Since it was my younger brother's birthday is this weekend, I decided to make him a special birthday cake. I had originally intended to make this cake orange (which is my brother's favorite color) with white decorations; unfortunately, I couldn't create an orange with the yellow and red coloring I had, so he'll have to settle for a peach cake.
I had also planned on writing "Happy Birthday" on the cake using some of the Wilton templates and then tracing them with icing. Although I had no trouble getting the template to imprint in the cake's icing, actually tracing the lettering proved quite difficult. The template's lettering was extremely small and compact, so the end-product looking extremely messy. Fortunately, I was able to scrape most of this frosting from the cake's surface and replace it with the rose motif I had used in my previous cake. (I will congratulate myself on successfully mastering the roses. With icing that was actually the correct consistency this time, I was able to complete all seven roses for this cake in less than 15 minutes!)
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Yeah, those templates are a waste of money! I had bought them, and it turned out so bad I scraped them off too!
Did ya know - you can freeze roses? Make up a bunch of them, place on wax paper, and freeze in an airtight container. When you are ready to use, remove how ever many you need and leave them thaw out for an hour or so. Oila! They are as good as fresh-made ones!
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