Are you sick of the ombre` trend? We
get SO many emails about this trend I literally can't not talk about it (double
negative schouble negative).
Apparently I am not, because I just
did nude ombre` nails on myself last night!
Here Sonia tried the ombre` cake that
we have all been seeing all over Pinterest. She decided to make this cute
little treat for her coworkers for Valentine's and as a bonus she could show off her mad skills!
Check it out!
The Original
Fun right?! And such
a fancy frosting job too! This fun sight Eddie
Ross , which I immediately thought of as "Martha Stewart-esque", is
actually quite Martha-esque. He used to be one of the head designers for Martha
Stewart Magazine, and is now on his own with several returning articles in different
magazines around the country. Also I didn't even realize it till now, but I just
a read an article about him in Country Living! I LOVE Country
Living magazine. Like really, love! Anyone else with me?! Anyway we will
leave the biography for another time yes? The cake!
I love this cake, it
just screams "EAT ME!!"!
Here is Sonia's take
on it...
The Pinstrosity
Here is her story:
"...I
can say in my own defense that I never looked at any of the instructions. In
fact, I just went out and bought 3 white box cakes and 4 cans of vanilla
frosting, and thought "what the heck, can't be that hard".
So away I
went with the first box/layer of my cake. I just squeezed the heck out of the
little tube of hot pink gel food coloring until I had a nice shade of dark
pink. Baked it as instructed on the back of the box. I wish I would have taken
a picture of the first layer coming out of the pan. My first failure of the
day. The dang thing stuck around some of the sides leaving my bottom layer weak
from the get go. I figured I would just use some of that icing to
"glue" those pieces back together.
For the next box/layer,
I squeezed about half of the gel color into the cake. Looked a lot lighter and
what I thought was a good in between pink shade. This layer came out great!
Didn't stick at all as I made sure to spray the non stick spray on every square
centimeter of the pan this time twice.
Now for the
final box/layer I squeezed that tube of gel color again. Only the color of the
last cake looked very similar to the second cake. So I squeezed what I had left
in that little tube and tried to get a different shade of pink. The cake turned
out great with no sticking at all.
So, I began
my layers.
Spreading
that icing nice and thick using what I had to glue back together the pieces of
cake/layer one and in between and on top of the cake.
Now here is
the epic fail of the entire project.
The dang
thing was so heavy and that first layer that I had so easily glued back
together just wouldn't hold up. And so the leaning tower of Ombre` began to
lean to the right.
We had quite
the laugh at how ugly the dang thing turned out. I decided there was no way I
was taking this ugly leaning mess to work and show my co-workers what an epic
fail I had made for them. So my sweet husband decided he would give it a taste.
This is when I realized my Ombre` cake was really just 3 layers of pink cake
two of which were the exact shade of pink! Ugh. At least he thought it tasted
great. "
So what happened?
Well unfortunately for Sonia, this one has not instructions. This recipe is just
one of those picture projects. I know some of us do ok with those, but others
don't. Everyone has a different learning style, and when a recipe is involved I
think it always turns out better if it is written word for word.
Now the Eddie Ross
cake has 6 layers. One the one hand that would be easier to tell a subtle difference
in colors from top to bottom, however on the other hand it would be difficult
to make slight changes in food coloring amount for the batters!
On the original pin,
he has the varying different shades of pink batter, bakes them, lets them cool
completely and then shaves the top and bottom off all the cakes to 1. Make them
thinner for layering. and 2. Make them have even flat surfaces for easier frosting.
I don't think Sonia did this which may have contributed to her leaning tower of
ombre`.
Another thing, if her
first layer came out pretty awful like she said, she may have been able to
salvage it by making it the top layer instead, and shaving off what makes it
uneven. Once it's frosted no one would notice. The ombre` would then just start
with dark at the top and light at the bottom. Just a small deviation.
To make her ombre`
come out more apparent she may need to really make the first layer dark pink.
The middle layer a medium pink like she had, and the last layer just a slight
hue of pink. All though I really don't think her cake colors came out bad at
all (I think it looks nice!), her leaning cake is a problem. I did a layer cake
for Thanksgiving, and it definitely takes some practice to get those layers to
sit even!
As for Eddie Ross's
frosting job, he makes it looks super easy, anyone want to test it out and let
us know how it goes?!
Anyone have any luck with the Ombre` Cake?! Let us know!
Happy Wednesday Pinstrosipeeps!
