Pexe

As luck would have it; my boyfriend's work is having a cake raffle for Relay for Life as part of their company pic-a-nic this weekend. You can imagine my reaction. I decided to try and do a few smaller-scale cakes and kill multiple birds with one stone: build up some (much needed0 good karma for myself, get a cuople of Threadless entries, hopefully get some money for a good cause, and possibly get my boyfriend an extra day of vacation (1 cake= 1 chance at vac. day).

Since so much of the decorating needs to be done close to when you need to serve it; I decided to try and get as much as possible done before hand. As luck would have it the heat and humidity took a brief break last weekend so I baked a bunch of cake and threw it in the freezer. I also made a big batch of buttercream and a batch of fondant.

For the first entry I decided to go "old school" if you will and break out the buttercream and piping bags, which I haven't done in awhile. I like the look of fondant and it's decorating possibilities much better, and you can always save leftovers, where with buttercream you're stuck w/ tiny bits of tons of colors.

I really liked the look of Pexe and decided to go for it. The cake was peaches and cream (i.e. I threw a box of peach Jello and a couple shots of Triple Sec into a yello cake mix) The buttercream was homemade. I need to find a better buttercream recipe. This one tastes good, but the colors didn't mix well-kind of grainy (which I think can be taken care of with high-ratio shortening) and it was way too soft and not too good in the humidity.

I think the cake looks o.k. if you don't see the shirt next to it, but I can't say I love it.