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Ombre Iced Delights

13/7/2012

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This week we celebrated my niece's first birthday. So, of course, my sister and I couldn't resist making her a fancy cake. We based our design on this Pink Ombre Swirl Cake by Glorious Treats - super girly and super sweet. For the inside we went for Nigella's Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake Recipe - light but deliciously chocolatey.
Here is our cake in all its frosted glory. We actually used a piping bag, but I just had to take a picture of it next to our vintage Tala Icing Set.
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The icing was delicious - butter, icing sugar and a dash of double cream. The sort you have to keep 'testing'... We used red food colouring, but ended up with a retro peaches and cream look. The ombre effect was simple but striking and the chocolate cake was as good as always.

We had some icing left so we made cupcakes too. My stash of vintage cake stands came in particularly handy - I chose this orange floral three tier stand to match the colour of the cakes.
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Piping icing is definitely addictive (and so is eating the results!). I'd love some suggestions of more icing experiments to try...
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Suzie link
13/7/2012 05:45:07 am

Beautiful :-) I think I'll have to give this a try sometime x

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Sophie from Retrovert link
13/7/2012 05:51:21 am

Thanks Suzie! It was good fun making it.

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