Jeremy here! It was birthday season for me and Lauren these past few weeks. That means you can have your cake and eat everyone else’s for the whole month of September! Her family has at least 1 birthday each from August-April with most of the celebrations happening in mid to late September, including me. We made a sort of agreement of baking each other’s cakes: I work on hers. She works on mine and we don’t touch the other person’s work.
Her mom and I got to work on a lemon buttercream frosting and colored it tie-dye based on the graffiti cake from Pinterest. Well, we couldn’t actually air-brush paint it like professionals, and since we don’t have fondant other than pink, we settled on painting it with food coloring and making a pattern with colorful fresh blackberries and raspberries. I guess that turns it into a lemon-berry splatter cake with buttercream and berries. It reminded her of doing spin-art as a kid.
The inside was full of berries too. We wanted it to be fluffy and bright.
We made a costly mistake however of leaving it out with only a plastic cover over it for a few days. The whole confection rotted from the inside out with a gagging odor in 3 days time. Nothing disappoints like a festered cake. So, we learned to keep anything with fresh fruit in it in the refrigerator.Â