ng from college (yikes!) and one for my brother graduating from high school (yippee!), but time ran away from me. I have been busy with my new job as a residential case worker, but enjoying myself and learning a lot and the field of social services. I mentioned to a few people that I would like to decorate cakes or cupcakes with the girls and am happy to report that I will be doing that in a few weeks :).Sooooo... I always like to do things differently. I wanted to do something kinda crazy for my brother's 18th birthday, so first, I decided I wanted each layer to be a different color and have different flavoured fillings. I often start baking a cake with no idea how to decorate the outside... which sometimes works to my advantage. I worked with what I had, and came up with a cake that was perfect for an 18 year old GIRL, not an 18 year old jock! Oh well :) I greeted him as the birthday princess when I handed him the cake hehe! ;)
So, I used a Betty Croker white cake mix and added some of my neon food dye to make the different layers. I put black-raspberry jam as one filling and lemon
curd as the other, but frosted the entire cake with Betty Croker vanilla frosting. I didn't have time to make everything from scratch this time guys! I DID however, make my own fondant by using marshmallows. It was incredibly messy to make at first...I was glad no one was home to watch me... BUT, tasted better than store-bought fondant, was MUCH cheaper to make, and was much easier to work with! YAY! I still had a little trouble covering the cake, but hey, practice makes perfect. I covered my mistakes with roses and daisies anyways :)
Happy Birthday Ian!
