Friday was my friend Sara’s birthday and I thought I’d get her some roses. Since she looks so pretty in neon (as you can see in this pic from Refinery29) I thought a bright orange and pink bouquet would be appropriate.
Sara doesn’t eat dairy so, I endeavored to make my first cake sans butter and milk. Armed with this recipe for the chocolate cake and a frosting made with non-dairy shortening, almond milk and powdered sugar, I baked a 5 layer cake covered in orange and pink roses (I used the same piping bag so that some of the roses would be a pretty mix of the two colors.
Ever since learning how to make frosting roses from I am Baker, I’ve found it to be the easiest way to make a cake look pretty… the color possibilities are endless and your design job doesn’t have to be perfect – the roses are very forgiving. It’s also just a lot of fun to do, swirling and swirling… Just get a 1M frosting tip, read I am Baker’s tutorial and go bananas with your future cakes.
There’s Miss High Fashion 4 Less herself with her roses and Kata from The YouFinder. Incidentally, that cake almost bit it on the cab ride over. Happy 30th Sara!
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Wow, its gorgeous! You are so talented! Without dairy is tricky but very possible in these days. :*
Love your blog! xox
I love the neon take on the rose cake, so pretty and unique!
OMG you seriously are too good!! This cake looks amazing & Sara looks so beautiful
WOW that’s so beautiful!
Thank you guys!!
The cake is fabulous. I wished I had been able to hang out with you ladies. I am curious about the recipe you used to make it.
so how did it taste without dairy?
you never cease to amaze me with these cakes!!!
I think I over baked it a bit, it should have been more moist. The recipe (linked above) has syrup in it and when I tasted the batter I thought it was going to be overwhelmingly syrupy. But, you couldn’t taste it at all in the finished product, just tasted like yummy chocolate:) I also think I should have added more confectioners sugar and almond milk to the frosting to get a better consistency, it didn’t seem light/fluffy enough. I shall be experimenting further with dairy alternatives…
the cake was fabulous and tasted soooo yummy! thank you so so much gorgeous!
Thank you Jasmine!
Thank you Lindsey!
Its gorgeous. And so are you and your friend. Great job!
How beautiful and SO Sarah!
loooooooooove this cake. so so so pretty.
BEAUTIFUL!!!
You did an AMAZING job! What a nice thing to do for a friend!
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