Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Basket Weave Birthday Cake

I made this cake for my favorite girl, my daughter Marisha. This year she wanted roses on her birthday cake and I wanted to experiment with basket weave decorations. I did make the mistake of using butter cream made with butter only, no shortening. I would not recommend it as the icing was literally melting in the decorating bag as I squeezed it. And what to speak of trying to make roses with it. The icing is just too soft and even though I refrigerated it to harden it a bit, it did not stay firm long enough to make nice roses. Next time I surely will remember to make the right kind of icing for roses or other flower decorations. Or at least I hope so...


Top view of the cake



A closer look at the basket weave decoration.



And here she is - the birthday girl. As you probably can tell, she really liked the cake...

1 comment:

Devadeva Mirel said...

the cake...and marisha...look beautiful!