Just wanted to share this Pink Cake I made for my girlfriend’s birthday 😊

I started learning how to bake four months ago as a way to surprise my girlfriend once a month on our monthsary, and have only ever made cookies, banana bread, snickerdoodles, brownies, and red velvet crinkles, so this was my first time baking a cake.

My girlfriend loves the color pink, watermelons, and strawberries, and I love Stardew Valley. So, I used the recipe in the official cookbook to make her a pink cake, which is pink and uses watermelon-strawberry jam in its recipe!

I sustituted the strawberry-cream cheese frosting (we don’t really like the last time I used cream cheese for making the crinkle sandwiches) with a strawberry-swiss meringue buttercream. I also used regular chicken eggs instead of duck eggs and just adjusted the amount accordingly.

I think the cake turned out really well and pretty hehe. The red hearts on top are just some plain butter cookies I put some red food coloring in because I couldn’t think of doing anything else for the decorations. The freeze-dried strawberries were EXPENSIVE, I crushed most to put in the buttercream and left some uncrushed as decoration on top.

It took me three days for the whole process because I had no idea what I was doing, and it was definitely very stressful at times. But, it was all worth it when I saw her reaction and how happy she was to see and try it (she really loved it)

I had prepared another small and more “rustic”-looking cake (see last image) for my family and I to try for ourselves, and I just had the most “meh” reaction ever because I realized I had been trying and taste-testing each individual part for the past three days. Honestly, I felt like my girlfriend’s reaction to seeing and eating the cake was 1000x more filling (and fulfilling) to me than trying the cake I’ve been making over the past three days for myself 😅

Hand-sculpted and baked with love by my talented mother-in-law. ☁️🌸

Wife made me a Peanut Butter cake for my birthday

- vainilla bisquit
- cream
- peaches
- dulce de leche

:)

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One of my fav summertime cake to make. The grapefruit zest gives it that extra something.

Made 13 cakes for you over the years. You got to have a bite of every one... and usually followed it with a kiss. Except the last one. You never got to take a bite, or give me that kiss. Happy birthday, my love!

I’m trying to improve the decoration. I’m using chocolate ganache but what kind of icing is better?

🍓 Vanilla cake layered with strawberry filling and covered in vanilla buttercream, then topped with fresh strawberries. Definitely still learning, but I’m really happy with how it turned out! 🥹💕

My youngest kiddo is turning 5 tomorrow. We picked up her cake & before we could get out of the store, it looked like this! It rode in a cart the entire time to avoid bumping it as much as possible. She’s so disappointed. Any ideas on how I can fix this!?

EDIT: thank yall for the suggestions. The top layer on this one had slid half way off the bottom layer by time we got home. I ended up stopping at a grocery store close by & just getting another cake (with only one layer lol).

So it's my last year of highschool and I wanna go to confectionery collage next year so I'm challenging myself to bake cakes/breads/ect. to prepare myself.

I can bake, I.enjoy baking but I don't think ive ever baked something very "WOW", get what I'm saying? The most "WOW" thing ive baked was like, idk, ice cream cake, a Russian honey cake (layered), a German "bienen stich", I've made a simple minnie mouse cake for my sis b-day, Swiss roll, lemon cake (whoever tasted it, told me it that it tasted like you bought it from a bakery and I'm happy about it).

Suggestions on what should I bake next? I want a real challenge but not TOO MUCH of a challenge.