Though a lot of readers may not know my mother and I, if you do, you'll know that she loves to "remind" me of things. Mom - if/when you read this, know I love you to the moon and back and its one of the million things I LOVE about you!
Being in the business of designing cakes for many different occasions, after several years of this, I was "reminded" that I have never designed/made a cake for my mom, and fair enough- I hadn't. Even better, my older sister sent me the cutest little file for a printable "MOM" banner and it just inspired me to design something cute for my mom for Mothers Day!
The best part about doing something for family (bless there heart) is you can "experiment"! I always wanted to try this ruffle effect on a cake, but needed the occasion. A nice, pink, feminine cake for my Mom was just the design we needed!
So off to work. Baked a peanut butter chocolate chip cake. Smothered it in chocolate butter cream icing and then draped in white fondant. Then let the layers of pink ruffles begin. When the pink ruffles were all complete, I thought a punch of purple would just give it a nice focal point. So we gave a wrap around of royal purple ribbon. Topped with a fancy "MoM" banner and the cake was complete!
I really liked the turn out and can't wait to have the opportunity to make another one! The ruffles take a bit of time, but for the look: TOTALLY worth it.
Now, bringing it over to my moms, watching them cut it up and eat it in like 5 minutes... THAT was painful! Perhaps one of the reasons I prefer to make a cake, and send it out! I just imagine that its never destroyed!
Some pics of the cake! Enjoy!
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