I did the buttons differently this time. It was a little faster, and they came out just as cute. Instead of indenting the center, I just used the large end of a piping tip to press a circle onto each button. A bamboo skewer is just the right size for the center holes.
For the cake, I used Martha Stewart's one bowl chocolate cake recipe again. It's super dark, almost Oreo-colored, and perfectly moist. It's actually not very sweet, despite having three cups of sugar in the batter; the cocoa offsets the sweetness. It pairs really well with the vanilla buttercream, which has just a hint of almond extract.
Oh! And lest I forget to give credit where due, I took inspiration for the frog from this great tutorial. It's not in English, but the pictures work in any language!
The hostesses loved the cake, and I hope the mom-to-be did, too!
3 comments:
Your frog is awesome! It looks just like the one from the tutorial...
I was wondering about "Have a great day" - makes much more sense now.
Seriously - between this cake and your bundt cake...I'm drooling.
Looks great! BTW the frog tutorial is in Serbo-Croatian. I would have been able to read it for you at some point, but looking at it made me realize how rusty my language skills really are. Good thing it had pictues!
You should get some button molds while you are on a button kick:
http://www.bakeitpretty.com/catalog.htm
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