I want to make my best friend a birthday cake, decorating tips and recipes please?

I want it to taste like the inside of a fortinos, food basics,etc, you know, the ones you just order and pick up.


If you don't have a recipe for it no problem but please give me some decorating tips. I want it to have ribbon, flowers, and somehow glittery. I really want decorating tips most of all because i could always buy ready made stuff ;)


Its going to be two layer cake by the way.





Be as creative as you can be people :DI want to make my best friend a birthday cake, decorating tips and recipes please?
Title: NORWEGIAN BIRTHDAY CAKE (BLOTKAKE)


Categories: Cakes, Ethnic


Yield: 10 Servings


5 Eggs, separated


3/4 ts Cream of tartar


1 1/2 c Sugar


1/2 c Water


1 ts Vanilla


1 1/2 c Flour


1 ts Baking powder


2 c Whipping cream


Strawberries, optional





In a bowl beat egg whites until foamy. Add cream of tartar and beat until stiff peaks form. Gradually beat in sugar. Set aside. Beat egg yolks until thick and lemon colored. Stir in water and vanilla. Sift flour twice with baking powder. Stir flour into egg-yolk mixture by hand, until thoroughly combined. Fold in egg-white mixture. Pour mixture into 2 (8-inch) round parchment-lined cake pans and bake at 350 degrees about 30 to 40 minutes, or until wood pick inserted in center comes out dry. When cool, divide each cake into 2 layers. Whip cream. Save enough whipped cream to decorate outside of cake. Add crushed strawberries with juice to rest of whipped cream. Then spread on top of layers.


Each serving contains about: 382 calories; 108 mg sodium; 172 mg cholesterol; 20 grams fat; 45 grams carbohydrates; 6 grams protein; 0.05gram fiber.





This sponge cake is also delicious on its own or as a base for fruit and whipped cream.





-----I want to make my best friend a birthday cake, decorating tips and recipes please?
I can answer this. I would suggest for a recipe you just print one of my birthday cake recipes off my website. http://www.birthday-cake-central.com/bir鈥?/a> will take you to the recipe page.





For decorating: You can get the glittery look with Wilton glitter dust. You sprinkle this ';fairy dust'; (for a better word) on the cake and it gives a shimmer. It's available in several colors and is edible.





For something different shapewise, you could pickup a cake pan in a fun shape and then creatively decorate it with different colors. Be creative and dont' worry about it looking like an ace of cakes quality. Just have fun and make a day of it. Baking is one of the few things you can do, screw up and still have everyone enjoy the end result.
Look at a coloring book and pick out a picture. Place waxed paper over top of the picture and trace it using a writing tip for cake decorating in frosting. Have the cake frosted, take the picture on the waxed paper and turn over so frosting side is down. Lift the waxed paper off and fill in the gaps with frosting.
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