Dawson’s Princess Cake

This cake was made using my “quickie” Costco sheet cake method.  It’s really the only thing I’ve ever used when I’ve had to use a shape pan from Wilton. This carriage cake was made using a mixture of strawberry cake and pound cake.  It was frosted underneath the piping with white chocolate buttercream–and simple buttercream for the piping.  It matched the picture that it came with exactly.

This would be a case where good lighting is needed when decorating.  As I was piping the pinks the night before I was tempted to pull the dark pink off.  The picture called for hot pink–and all I could see was salmon pink.  But since I was nearly finished with the piping—it would have caused more damage than it was worth–so I left it.  It wasn’t until we were in the sunlight, delivering the cake that I realized that it was, in fact, hot pink.

Methinks it’s time to change the light bulbs!!