I am not the best with frosting in a creative manner or making food into objects that other people can recognize. I think that today I did pretty well, however. My MIL had to work this morning & has a lot going on this week, so I offered to make my little BIL's 15th birthday cake! He just started playing tennis, on a team, so a tennis related cake seemed to be in order. My first thought was a drawn tennis racket on the side of the cake. Its a good thing that I did not go through with it, it probably would have looked like a roughly drawn hair brush, LOL.
I used two boxes of Betty Crocker confetti cake. It was on sale for $1 a box! I go between Betty Crocker & Pillsbury, neither have steered me wrong. I made the cakes in two seperate 9 x 9 pans. Jay flattened off the top of the soon to be bottom layer by using a bread knife. I then cut some of the edges off of the top layer.
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The icing & food coloring used. I *LOVE* my neon food coloring! Each container of icing required 30 drops of neon green food coloring to be the awesome Wilson tennis ball color! |
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The layers before I added them together. I actually thought they would fit in my glass cake stand. Good thing that I tested this theory out before I frosted the cake! |
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Looks yummy right? |
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First layer. I thought of keeping it white, but then, won't it be more fun to cut into the cake to see more GREEN frosting :) ? |
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The beginning of the "felt". I used a Pampered Chef Icing Tool to make the texture. |
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Its almost done! I did spread the white part a little more. This is the result of 3 containers of white icing! |
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Ta da! I don't have the best handwriting, in icing, but you can at least read it :) |
What is the coolest baked item that you ever made?
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