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My friend (Jean) ordered this basket
weaved design birthday cake for her mother in law. This was made in a rush
hour. I felt so worried that she may not like the cake but I got a good
feedback that the celebrant liked the cake very much.
The cake was Vanilla cake filled with
strawberry jam. I got the recipe from cake boss website. Anyhow, This was the
second time I tried the Basket-weave technique in decorating cake. Looking at
the design, its looks very simple and easy to do however, its not really easy,
it really need more careful because you might forget whether vertical or you
are already in the horizontal line. As new to this technique I forgot several
lines but I managed to hide it with some decorations like the flowers or the
leaves on it or around it.
The flowers I made were a combination
of butter cream icing, royal icing and gum-paste. In my experienced, it is
really not good idea to decorate cake in a rush because if you make mistake
there will be no time to fix it. Fortunately in my case I have made several
royal icing flowers and gum-paste flowers so it turned it very handy.
By the way, thanks to my friend Jean
who trusted and gave me an opportunity to explore my creativity.
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