Making a practice cake for Julia's 2nd bday party.
It's not as easy as one would think. Precision handling is required, just to get the cake out of the pan. I already cracked the eyes. He looks like Hungover Elmo.
It did say on the Wilton website to cut off the center part of the bottom of the cake, which I ignored. I'll do it tomorrow or when I make the real one.
Now I am going to mix the frosting with the colors. But first I have to figure out where to do it, I guess I have to put it on the cake board and decorate it on that. Cake board. Who knew? Thank goodness the lady in Michael's told me what to buy or I would have been totally lost.
Mixing the frosting with the coloring is fun, except for the red is not red, it's just pink. I added orange and it's looking like we are going to have salmon colored Elmo.
The food coloring is all over my hands and quite possibly my teeth, because those little buggers are hard to get open.
It is hard to get the frosting into the bag correctly. Not only do you have to do some crazy stuff with a plastic coupler, you are not supposed to put too much frosting into the bag. I just tried to make some practice stars on Elmo and I know why. The frosting comes out of the top.
Not sure if I'm cut out for this cake making business, but will definitely follow through with the cake and hopefully the birthday girl will appreciate the salmon colored, hungover Elmo cake. Hey, it's made with love.