My Ultimate Resolve: to ACTUALLY DO all of those things that I saw on pinterest and thought "Hey, I want to do that"

Saturday, March 8, 2014

27. Petal Cake

Well, I may never get to 365, but I am posting this anyway. I have seen this cake and a friend of mine was throwing a baby shower for her friend who is having a girl and she had to bump the shower date up significantly, so in the limited amount of time we had, this is what I cranked out
(pinned 13 days ago)



Time consuming, but relatively easy. Not exactly the side I wanted to showcase, but hey, everyone else was impressed, so I am okay with it. I also used red velvet, strawberry, white cake died pink and then white cake to mimic the outside on the inside
I used a raspberry whipped topping for filling which is about 2 cups heavy cream, 1/2 cup powdered sugar, 1 tsp vanilla and 2 to 3 tablespoons of seedless Raspberry jam (Polander's all fruit is what I used, I think) and learn from my mistake: Microwave the jam for 20 seconds first - then stir and stir and stir it. And stir it some more to get it to cool down some without re- congealing and then fold into the whipped cream. If you don't you'll get splotches of jam that just won't dissolve - you can actually see them in the picture. I microwaved the rest after my first spoonful of jam in the whipped cream did NOT fold in like I expected.