A Basket of Fruitiness

Hope y'all had a good weekend. I certainly did from all the good eats in the city of New York, and another fun day working at Silk Cakes Studio.

Briefly catch up on what we did last week; we assembled angel's food cake with strawberry buttercream as filling. Did the best we can to square off the cake to prepare for basket weave piping. The finish product may look more difficult than what it is, but with Chef Cynthia's instruction, it was only the matter of eye-hand coordination and lots of patience.

A Basket of Fruitness assembily... The Base: 3 layers of angel food cake, 2 layers of strawberry swiss meringue buttercream.

Choose colors and pipe,

Add shell and rope borders,

And now we topped the cake with fresh strawberries, blueberries and black berries.

There you have it, folks! Now what? Eat it of course. But those of you who know me for a while can probably figure out exactly what I did with my cakes. Yes, I gave it away, as always. But instead of the firemen, I pick the Roosevelt Island Public Safety Department. :) Hope they enjoy it!