Happy retirement and birthday, Jan!
Creative Loafing’s sales rep Jan Caldwell retired yesterday and her today is birthday. For such a grand occasion, a batch of cupcakes just wouldn’t suffice. I needed to make something really special for her.
When I ran across a blog post online featuring a mile-high layered cake decorated with ribbons of frosting, I knew I had to try it.
For my cake, I made two layers of rich chocolate cake and then cut each in half to make 4 layers. For the frosting, I made a vanilla buttercream and tinted it a bright and fun pink. The ribboned look was created with a Wilton petal decorating tip (like this).
So, I practically gave myself carpal tunnel syndrome from piping all the frosting, but it was totally worth it.
This article appears in Nov 30 – Dec 6, 2010.
Okay, enough already of keeping these beautiful goodies to myself. 🙂 I had to share this one with my teen daughter. She said, “Oh my goodness! How long did it take to make that? And she let someone eat it? I would have kept it all to myself.” Hmmm…
Sounds delish! I really like the style of this chocolate cake. Thanks for posting this designs. I will have to make it. It’s look very nice. I hope it’s sweetest as its look. It’s fantastic…. It tastes very chocolaty and yummy and is also lots of fun to make without much difficulty. I am going to try my best and make it; of course I’ve asked my friend to help. Thanks for posting this, I can’t wait to try and make it Thank you very much for posting it!