The Purple Cake - January 18, 2025

It's a good thing I made that half batch of "practice" frosting for the purple cake.

I played with the piping tips and the food coloring and managed to make a few acceptable pink rose-like flowers and some leaves, which I piped onto little squares of parchment and froze.  My intention was to make some better ones with the "real" frosting, but the real batch was a little too loose to make flower petals that would stand up.  I ended up using the practice flowers.

I thought it turned out not too badly for a first try.  

When I texted a picture to The Husband, he said, "I thought you were going to put purple sprinkles on it."

O.M.G.  I had completely forgotten about the purple sprinkles.  I'd planned to dust the whole top of the cake with purple sanding sugar before I put the flowers on.  

There was no room left for purple sprinkles.  I took off some of the little roses, stenciled a purple sugar butterfly in their place, and dusted the rim with purple sugar.

I thought it looked better before the purple sugar additions.  

Oh, well.  The Little Rotten Baby liked it.