After being away for a while, I've come back at a very busy time. I'm right in the middle of making my daughter a cake for her birthday tomorrow. I wanted to blog about it, most importantly, as a reference for myself. So that next time I work on a cake this size, I won't be running around like a chicken with my head cut off wondering what to do next! Hopefully, this will also give you an idea of how to plan out your own cake.
So, I started a couple of days ago. After dividing and dyeing the fondant, I called my cousin Marianne and her daughter over so that I can get their help with the decorations that will be going on the bottom tier. I got the idea from the first season of Cake Boss. My daughter liked the sweet sixteen cake featured. So we talked about it, and decided on something like it.
Yesterday, I baked two of the tiers but was disappointed to find, only after baking them, that they weren't going to be nearly tall enough to accommodate the type of decorations we were planning on. So, this morning I stopped by Walmart to stock up on more supplies I was going to need.
My plan is to make the top tier a white cake with strawberry and cream cheese frosting filling.
The second tier will be one white, one chocolate, then another white layer with fudge and strawberry filling.
Finally, the last tier will be three layers of chocolate cake with fudge filling.
I plan to finish the baking today, fill them, and give all three tiers the crumb coat of white icing. Maybe tonight I'll cover them in fondant. This way, all I have to do tomorrow is put the decorations and finishing touches.
On a side note, I already noticed something I would do differently the next time. I'll make my frosting a week before to have on hand when I crumb coat my cakes :-)
Wish me luck!
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