PEACE, LOVE & HAPPINESS December 12, 2009
This cake was made for my cousin Taylor’s 10th birthday “Peace, Love & Music” party on December 12, 2009.
Design I basically tried to come up with a modern hippie design for the 21st century young girl. I gave up after searching on the web for awhile, so I went to Michael’s and perused the aisles of scrap booking paper they have and found a few patterned designs that I used as a guide to fit the theme I was looking for. This turned out to be a totally groooovvvy cake - inside and out !!!
Cake For me this was the best part. When I was researching hippie cake ideas on the web, I came across a website that showed how to make a rainbow cake by coloring vanilla cake batter and dropping it into concentric circles in the middle of the pan. So I borrowed the idea, but colored the batter to match the colors on the outside of the cake and also added chocolate cake batter. It was a big surprise for everyone and they all loved it!
Filling Vanilla bean Italian meringue buttercream.
Frosting Vanilla bean Italian meringue buttercream.
Decoration The cake is covered with vanilla fondant. I used a flower cookie cutter to make the flower design and applied them randomly to the top tier. I cut wavy strips of colored fondant using a pizza cutter and applied them vertically to the bottom tier. The topper was made using colored chocolate melted and poured into a 4″ diameter peace symbol chocolate mold.
Thanks Special thanks to Blake for making the chocolate peace symbol topper.
