Cotton Candy Cake

My latest cake is made with all buttercream. I haven't done a full buttercream cake for a long time! I still like working with fondant and gum paste better (I feel like I can do so much more), but I still enjoyed making this cake. I especially enjoyed doing the basket weave; it's been almost a year since I last did it, but luckily I didn't forget how to do it entirely! It's not perfect (I lost the template for basket weave-whoops) but it didn't take too long and it turned out okay.

I tried a few new things with this cake. I made it ALL from scratch using cake flour (I'll make another post on that later). I also tried a new flavor combination: its yellow cake with cotton candy pudding for the filling and the frosting is raspberry flavored. I know, sounds weird but I think it tasted pretty good. Not amazing, but good.

While the cake was in the oven, a friend called and asked me to bring a dessert for dinner. How convenient that I already had a cake in the oven! So I brought it to the dinner. I {think} people liked it because I didn't take much cake home!






Dang camera. A lot of the pictures I take with it are fuzzy. A new camera is definitely on my Christmas list!