Sorry I have been absent lately. Life gets like that sometimes doesn't it? But the next few weeks are busy for me here at Valley Girl. Last week I was lucky to make a barn cake for the lovely Miss Sadye. Sadye lives outside Edmonton so the cake delivery required a road trip to visit family and friends as well as attend her birthday party.
This cake is 5 layers at the top layer, but since the roof is sloped it really is only 3 layers high with some partial layers on top. In between the layers is a strawberry buttercream made from homemade strawberry syrup. The strawberry flavour was very subtle but I loved the combination of it and the chocolate cake. Plus it looked pretty!
The outside is homemade marshmallow fondant. Red again. I know....... but good news! I have discovered a new food gel. Well not new, but new to me! Anyway I used AmeriColour Super Red. And it was WAY better than using an entire bottle of no taste red Wilton and ruining the texture of my fondant. A few small squirts of the Super Red and we had a beautiful red barn colour!
The roof is hand cut shingles made from black modelling chocolate. It was a time consuming procedure cutting them in little strips but the overall effect was awesome.
The grass is good old vanilla buttercream and the dirt road is brown sugar.
Sadye's birthday party was super fun and it was SO wonderful to see that side of our family for the afternoon. I hope that Sadye had a great year and can't wait to see what she has this year. Lots of love to her family from the Valley Girl!
See ya next week when I post Frank, the snake cake!
Sandy
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