Monday, August 11, 2008

Becky's 21st Birthday Cake!

My sister is turning 21 on October 11, howver she'll be studying abroad in Geneva, Switzerland, so we had a surprise 21st birthday party for her over the weekend. Her favorite beer is Heineken Light, so I made her a Heine cake. I asked her what her favorite cake flavors would be because I had a cake to make for a wedding shower as well, and I she told me I should make lemon cake with a strawberry creme filling. So I used that flavor combo for her!
I used this recipe for lemon verbena cake, I used Dorie's pastry cream recipe, halved, mixed with 1/2 c. fresh pureed strawberries, and my standard buttercream and fondant.

This is the pastry cream, no cake photo!

11 comments:

  1. The cake was so cute, but also sooo delicious. I really liked the lemon, strawberry, cream filling.

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  2. This looks fantastic! I can only imagine how much time it took in order for you to achieve such a level of detail! Nice work!

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  3. This cake is so cute! You did a wonderful job with it! What a great 21st birthday cake :)

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  4. It's so cool that you got the cake to be silver too!

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  5. How did you make the cake silver?

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  6. It looks perfect! Really great job. And I hope your sister has a great birthday and good time abroad.

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  7. Very cool cake. You are a great sister!!!

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  8. i use silver luster dust mixed with vodka painted on.

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  9. What a fun cake for a fun party.

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  10. It is great to read some of the information and feedback, here. I hope to read more ideas in the future!!!

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