Snowman

I decided to decorate a cake as a snowman.  I used the same red velvet and cream cheese frosting recipes as before (there seems to be a recurring theme with red velvet cake, but I assure you that there will be different types of cakes soon).  I used a snowman head silicone mold that I stumbled upon after Christmas, and I used the basic, 10-inch diameter pan for the body of the snowman.  The cake ended up being a single-layer cake.  I simply dyed the cream cheese frosting orange for the carrot nose and black for the eyes, buttons, and hat.  I placed a small gummy butterfly on the snowman's hat to add a little bit of playful character to the snowman.  To add texture to the snowman and to make the snowman seem as if he were made of actual snowflakes instead of a smooth, unrealistic texture, I placed coconut flakes on top of the cream cheese frosting.  I found that doing so was somewhat difficult, as alot of the coconut flakes wouldn't stick on to the frosting.  In addition, trying to separate the different colors of frosting was very tedious.  Furthermore, when I tried piping on the eyes, mouth, nose, and buttons, the icing wouldn't really stick and kept coming up off of the cake when I lifted my piping bag, so I had to use a toothpick to separate the icing from the tip.

The nex task will be to try to expand my baking skills by baking another type of cake other than red velvet cake.

Total Estimated Time: 3 hours
Total Time Logged: 9.5 hours.

Enjoy the rest of the winter season and I hope you all are as happy as the snowman!