would want. So, I text them both, and they both came back saying they would like vanilla cakes, with buttercream. My mum added chocolate into the mix, so I decided to make her one with chocolate buttercream, and Fred's mum one with vanilla buttercream.
I had already made some fondant roses earlier in the week, and I was pretty happy with them and how they had dried. I made these by hand, no fancy tools apart from a plastic bag and a small spoon to smooth the edges. Tutorial coming soon!!
So I went about making the cakes, and making it up as I go along. I used my basic vanilla recipe. (x3) to make each of the cakes. They took an hour or so to cool before I put a thin layer of buttercream on to crumb coat the cakes. I made vanilla buttercream tinted with pink for one cake and a chocolate buttercream for the other. I used my new Wilton Icing Colours set.
I highly recommend you get some of these bad boys if you do a lot of colouring work. They are tasteless and you need the absolute tiniest bit to get a great colour. I dipped a toothpick about half a cm into the pot to achieve the colour i had on my cake... wow.
I decorated the cakes using my Wilton 1M tip and made roses around the cake. A technique id used before and seen used by a few of my baking friends. I was really happy with the end results. I laid the fondant roses on top and refrigerated overnight.
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