{"id":6933,"date":"2012-07-10T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/?p=6933"},"modified":"2012-07-18T12:02:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T19:02:33","slug":"ellens-flapper-inspired-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/ellens-flapper-inspired-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen’s Flapper Inspired Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, Ellen came to me to make sure I was onboard to make her birthday cake (I was.) Then, she asked if we could make it flapper inspired, and pointed me in the direction of a little inspiration<\/a>. If you remember from Ellen’s birthday last year<\/a>, I’m not an artist, I’m a baker. So of course, I enlisted the help of Becca, and Ellen pitched in her talents (with words of encouragement and knowing where to be at the right time from Christie, too!)<\/p>\n

Here’s what we came up with…<\/p>\n

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Everything on the cake was edible, save the feathers (we weren’t quite up to that challenge.)<\/p>\n

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We started with a three layer vanilla cake<\/a> (with a little strawberry in the batter!) Here’s the recipe I used for the cake (it might be my new cake recipe for good!)<\/p>\n

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Layer it with frosting…as you’ll see in the example, they covered the whole cake in fondant, but since I’m not a big fan, I stuck to frosting.<\/p>\n

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We stuck in in the fridge for a few minutes to let the frosting\u00a0solidify, then we rolled the fondant band out.<\/p>\n

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Attached it here…then put it back in the fridge for a few minutes. Now it was time for the chocolate leaves.<\/p>\n

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The night before, we had made chocolate leaves. This consisted of taking leaves from outside, washing them, then painting them with melted dark chocolate.<\/p>\n

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Here are the painted leaves….<\/p>\n

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We used\u00a0silicone\u00a0brushes, and Trader Joe’s semi-sweet pound chocolate bar.<\/p>\n

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After you freeze the leaves, you peel them off the actual leaves and stick them to the cake! At this point, it was all hands on deck — we had to use ice packs to keep our hands cold (thus the leaves from not melting) and got them in a layer around the bottom (go team!)<\/p>\n

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The night before we also made pearls out of fondant.<\/p>\n

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Becca strung them (with real thread, so the whole thing wasn’t edible, but you COULD have eaten the pearls off the string!)<\/p>\n

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Then we spray painted it with gold (edible) spray paint, leftover from Jen’s birthday, to make them shine.<\/p>\n

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Ellen also made this flower from fondant to add to the top, which we did after we had added the fondant band and leaves.<\/p>\n

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Ellen put the pearls on.<\/p>\n

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And there you have a flapper inspired cake! Was it as pretty as the one we found online? No. But was it delicious? Absolutely.<\/p>\n

Happy Birthday to my lovely, wonderful, crafty friend Ellen! May your actual birthday be as fun as your party!<\/p>\n

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This is us at Ellen’s birthday party — she even matched the cake!!<\/p>\n

(Thanks to Becca + Christie for making the cake for me<\/del> pitching in!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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