{"id":1562,"date":"2018-06-14T06:40:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T06:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sweetrosalie.chibinet.com\/?p=1562"},"modified":"2018-06-15T00:05:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T00:05:16","slug":"hats-off-graduate-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sweetrosalie.chibinet.com\/?p=1562","title":{"rendered":"Hats Off Graduate 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I don’t take commissioned baking orders very often as they can be challenging to schedule with busy-as-usual-life and a full time day job, but every now and then I jump at the chance to make something special for someone \ud83d\ude09 This was a fun high school graduation cake for one of my co-worker’s daughters, and I am happy with how it turned out.<\/p>\n

EVENING 1: Research recipes, select final recipe and shop for ingredients<\/p>\n

The request was for a chocolate vanilla marble cake, and I’d never made one before, but felt happy with this recipe<\/a> I found online. Granted, I wasn’t able to make the party, so was not able to taste it and critique the texture, moistness etc. but I hope the guests were pleased.<\/p>\n

EVENING 2: Bake the cake layers and cover completely to chill overnight in the refrigerator to be firm enough to frost<\/p>\n

Instructions: Vanilla > Chocolate > Vanilla > Marble with knife \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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EVENING 3: Trim and level the cake layers and prepare to stack, crumb coat, frost and decorate!<\/p>\n

I didn’t realize the marble effect would be so visible after trimming the cakes in preparation for stacking them – so beautiful!<\/p>\n

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After mulling over the direction the decoration would take, and having gone through several iterations in my head, I landed on a simple ombre-like effect from red (as red as I could get this frosting! Also–one of the high school colors) to white, a medley of sprinkles (of course!), and some fun starburst-flower-like piping! I’ve seen many cakes use a similar piping technique, and it always seems a bit whimsical and loose and still each one unique.<\/p>\n

First round of decoration finished and chilling in the refrigerator… I considered stopping at this point, but decided that a high school graduation cake should have more pizzaz! I also knew what the custom cake topper looked like and decided that it should have a more hefty supporting role below \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Final product! <3<\/p>\n

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And the custom cake topper that would be united with its cake at the party!<\/p>\n

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I don’t take commissioned baking orders very often as they can be challenging to schedule with busy-as-usual-life and a full time day job, but every now and then I jump at the chance to make something special for someone \ud83d\ude09 This was a fun high school graduation cake for one of my co-worker’s daughters, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,21,19,10,13,20,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sweetrosalie.chibinet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sweetrosalie.chibinet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sweetrosalie.chibinet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sweetrosalie.chibinet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sweetrosalie.chibinet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sweetrosalie.chibinet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1597,"href":"http:\/\/sweetrosalie.chibinet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sweetrosalie.chibinet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sweetrosalie.chibinet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sweetrosalie.chibinet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}