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13th birthday

By Ashlee Marie 2 Comments

This weekend was the birthday party for last week’s birthday girl. It was fun to do. I got to try out a few new techniques! It was great! Although I’m still having troubles with some of my recipes here in the high altitude of UT. My white cake fell, both of them. So I used the bottom half of both cakes to get the right height. I was able to use parchment paper to get more height out of my pan, and I think the layers look better carved out of a 4 inch tall cake instead of a 3 inch tall cake.

topsy turvy striped cake

Also after the cake was done I used my steamer to make the fondant get all shiny! What do you think? It won’t look right with every style of cake, but it worked really well for this cake! I have to say I LOVE this cake. Anyway, Happy Birthday Emily, I hope your sleepover is a blast!

fondant topsy turvy birthday cake

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Ashlee Prisbrey is a self taught cake decorator and home chef turned blogger turned youtuber. On her blog and youtube channel she shares cake decorating tutorials, from scratch recipes, and themed party food (cause for her parties are all about the food). In addition to blogging and videos she travels around the country speaking at blog conferences. Last year she competed on Food Network, the Halloween Baking championship, a dream come true! Ashlee loves empowering women and moms, in the kitchen, in blogging or in life. Her motto is nothing is too hard with the right tips and tricks.
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  1. Julie

    May 25, 2011 at 1:01 pm

    I actually followed the link from your shiny LEGO cake, which is what I am trying to do. How do you use the steamer to get the cake shiny?

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    • Ashlee

      May 31, 2011 at 12:57 pm

      oh gosh, thats a great question, you have to make sure that you use the steamer on the SIDE of the cake, never from the top, on the top you might drip onto the cake. I tend to tilt the cake to get the top and hard to reach places. Make sure you don’t get too close, or you could also cause drips. And keep the steamer moving all the time. I’ll add it of my list of to do tutorials! thanks for the great question!

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