Well, I admit I haven't made time to blog much lately but, in my defense, Easter came. Holidays always make you busier. I did however manage to make a great cake for Easter. The last couple of years we have gone over to my Dad & Step-Moms for a big meal & usually I bring a dessert. My latest cake was a Pink Ruffle Cake. This was my first time doing this cake decorating technique & I think it came off pretty good but, it took awhile to get the ruffles in fairly neat columns. I will defintely do it better the next time now that I've worked out some of the bugs. The beauty of it is, it's not supposed to be perfect because it's ruffles & it's loose & frilly. I'm not posting a recipe because you can actually use any kind of cake that you want & the frosting can be any type of homemade Buttercream (for decorating purposes). I doubt you could use canned frosting for this type of decorating. If you're not familiar w/this type of cake, you can always Google "Pink Ruffle Cake" & you'll get all kinds of pics & recipes. I don't know why they're usually pink but, I guess because ruffles always look good in pink! You can use a decorator tip #103 or 104 & it's pretty easy to make the ruffles up & down the cake. It's not quite as easy to do the top (at least not if you want it to look good!) but, you can always add other elements to the top if you want. I added some pastel jelly beans just to give it a little Easter touch. Everybody enjoyed the cake & it was great w/some ice cream on the side! Yum!
